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The practice of programming

Author: Brian W Kernighan; Rob Pike
Publisher: Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley, ©1999.
Series: Addison-Wesley professional computing series.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Kernighan, Brian W.
Practice of programming.
Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley, ©1999
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Brian W Kernighan; Rob Pike
ISBN: 020161586X 9780201615869
OCLC Number: 40595608
Description: xii, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Ch. 1. Style --
Ch. 2. Algorithms and Data Structures --
Ch. 3. Design and Implementation --
Ch. 4. Interfaces --
Ch. 5. Debugging --
Ch. 6. Testing --
Ch. 7. Performance --
Ch. 8. Portability --
Ch. 9. Notation --
App. Collected Rules.
Series Title: Addison-Wesley professional computing series.
Responsibility: Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike.

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Helping make individual programmers more effective and productive, this book contains practical advice and real-world examples in C, C++, Java, and a variety of special-purpose languages.  Read more...

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