Andy Oram

Beautiful Code

Ed. by Andy Oram & Greg Wilson

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 in its construction, and when it was important to break rules.

This book contains 33 chapters contributed by Brian Kernighan, Karl Fogel, Jon Bentley, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael Feathers, Alberto Savoia, Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry S. Warren, Jr., Ashish Gulhati, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek, Adam Kolawa, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Diomidis Spinellis, Andrew Kuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, Ronald Mak, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho and Rafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Simon Peyton Jones, Kent Dybvig, William Otte and Douglas C. Schmidt, Andrew Patzer, Andreas Zeller, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Arun Mehta, TV Raman, Laura Wingerd and Christopher Seiwald, and Brian Hayes.Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 180mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 996g
• ISBN-13: 9780596510046
• ISBN-10: 0596510047
• Artikelnr.: 22508125

Autorenporträt

Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in free software and open source technologies. His work for O'Reilly includes the first books ever published commercially in the United States on Linux, and the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer. His modest programming and system administration skills are mostly self-taught. Greg Wilson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked on high-performance scientific computing, data visualization, and computer security. He is the author of Data Crunching and Practical Parallel Programming (MIT Press, 1995), and is a contributing editor at Doctor Dobb's Journal, and an adjunct professor in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:
Foreword by Greg Wilson
Preface
1. A Regular Expression Matcher
by Brian Kernighan
The Practice of Programming
Implementation
Discussion
Alternatives
Building on It
Conclusion
2. Subversion's Delta Editor: Interface As Ontology
by Karl Fogel
Version Control and Tree Transformation
Expressing Tree Differences
The Delta Editor Interface
But Is It Art?
Abstraction As a Spectator Sport
Conclusions
3. The Most Beautiful Code I Never Wrote
by Jon Bentley
The Most Beautiful Code I Ever Wrote
More and More with Less and Less
Perspective
What Is Writing?
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
4. Finding Things
by Tim Bray
On Time
Problem: Weblog Data
Problem: Who Fetched What, When?
Search in the Large
Conclusion
5. Correct, Beautiful, Fast (in That Order): Lessons from Designing XML Verifiers
by Elliotte Rusty Harold
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
6. Framework for Integrated Test: Beauty Through Fragility
by Michael Feathers
An Acceptance Testing Framework in Three Classes
The Challenge of Framework Design
An Open Framework
How Simple Can an HTML Parser Be?
Conclusion
7. Beautiful Tests
by Alberto Savoia
That Pesky Binary Search
Introducing JUnit
Nailing Binary Search
Conclusion
8. On-the-Fly Code Generation for Image Processing
by Charles Petzold
9. Top Down Operator Precedence
by Douglas Crockford
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
10. The Quest for an Accelerated Population Count
by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
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
11. Secure Communication: The Technology Of Freedom
by Ashish Gulhati
The Heart of the Start
Untangling the Complexity of Secure Messaging
Usability Is the Key
The Foundation
The Test Suite
The Functioning Prototype
Clean Up, Plug In, Rock On . . .
Hacking in the Himalayas
The Invisible Hand Moves
Speed Does Matter
Communications Privacy for Individual Rights
Hacking the Civilization
12. Growing Beautiful Code in BioPerl
by Lincoln Stein
BioPerl and the Bio::Graphics Module
The Bio::Graphics Design Process
Extending Bio::Graphics
Conclusions and Lessons Learned
13. The Design of the Gene Sorter
by Jim Kent
The User Interface of the Gene Sorter
Maintaining a Dialog with the User over the Web
A Little Polymorphism Can Go a Long Way
Filtering Down to Just the Relevant Genes
Theory of Beautiful Code in the Large
Conclusion
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Rezensionen

"In Beautiful Code präsentieren Andy Oram und Greg Wilson 33 Beiträge von Softwareentwicklern. [...] Dieses Buch bietet eine gute Grundlage für anregende Diskussionen über "guten" Code, Schönheit und wahrscheinlich auch Qualität von Software." javamagazin, Januar 2008 "Kann ein Code schön sein? Darauf kannst du wetten! In dieser Sammlung von Artikeln zum Thema wird dem Leser die Schönheit von Code, bzw. dem Prozess des Programmierens/der Softwareentwicklung näher gebracht. [...]" -- gungfu.de, November 2007