Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective (Effective Software Development Series) (v. 1)

Diomidis Spinellis, Addison-Wesley Professional

ISBN:0201799405, Edition: , 2003-06-06

Price: $59.99

• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• 'Effective' Software Development Series
• Figures
• Tables
• Foreword
• Preface
  • Supplementary Material
  • Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Why and How to Read Code
  • 1.2 How to Read This Book
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 2. Basic Programming Elements
  • 2.1 A Complete Program
  • 2.2 Functions and Global Variables
  • 2.3 'while' Loops, Conditions, and Blocks
  • 2.4 'switch' Statements
  • 2.5 'for' Loops
  • 2.6 'break' and 'continue' Statements
  • 2.7 Character and Boolean Expressions
  • 2.8 'goto' Statements
  • 2.9 Refactoring in the Small
  • 2.10 'do' Loops and Integer Expressions
  • 2.11 Control Structures Revisited
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 3. Advanced C Data Types
  • 3.1 Pointers
  • 3.2 Structures
  • 3.3 Unions
  • 3.4 Dynamic Memory Allocation
  • 3.5 'typedef' Declarations
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 4. C Data Structures
  • 4.1 Vectors
  • 4.2 Matrices and Tables
  • 4.3 Stacks
  • 4.4 Queues
  • 4.5 Maps
  • 4.6 Sets
  • 4.7 Linked Lists
  • 4.8 Trees
  • 4.9 Graphs
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 5. Advanced Control Flow
  • 5.1 Recursion
  • 5.2 Exceptions
  • 5.3 Parallelism
  • 5.4 Signals
  • 5.5 Nonlocal Jumps
  • 5.6 Macro Substitution
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 6. Tackling Large Projects
  • 6.1 Design and Implementation Techniques
  • 6.2 Project Organization
  • 6.3 The Build Process and Makefiles
  • 6.4 Configuration
  • 6.5 Revision Control
  • 6.6 Project-Specific Tools
  • 6.7 Testing
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 7. Coding Standards and Conventions
  • 7.1 File Names and Organization
  • 7.2 Indentation
  • 7.3 Formatting
  • 7.4 Naming Conventions
  • 7.5 Programming Practices
  • 7.6 Process Standards
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 8. Documentation
  • 8.1 Documentation Types
  • 8.2 Reading Documentation
  • 8.3 Documentation Problems
  • 8.4 Additional Documentation Sources
  • 8.5 Common Open-Source Documentation Formats
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 9. Architecture
  • 9.1 System Structures
  • 9.2 Control Models
  • 9.3 Element Packaging
  • 9.4 Architecture Reuse
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 10. Code-Reading Tools
  • 10.1 Regular Expressions
  • 10.2 The Editor as a Code Browser
  • 10.3 Code Searching with 'grep'
  • 10.4 Locating File Differences
  • 10.5 Roll Your Own Tool
  • 10.6 The Compiler as a Code-Reading Tool
  • 10.7 Code Browsers and Beautifiers
  • 10.8 Runtime Tools
  • 10.9 Nonsoftware Tools
• Chapter 11. A Complete Example
  • 11.1 Overview
  • 11.2 Attack Plan
  • 11.3 Code Reuse
  • 11.4 Testing and Debugging
  • 11.5 Documentation
  • 11.6 Observations
• Appendix A. Outline of the Code Provided
• Appendix B. Source Code Credits
• Appendix C. Referenced Source Files
• Appendix D. Source Code Licenses
  • D.1 ACE
  • D.2 Apache
  • D.3 Argo'UML'
  • D.4 DemoGL
  • D.5 hsqldb
  • D.6 Net'BSD'
  • D.7 OpenCL
  • D.8 Perl
  • D.9 qtchat
  • D.10 socket
  • D.11 vcf
  • D.12 X Window System
• Appendix E. Maxims for Reading Code
  • Chapter 1 : Introduction
  • Chapter 2 : Basic Programming Elements
  • Chapter 3 : Advanced C Data Types
  • Chapter 4 : C Data Structures
  • Chapter 5 : Advanced Control Flow
  • Chapter 6 : Tackling Large Projects
  • Chapter 7 : Coding Standards and Conventions
  • Chapter 8 : Documentation
  • Chapter 9 : Architecture
  • Chapter 10 : Code-Reading Tools
  • Chapter 11 : A Complete Example
• Bibliography
• Epigraph Credits
• Colophon
• CD-ROM Warranty