The practice of programming

Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike - Collection Professional computing

256 pages, parution le 23/02/1999

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Résumé

With the same insight and authority that made their book The Unix Programming Environment a classic, Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike have written The Practice of Programming to help make individual programmers more effective and productive.

The practice of programming is more than just writing code. Programmers must also assess tradeoffs, choose among design alternatives, debug and test, improve performance, and maintain software written by themselves and others. At the same time, they must be concerned with issues like compatibility, robustness, and reliability, while meeting specifications.

The Practice of Programming covers all these topics, and more. This book is full of practical advice and real-world examples in C, C++, Java, and a variety of special-purpose languages. It includes chapters on:

Debugging: finding bugs quickly and methodically
Testing: guaranteeing that software works correctly and reliably
Performance: making programs faster and more compact
Portability: ensuring that programs run everywhere without change
Design: balancing goals and constraints to decide which algorithms and data structures are best
Interfaces: using abstraction and information hiding to control the interactions between components
Style: writing code that works well and is a pleasure to read
Notation: choosing languages and tools that let the machine do more of the work

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Style: 1.1 Names; 1.2 Expressions and Statements; 1.3 Consistency and Idioms; 1.4 Function Macros; 1.5 Magic Numbers; 1.6 Comments; 1.7 Why Bother?
Chapter 2: Algorithms and Data Structures: 2.1 Searching; 2.2 Sorting; 2.3 Libraries; 2.4 A Java Quicksort; 2.5 O-Notation; 2.6 Growing Arrays; 2.7 Lists; 2.8 Trees; 2.9 Hash Tables; 2.10 Summary
Chapter 3: Design and Implementation: 3.1 The Markov Chain Algorithm; 3.2 Data Structure Alternatives; 3.3 Building the Data Structure in C; 3.4 Generating Output; 3.5 Java; 3.6 C++; 3.7 Awk and Perl; 3.8 Performance; 3.9 Lessons
Chapter 4: Interfaces: 4.1 Comma-Separated Values; 4.2 A Prototype Library; 4.3 A Library for Others; 4.4 A C++ Implementation; 4.5 Interface Principles; 4.6 Resource Management; 4.7 Abort, Retry, Fail?; 4.8 User Interfaces
Chapter 5: Debugging: 5.1 Debuggers; 5.2 Good Clues, Easy Bugs; 5.3 No Clues, Hard Bugs; 5.4 Last Resorts; 5.5 Non-reproducible Bugs; 5.6 Debugging Tools; 5.7 Other People's Bugs; 5.8 Summary
Chapter 6: Testing: 6.1 Test as You Write the Code; 6.2 Systematic Testing; 6.3 Test Automation; 6.4 Test Scaffolds; 6.5 Stress Tests; 6.6 Tips for Testing; 6.7 Who Does the Testing?; 6.8 Testing the Markov Program; 6.9 Summary
Chapter 7: Performance: 7.1 A Bottleneck; 7.2 Timing and Profiling; 7.3 Strategies for Speed; 7.4 Tuning the Code; 7.5 Space Efficiency; 7.6 Estimation; 7.7 Summary
Chapter 8: Portability: 8.1 Language; 8.2 Headers and Libraries; 8.3 Program Organization; 8.4 Isolation; 8.5 Data Exchange; 8.6 Byte Order; 8.7 Portability and Upgrade; 8.8 Internationalization; 8.9 Summary
Chapter 9: Notation: 9.1 Formatting Data; 9.2 Regular Expressions; 9.3 Programmable Tools; 9.4 Interpreters, Compilers, and Virtual Machines; 9.5 Programs that Write Programs; 9.6 Using Macros to Generate Code; 9.7 Compiling on the Fly
Epilogue
Appendix: Collected Rules
Index

L'auteur - Brian W. Kernighan

Brian W. Kernighan Editeur consultant chez Addison Wesley pour les collections Informatiques professionnelles, il est l'auteur, avec Dennis Ritchie, du célèbre "The C Programming Language", best-seller depuis 1988. Il travaille en outre au Centre de recherche des sciences informatiques des laboratoires Bell.

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Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
Collection	Professional computing
Parution	23/02/1999
Nb. de pages	256
EAN13	9780201615869
ISBN13	978-0-201-61586-9