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• Code Craft

• By: Pete Goodliffe

• Publisher: No Starch Press

• Pub. Date: December 14, 2006

• Print ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-119-0

• Pages in Print Edition: 610

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Many programmers know how to write correct code - code that works. But not all know how to craft great code - code that is well written and easy to understand. Code Craft teaches programmers how to move beyond writing correct code to writing great code. The book covers code writing concerns, including code presentation style, variable naming, error handling, and security; and the wider issues of programming in the real world, such as good teamwork, development processes, and documentation. Code Craft presents language-agnostic advice that is relevant to all developers, from an author with loads of practical experience. A Q&A section at the end of each chapter helps readers to review the material and makes the book suited for academic use as well.

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Table of Contents

 

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CODE CRAFT

Copyright

Dedication

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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1 TokenABOUT THE AUTHOR

Part 1: AT THE CODEFACE

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1 TokenChapter 1. ON THE DEFENSIVE

Section 1.1. Toward Good Code

Section 1.2. Assume the Worst

Section 1.3. What Is Defensive Programming?

Section 1.4. The Big, Bad World

Section 1.5. In a Nutshell

Section 1.6. See Also

Section 1.7. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 2. THE BEST LAID PLANS

Section 2.1. What's the Big Deal?

Section 2.2. Know Your Audience

Section 2.3. What Is Good Presentation?

Section 2.4. Brace Yourself

Section 2.5. One Style to Rule Them All

Section 2.6. House Styles (and Where to Stick Them)

Section 2.7. Setting the Standard

Section 2.8. Righteous Wars?

Section 2.9. In a Nutshell

Section 2.10. See Also

Section 2.11. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 3. WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Section 3.1. Why Should We Name Well?

Section 3.2. What Do We Name?

Section 3.3. Name Games

Section 3.4. The Nuts and Bolts

Section 3.5. A Rose by Any Other Name

Section 3.6. In a Nutshell

Section 3.7. See Also

Section 3.8. Get Thinking

Chapter 4. THE WRITESTUFF

Section 4.1. Self-Documenting Code

Section 4.2. Techniques for Self-Documenting Code

Section 4.3. Practical Self-Documentation Methodologies

Section 4.4. In a Nutshell

Section 4.5. See Also

Section 4.6. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 5. A PASSING COMMENT

Section 5.1. What Is a Code Comment?

Section 5.2. What Do Comments Look Like?

Section 5.3. How Many Comments?

Section 5.4. What Goes Inside Our Comments?

Section 5.5. In Practice

Section 5.6. A Comment on Aesthetics

Section 5.7. Working with Comments

Section 5.8. In a Nutshell

Section 5.9. See Also

Section 5.10. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 6. TO ERR IS HUMAN

Section 6.1. From Whence It Came

Section 6.2. Error-Reporting Mechanisms

Section 6.3. Detecting Errors

Section 6.4. Handling Errors

Section 6.5. Raising Hell

Section 6.6. Managing Errors

Section 6.7. In a Nutshell

Section 6.8. See Also

Section 6.9. Get Thinking

Part 2: THE SECRET LIFE OF CODE

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1 TokenChapter 7. THE PROGRAMMER'S TOOLBOX

Section 7.1. What Is a Software Tool?

Section 7.2. Why Worry About Tools?

Section 7.3. Power Tools

Section 7.4. Which Tools?

Section 7.5. In a Nutshell

Section 7.6. See Also

Section 7.7. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 8. TESTING TIMES

Section 8.1. Reality Check

Section 8.2. Who, What, When, and Why?

Section 8.3. Testing Isn't Hard . . .

Section 8.4. The Types of Test

Section 8.5. Choosing Unit Test Cases

Section 8.6. Design for Test

Section 8.7. Look! No Hands!

Section 8.8. The Face of Failure

Section 8.9. Can You Manage It?

Section 8.10. In a Nutshell

Section 8.11. See Also

Section 8.12. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 9. FINDING FAULT

Section 9.1. The Facts of Life

Section 9.2. Nature of the Beast

Section 9.3. Pest Extermination

Section 9.4. Bug Hunting

Section 9.5. How to Fix Faults

Section 9.6. Prevention

Section 9.7. Wasp Spray, Slug Repellent, Fly Paper . . .

Section 9.8. In a Nutshell

Section 9.9. See Also

Section 9.10. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 10. THE CODE THAT JACK BUILT

Section 10.1. Language Barriers

Section 10.2. Making Mountains out of Molehills

Section 10.3. Building Builds

Section 10.4. What Makes a Good Build System?

Section 10.5. The Mechanics

Section 10.6. Please Release Me

Section 10.7. Jack-of-All-Trades, Buildmaster Of?

Section 10.8. In a Nutshell

Section 10.9. See Also

Section 10.10. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 11. THE NEED FOR SPEED

Section 11.1. What Is Optimization?

Section 11.2. What Makes Code Suboptimal?

Section 11.3. Why Not Optimize?

Section 11.4. Why Optimize?

Section 11.5. The Nuts and Bolts

Section 11.6. Optimization Techniques

Section 11.7. Writing Efficient Code

Section 11.8. In a Nutshell

Section 11.9. See Also

Section 11.10. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 12. AN INSECURITY COMPLEX

Section 12.1. The Risks

Section 12.2. The Opposition

Section 12.3. Excuses, Excuses

Section 12.4. Feeling Vulnerable

Section 12.5. Protection Racket

Section 12.6. In a Nutshell

Section 12.7. See Also

Section 12.8. Get Thinking

Part 3: THE SHAPE OF CODE

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1 TokenChapter 13. GRAND DESIGNS

Section 13.1. Programming as Design

Section 13.2. What Do We Design?

Section 13.3. What's All the Fuss About?

Section 13.4. Good Software Design

Section 13.5. How to Design Code

Section 13.6. In a Nutshell

Section 13.7. See Also

Section 13.8. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 14. SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

Section 14.1. What Is Software Architecture?

Section 14.2. What Is Good Architecture?

Section 14.3. Architectural Styles

Section 14.4. In a Nutshell

Section 14.5. See Also

Section 14.6. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 15. SOFTWARE EVOLUTION OR SOFTWARE REVOLUTION?

Section 15.1. Software Rot

Section 15.2. The Warning Signs

Section 15.3. How Does Code Grow?

Section 15.4. Believe the Impossible

Section 15.5. What Can We Do About This?

Section 15.6. In a Nutshell

Section 15.7. See Also

Section 15.8. Get Thinking

Part 4: A HERD OF PROGRAMMERS?

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1 TokenChapter 16. CODE MONKEYS

Section 16.1. Monkey Business

Section 16.2. The Ideal Programmer

Section 16.3. So What?

Section 16.4. The Stupidest of Men

Section 16.5. In a Nutshell

Section 16.6. See Also

Section 16.7. Action Sheet

Section 16.8. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 17. TOGETHER WE STAND

Section 17.1. Our Teams—The Big Picture

Section 17.2. Team Organization

Section 17.3. Teamwork Tools

Section 17.4. Team Diseases

Section 17.5. Personal Skills and Characteristics for Good Teamwork

Section 17.6. Teamwork Principles

Section 17.7. The Team Life Cycle

Section 17.8. In a Nutshell

Section 17.9. See Also

Section 17.10. Action Sheet

Section 17.11. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 18. PRACTICING SAFE SOURCE

Section 18.1. Our Responsibility

Section 18.2. Source Control

Section 18.3. Configuration Management

Section 18.4. Backups

Section 18.5. Releasing Source Code

Section 18.6. Wherever I Lay My Source

Section 18.7. In a Nutshell

Section 18.8. See Also

Section 18.9. Get Thinking

Part 5: PART OF THE PROCESS

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1 TokenChapter 19. BEING SPECIFIC

Section 19.1. What Are They, Specifically?

Section 19.2. The Types of Specification

Section 19.3. What Should Specifications Contain?

Section 19.4. The Specification-Writing Process

Section 19.5. Why Don't We Write Specifications?

Section 19.6. In a Nutshell

Section 19.7. See Also

Section 19.8. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 20. A REVIEW TO A KILL

Section 20.1. What Is a Code Review?

Section 20.2. When Do You Review?

Section 20.3. Performing Code Reviews

Section 20.4. Review Your Attitudes

Section 20.5. Code Perfection

Section 20.6. Beyond the Code Review

Section 20.7. In a Nutshell

Section 20.8. See Also

Section 20.9. Checklist

Section 20.10. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 21. HOW LONG IS A PIECE OF STRING?

Section 21.1. A Stab in the Dark

Section 21.2. Why Is Estimation So Hard?

Section 21.3. Under Pressure

Section 21.4. Practical Ways to Estimate

Section 21.5. The Planning Game

Section 21.6. Keep Up!

Section 21.7. In a Nutshell

Section 21.8. See Also

Section 21.9. Get Thinking

Part 6: VIEW FROM THE TOP

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1 TokenChapter 22. RECIPE FOR A PROGRAM

Section 22.1. Programming Styles

Section 22.2. Recipes: The How and the What

Section 22.3. Development Processes

Section 22.4. Enough, Already!

Section 22.5. Pick a Process

Section 22.6. In a Nutshell

Section 22.7. See Also

Section 22.8. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 23. THE OUTER LIMITS

Section 23.1. Applications Programming

Section 23.2. Games Programming

Section 23.3. Systems Programming

Section 23.4. Embedded Programming

Section 23.5. Distributed Programming

Section 23.6. Web Application Programming

Section 23.7. Enterprise Programming

Section 23.8. Numerical Programming

Section 23.9. So What?

Section 23.10. In a Nutshell

Section 23.11. See Also

Section 23.12. Get Thinking

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1 TokenChapter 24. WHERE NEXT?

Section 24.1. But What Now?

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1 TokenAppendix A. Answers and Discussion

Section A.1. Chapter 1: On the Defensive

Section A.2. Chapter 2: The Best Laid Plans

Section A.3. Chapter 3: What’s in a Name?

Section A.4. Chapter 4: The Write Stuff

Section A.5. Chapter 5: A Passing Comment

Section A.6. Chapter 6: To Err Is Human

Section A.7. Chapter 7: The Programmer’s Toolbox

Section A.8. Chapter 8: Testing Times

Section A.9. Chapter 9: Finding Fault

Section A.10. Chapter 10: The Code That Jack Built

Section A.11. Chapter 11: The Need for Speed

Section A.12. Chapter 12: An Insecurity Complex

Section A.13. Chapter 13: Grand Designs

Section A.14. Chapter 14: Software Architecture

Section A.15. Chapter 15: Software Evolution or Software Revolution?

Section A.16. Chapter 16: Code Monkeys

Section A.17. Chapter 17: Together We Stand

Section A.18. Chapter 18: Practicing Safe Source

Section A.19. Chatper 19: Being Specific

Section A.20. Chapter 20: A Review to a Kill

Section A.21. Chapter 21: How Long Is a Piece of String?

Section A.22. Chapter 22: Recipe for a Program

Section A.23. Chapter 23: The Outer Limits

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