The Practice of Programming

The Practice of Programming
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++, lava, 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 information hiding to control the interactions
between components
style: writing code that works well and is a pleasure to read
notation: choosing languages and tools that let the machine do more of the
work
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