{"product_id":"the-practice-of-programming-addisonwesley-professional-computing-series","title":"The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith 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  Java  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  Kernighan and Pike have distilled years of experience writing programs  teaching  and working with other programmers to create this book. Anyone who writes software will profit from the principles and guidance in The Practice of Programming.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983698292789,"sku":"ByrdShop_020161586X","price":69.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780201615869.jpg?v=1770806639","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-practice-of-programming-addisonwesley-professional-computing-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}