Beautiful code / edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oram, Andrew, author.

Contributor:

Oram, Andrew

Wilson, Greg, 1963-

Series:

Theory in practice (Sebastopol, California)

Theory in practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software.

Software engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (620 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Subtitle on cover: leading programmers explain how they think

Place of Publication:

North Sebastapol, California ; Farnham : O'Reilly, 2007

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. You will be able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts to see problems through their eyes. This is not simply another design patterns book, or another software engineering treatise on the right and wrong way to do things. The authors think aloud as they work through their project's architecture, the tradeoffs made i

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; A Regular Expression Matcher; The Practice of Programming; Implementation; Discussion; Alternatives; Building on It; Conclusion; Subversion's Delta Editor: Interface As Ontology; Version Control and Tree Transformation; Expressing Tree Differences; The Delta Editor Interface; But Is It Art?; Abstraction As a Spectator Sport; Conclusions; The Most Beautiful Code I Never Wrote; The Most Beautiful Code I Ever Wrote; More and More with Less and Less

PerspectiveA Bonus Analysis; What Is Writing?; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Finding Things; On Time; Problem: Weblog Data; Regular Expressions; Putting Regular Expressions to Work; Content-Addressable Storage; Time to Optimize?; Problem: Who Fetched What, When?; Binary Search; Binary Search Trade-offs; Escaping the Loop; Search in the Large; Searching with Postings; Ranking Results; Searching the Web; Conclusion; Correct, Beautiful, Fast (in That Order): Lessons from Designing XML Verifiers; The Role of XML Validation; The Problem; Version 1: The Naïve Implementation

Version 2: Imitating the BNF Grammar O(N)Version 3: First Optimization O(log N); Version 4: Second Optimization: Don't Check Twice; Version 5: Third Optimization O(1); Version 6: Fourth Optimization: Caching; The Moral of the Story; Framework for Integrated Test: Beauty Through Fragility; An Acceptance Testing Framework in Three Classes; The Challenge of Framework Design; An Open Framework; How Simple Can an HTML Parser Be?; Conclusion; Beautiful Tests; That Pesky Binary Search; Introducing JUnit; Nailing Binary Search; Smoking Allowed (and Encouraged); Pushing the Boundaries

Random Acts of TestingPerformance Anxiety; Conclusion; On-the-Fly Code Generation for Image Processing; Top Down Operator Precedence; JavaScript; Symbol Table; Tokens; Precedence; Expressions; Infix Operators; Prefix Operators; Assignment Operators; Constants; Scope; Statements; Functions; Array and Object Literals; Things to Do and Think About; The Quest for an Accelerated Population Count; Basic Methods; Divide and Conquer; Other Methods; Sum and Difference of Population Counts of Two Words; Comparing the Population Counts of Two Words; Counting the 1-Bits in an Array; Applications

Secure Communication: The Technology Of FreedomThe Heart of the Start; Untangling the Complexity of Secure Messaging; Usability Is the Key; The Foundation; Design Goals and Decisions; Basic System Design; The Test Suite; The Functioning Prototype; Clean Up, Plug In, Rock On...; Revamping the Mail Store; Persistence of Decryption; Hacking in the Himalayas; Securing the Code; Auditing Crypt::GPG; The Invisible Hand Moves; Speed Does Matter; Communications Privacy for Individual Rights; Hacking the Civilization; Growing Beautiful Code in BioPerl; BioPerl and the Bio::Graphics Module

Example of Bio::Graphics Output

Notes:

"Leading programmers explain how they think" -- front cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on print version record

ISBN:

9780596515980

0596515987

9780596554675

0596554672

OCLC:

609841011