Tag: The Elements of Programming Style
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The element of programming style
When the book saw the lights, programming wasn't as important as today. But, some of the ideas around the style of writing are a worth to notice and to know it. For that reason reading the book
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The elements of programming style: Common Blunders
Chapter 6: Common Blunders A major concern of programming is making sure that a program can defend against bad data. But even with correct data, there is no guarantee that a program will work. In this
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The elements of programming style: Control Structure
Chapter 3: Control Structure A computer program is shaped by its data representation and the statements that determine its flow of control. These define the structure of a program. There is no sharp
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The elements of programming style: Documentation
Chapter 8: Documentation The best documentation for a computer program is a clean structure. It also helps if the code is well formatted, with good mnemonic identifiers and labels (if any are needed),
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The elements of programming style: Don't Be Too clever
Preface to the Second Edition The practice of computer programming has changed since The Elements of Programming Style first appeared. Programming style has become a legitimate topic of discussion.
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The elements of programming style: Efficiency and instrumentation
Chapter 7: Efficiency and instrumentation Machines have become increasingly cheap compared to people; any discussion of computer efficiency that fails to take this into account is shortsighted.
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The elements of programming style: Epilogue
Epilogue There are many good books on languages, algorithms and numerical methods available to those who want to learn programming in greater depth. Our goal was not to teach languages or algorithms,
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The elements of programming style: Expressions
Chapter 2: Expressions Writing a computer program eventually boils down to wanting a sequence of statements in the language at hand. How each of those statements is expressed determines in large