The Practice of Programming

About This eBook
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
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?
Supplementary Reading
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
Supplementary Reading
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
Supplementary Reading
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
Supplementary Reading
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
Supplementary Reading
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
Supplementary Reading
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
Supplementary Reading
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
Supplementary Reading
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
Supplementary Reading
Epilogue
Appendix: Collected Rules
Style
Interfaces
Debugging
Testing
Performance
Portability
Index