Find the Bug

A Book of Incorrect Programms

Adam Barr - Collection Programming

306 pages, parution le 18/11/2004

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Résumé

50 exercises to sharpen your programming skills, while having a little fun!

The contents of this unique book may be playful, but the underlying point is a serious one: Skilled programmers must be able to examine code-written by themselves or by others- and mentally debug it. Debugging tools will get you only so far; certain errors will sneak past even the best of them. You must become your own best defense against hidden mistakes and nasty surprises. You must find the bug before it finds you.

The book contains 50 programs, in one of five languages (C, Java, Python, Perl, and x86 assembly language]. Each program contains a single, hard-to-detect but realistic bug-no tricky gotchas. To find these bugs, you have to think like your processor and anticipate exactly how the code will behave, even without running it. The author provides hints to get you started, as well as any needed language background. He shows you how to analyze programs, and how to uncover their internal logic. In the end, he exposes and explains the bugs.

Practice of this sort not only will improve your debugging skills, but ultimately will help you to write cleaner code in the first place!

Find the Bug is inspired by coding and debugging challenges used by Microsoft in interviewing new programmers. It is an indispensable resource for all working programmers, maintainers, testers, quality specialists, and everyone involved in code reviews.

L'auteur - Adam Barr

ADAM BARR is a consultant based in Redmond, WA. For ten years, he was a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corporation, where he worked on products ranging fromWindows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP to Microsoft Interactive Television and Softimage Digital Studio. He has exceptional experience in C programming andWindows NT kernel development and debugging. He is author of Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: What I Learned in Ten Years as a Microsoft Programmer.

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Preface
Bug Classification
Tips on Walking Through Code
C.
Python
Java
Perl
x86 Assembly Language
Appendix A. Classification of Bugs
Appendix B. Index of Bugs by Type
Appendix C. References
Index

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Adam Barr
Collection	Programming
Parution	18/11/2004
Nb. de pages	306
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	493g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780321223913
ISBN13	978-0-321-22391-3