Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective
by Diomidis Spinellis 
Effective Software Development Series
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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 show more 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 show lessTags
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Diomidis Spinellis professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology, AUEB, has lectured extensively on developing and debugging complex systems. He has worked at Google, as site reliability engineering senior software engineer; has served on the FreeBSD committers' team; has contributed code that ships with OS X and BSD Unix; and show more has developed widely used open source software, such as UMLGraph and CScout. His books Code Reading (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and Code Quality (Addison-Wesley, 2006) each earned a Software Development Productivity Award. Spinellis is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE. show less
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- Анализ программного кода на примере проектов Open Source
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- Technology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 005.1 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Artificial Intelligence/Virtual Reality Software development
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- QA76.6 .S675 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science
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