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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Brian W. Kernighan; Rob Pike is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) about?
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
Who reads The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brian W. Kernighan; Rob Pike
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley Professional
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780133133431
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Computer Science, Mathematics
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (1,496 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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