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| Category: | General - Books | By: | Addison Wesley US |
| More info: | www.awprofessional.c... | Author(s): | Diomidis Spinellis |
| Pages: | 494 | Year of publication: | 2003 |
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You've got a day to add a new
feature in a 34,000-line program: Where do you
start?; How can you understand and simplify an
inscrutable piece of code?; Where do you start
when disentangling a complicated build process?; How do
you comprehend code that appears to be doing
five things in parallel? You may read code
because you have to - to fix it,
inspect it, or improve it. You may read
code the way an engineer 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.
The CD-ROM contains source code and examples.