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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 informa

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Author

Kernighan, Brian W., Pike, Rob

Publisher

Pearson Education Limited (US titles);Addison-Wesley

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525501374

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Language Learning, Mathematics

Rating

4.1 / 5 (1,496 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14