Exercises in programming style

✍ Scribed by Cristina Videira Lopes

• Publisher: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Exercises in Programming Style consists of over 30 renditions of the same simple program written in various programming styles. The book illustrates the richness of human computational thought, and the teachings that have been accumulated during more than fifty years of computer programming. These teachings are scattered around, and are mostly passed to new generations of programmers by mentoring and self-teaching. The book presents this knowledge in a package that can be understood and referenced by all programming professionals and students, so that they have a more global vision of the conceptual tools at their disposal"-- �Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Historical Good Old Times Go Forth Basic Styles Monolithic Cookbook Pipeline Code Golf Function Composition Infinite Mirror Kick Forward The One Objects and Object Interaction Things Letterbox Closed Maps Abstract Things Hollywood Bulletin Board Reflection and Metaprogramming Introspective Reflective Aspects Plugins Adversity Constructivist Tantrum Passive Aggressive Declared Intentions Quarantine Data-Centric Persistent Tables Spreadsheet Lazy Rivers Concurrency Actors Dataspaces Map Reduce Double Map Reduce Interactivity Trinity Restful
Abstract: "Exercises in Programming Style consists of over 30 renditions of the same simple program written in various programming styles. The book illustrates the richness of human computational thought, and the teachings that have been accumulated during more than fifty years of computer programming. These teachings are scattered around, and are mostly passed to new generations of programmers by mentoring and self-teaching. The book presents this knowledge in a package that can be understood and referenced by all programming professionals and students, so that they have a more global vision of the conceptual tools at their disposal"