The Practice of Programming (Paperback)

Brian W. Kernighan

ISBN 10: 020161586X / ISBN 13: 9780201615869

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional, Harlow, 1999

About this Item

Paperback. This book was written primarily for anyone who wants to hone their programming skills: students who have taken a programming course or two; professional programmers using C, C++, or Java; software development managers; and anyone else who cares about programming. That said, the generation of programmers who learned C from "K&R" and Unix from "K&P" will want to check out the advice offered from the people who wrote the book. 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 Kernighan and Pike have distilled years of experience writing programs, teaching, and working with other programmers to create this book. Anyone who writes software will profit from the principles and guidance in "The Practice of Programming," 020161586XB04062001 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Practice of Programming (Paperback)
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, Harlow
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020161586X
• ISBN 13: 9780201615869
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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

Kernighan and Pike have distilled years of experience writing programs, teaching, and working with other programmers to create this book. Anyone who writes software will profit from the principles and guidance in The Practice of Programming.

About the Author

Brian W. Kernighan works in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He is Consulting Editor for Addison-Wesley's Professional Computing Series and the author, with Dennis Ritchie, of The C Programming Language.

Rob Pike works in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He was a lead architect and implementer of the Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems. His research focuses on software that makes it easier for people to write software.

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