Programming on Purpose Essays on Programming Design

Name: Programming on Purpose Essays on Programming Design
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ISBN: 9780137213740

ISBN-10: 0137213743

ISBN-13: 9780137213740

Edition: 1st 1993

Authors: P. J. Plauger

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A guided tour of numerous software design methods, this volume collects into book form a variety of articles from P.J. Plauger's monthly columnProgramming on Purpose which has been entertaining readers ofComputer Language Magazine for years. Topics span the gamut from how to be a software entrepreneur, the innards of floating point arithmetic, and the turbulent world of software design methodologies, including structured analysis and data-structured design, why bottom-up design isn't always foolish, and why top-down design isn't always wise.MARKETS: For supplemental reading in an intermediate or advanced course on software design methods or software engineering, and for practicing…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 2/2/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Which Tool Is Best?


Writing Predicates


Generating Data


Finite-State Machines


Recognizing Input


Handling Exceptions


Which Tool Is Next?


Order Out of Chaos


Marrying Data Structures


Divorcing Data Structures


Who's the Boss?


By Any Other Name


Searching


Synchronization


Which Tool Is Last?


A Designer's Bibliography


A Designer's Reference Shelf


A Preoccupation with Time


Structuring Time


Abstract It


Encapsulate It


Inherit It


Heresies of Software Design


Remedial Software Engineering


List of Columns


Bibliography