Code reading : the open source perspective /

Code reading : the open source perspective /

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Author / Creator:Spinellis, Diomidis.
Imprint:Boston, MA : Addison-Wesley, ©2003.
Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 495 pages)
Language:English
Series:Effective software development series
Effective software development series.
Subject:
Computer programming.
Coding theory.
Coding theory
Computer programming
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13594222
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ISBN:9780201799408
0201799405
0201799405
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-457) and indexes.
Print version record.
Summary:If you are a programmer, you need this book. You've got a day to add a new feature in a 34,000-line program: Where do you start? Page 333 How can you understand and simplify an inscrutable piece of code? Page 39 Where do you start when disentangling a complicated build process? Page 167 How do you comprehend code that appears to be doing five things in parallel? Page 132 You may read code because you have to--to fix it, inspect it, or improve it. You may read code the way an engineer examines a machine--to discover what makes it tick. Or you may read code because you are scavenging--looking for material to reuse. Code-reading requires its own set of skills, and the ability to determine which technique you use when is crucial. In this indispensable book, Diomidis Spinellis uses more than 600 real-world examples to show you how to identify good (and bad) code: how to read it, what to look for, and how to use this knowledge to improve your own code. Fact: If you make a habit of reading good code, you will write better code yourself. 0201799405B02032003.
Other form:Print version: Spinellis, Diomidis. Code reading. Boston, MA : Addison-Wesley, ©2003 0201799405 9780201799408
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Why and How to Read Code
  • Code as Literature
  • Code as Exemplar
  • Maintenance
  • Evolution
  • Reuse
  • Inspections
  • How to Read this Book
  • Typographical Conventions
  • Diagrams
  • Exercises
  • Supplementary Material
  • Tools
  • Outline
  • The Great Language Debate
  • 2. Basic Programming Elements
  • A Complete Program
  • Functions and Global Variables
  • While, Conditions, Blocks
  • Switch
  • For
  • Break, Continue
  • Character and Boolean Expressions
  • Goto
  • Refactoring in the Small
  • Do, Integer Expressions
  • Control Structures Revisited
  • 3. Advanced C Data Types
  • Pointers
  • Linked Data Structures
  • Dynamic Allocation of Data Structures
  • Call by Reference
  • Data Element Access
  • Arrays as Arguments and Results
  • Function Pointers
  • Pointer as an Alias
  • Pointers and Strings
  • Direct Memory Access
  • Structures
  • Grouping Together Data Elements
  • Returning Multiple Data Elements from a Function
  • Mapping the Organization of Data
  • Programming in an Object-Oriented Fashion
  • Unions
  • Efficient Use of Storage
  • Implementing Polymorphism
  • Accessing Different Internal Representations
  • Dynamic Memory Allocation
  • Managing Free Memory
  • Structures with Dynamically-Allocated Arrays
  • Typedef Declarations
  • 4. C Data Structures
  • Vector
  • Matrix and Table
  • Stack
  • Queue
  • Map
  • Hash Tables
  • Set
  • Linked List
  • Tree
  • Graph
  • Node Storage
  • Edge Representation
  • Edge Storage
  • Graph Properties
  • Hidden Structures
  • Other Representations
  • 5. Advanced Control Flow
  • Recursion
  • Exceptions
  • Parallelism
  • Hardware and Software Parallelism
  • Control Models
  • Thread Implementations
  • Signals
  • Nonlocal Jumps
  • Macro Substitution
  • 6. Tackling Large Projects
  • Design and Implementation Techniques
  • Project Organization
  • The Build Process and Makefiles
  • Configuration
  • Revision Control
  • Project-Specific Tools
  • Testing
  • 7. Coding Standards and Conventions
  • File Names and Organization
  • Indentation
  • Formatting
  • Naming Conventions
  • Programming Practices
  • Process Standards
  • 8. Documentation
  • Documentation Types
  • Reading Documentation
  • Documentation Problems
  • Additional Documentation Sources
  • Common Open-Source Documentation Formats
  • 9. Architecture
  • System Structures
  • Centralized Repository and Distributed Approaches
  • Data-Flow
  • Object-Oriented
  • Layered
  • Hierarchies
  • Slicing
  • Control Models
  • Event-Driven Systems
  • System Manager
  • State Transition
  • Element Packaging
  • Module
  • Namespace
  • Object
  • Generic Implementation
  • Abstract Data Type
  • Library
  • Process and Filter
  • Component
  • Data Repository
  • Architecture Reuse
  • Frameworks
  • Code Wizards
  • Design Patterns
  • Domain-Specific Architectures
  • 10. Code-Reading Too

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