Code Reading The Open Source Perspective

bull; 600 real-world examples that teach you how to identify good (and bad!) code bull; Identifies what exactly to look for when reading code, and how to improve code based on what you read bull; The latest in the excellent tradition of Addison-Wesley "programmer self help" books!

Diomidis Spinellis has been developing the concepts presented in this book since 1985, while also writing groundbreaking software applications and working on multimillion-line code bases. Spinellis holds an M.Eng. degree in software engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science from Imperial College London. Currently he is an associate professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Why and How to Read Code
Code as Literature
Code as Exemplar
Maintenance
Evolution
Reuse
Inspections
How to Read this Book
Typographical Conventions
Diagrams
Exercises
Supplementary Material
Tools
Outline
The Great Language Debate
Basic Programming Elements
A Complete Program
Functions and Global Variables
While, Conditions, Blocks
Switch
For
Break, Continue
Character and Boolean Expressions
Goto
Refactoring in the Small
Do, Integer Expressions
Control Structures Revisited
Advanced C Data Types
Pointers
Linked Data Structures
Dynamic Allocation of Data Structures
Call by Reference
Data Element Access
Arrays as Arguments and Results
Function Pointers
Pointer as an Alias
Pointers and Strings
Direct Memory Access
Structures
Grouping Together Data Elements
Returning Multiple Data Elements from a Function
Mapping the Organization of Data
Programming in an Object-Oriented Fashion
Unions
Efficient Use of Storage
Implementing Polymorphism
Accessing Different Internal Representations
Dynamic Memory Allocation
Managing Free Memory
Structures with Dynamically-Allocated Arrays
Typedef Declarations
C Data Structures
Vector
Matrix and Table
Stack
Queue
Map
Hash Tables
Set
Linked List
Tree
Graph
Node Storage
Edge Representation
Edge Storage
Graph Properties
Hidden Structures
Other Representations
Advanced Control Flow
Recursion
Exceptions
Parallelism
Hardware and Software Parallelism
Control Models
Thread Implementations
Signals
Nonlocal Jumps
Macro Substitution
Tackling Large Projects
Design and Implementation Techniques
Project Organization
The Build Process and Makefiles
Configuration
Revision Control
Project-Specific Tools
Testing
Coding Standards and Conventions
File Names and Organization
Indentation
Formatting
Naming Conventions
Programming Practices
Process Standards
Documentation
Documentation Types
Reading Documentation
Documentation Problems
Additional Documentation Sources
Common Open-Source Documentation Formats
Architecture
System Structures
Centralized Repository and Distributed Approaches
Data-Flow
Object-Oriented
Layered
Hierarchies
Slicing
Control Models
Event-Driven Systems
System Manager
State Transition
Element Packaging
Module
Namespace
Object
Generic Implementation
Abstract Data Type
Library
Process and Filter
Component
Data Repository
Architecture Reuse
Frameworks
Code Wizards
Design Patterns
Domain-Specific Architectures
Code-Reading Too
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