Write Great Code Understanding the Machine

Name: Write Great Code Understanding the Machine
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ISBN: 9781593270032

ISBN-10: 1593270038

ISBN-13: 9781593270032

Edition: 2003

Authors: Randall Hyde

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If you've asked someone the secret to writing efficient, well-written software, the answer that you've probably gotten is "learn assembly language programming." By learning assembly language programming, you learn how the machine really operates and that knowledge will help you write better high-level language code. A dirty little secret assembly language programmers rarely admit to, however, is that what you really need to learn is machine organization, not assembly language programming. "Write Great Code Vol I, the first in a series from assembly language expert Randall Hyde, dives right into machine organization without the extra overhead of learning assembly language programming at the…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: No Starch Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.628

Randall Hyde is the author of Write Great Code Volumes 1 and 2 (No Starch Press) and the co-author of MASM 6.0 Bible (The Waite Group). He has written for Dr. Dobb ™s Journal, Byte, and various professional journals. Hyde taught assembly language at the University of California, Riverside for over a decade.




What You Need to Know to Write Great Code



Numeric Representation



Binary Arithmetic and Bit Operations



Floating-Point Representation



Character Representation



Memory Organization and Access



Composite Data Types and Memory Objects



Boolean Logic and Digital Design



CPU Architecture



Instruction Set Architecture



Memory Architecture and Organization



Input and Output (I/O)


Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level



ASCII Character Set


Index