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Summary: A Resource for Improving Your C Programming
Review: "Hanson is a superior C programmer who uses literate programming. This is a good book for practitioners... I will be recommending it to people who ask for a book to improve their C programming." - Computing ReviewsUsing a unique methodology that separates interfaces from their implementations, this book shows you how to create reusable APIs for C programming. This resource revolves around 24 sample interfaces and their implementations, with detailed explanations of the source code. In addition to demonstrating this book's design approach, these interfaces can easily be modified or extended for your own use. Throughout, this book focuses on algorithm engineering--how to package data structures and related algorithms into reusable modules. David R. Hanson has more than 20 years of research experience in programming languages. He has conducted research in conjunction with Bell Laboratories and is the coauthor of lcc, a production quality, research compiler for the C language that is popular with the Unix community.
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Summary: From novice to a professional
Review: Clearly written and well organized, this book presents more than 20 _highly_ useful library interfaces for containers, string management, mathematics, and memory management. There isn't a line of code in the whole book that you couldn't take and use, verbatim, in a project today --- after reading this book, you'll probably never have a compelling reason to write a string library or a hash table interface again. More importantly, though, each example library illustrates ways to effectively design consistant and useable library interfaces, from generic ADTs to system service wrappers. After reading this book, you'll not only have an arsenal of useful code to leverage, but also a good understanding of how to design clean, modular, reuseable components for your application. Hanson's C code is extremely clear and concise. Even if you've been programming professionally for a long time, you are likely to pick up a useful technique or two just by reading the source code in the book. If you're not very experienced, you will learn about C programming idioms that will be valuable to you in future work. I really like how this book, and Hanson's other book ("A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation") are put together. Hanson employs Literate Programming techniques to weave the code he's discussing together with his discussion. This makes it very simple to track what portions of the code are being talked about at any point in the book.
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Summary: Probably the best advanced C book in existance...
Review: Clearly written and well organized, this book presents more than 20 _highly_ useful library interfaces for containers, string management, mathematics, and memory management. There isn't a line of code in the whole book that you couldn't take and use, verbatim, in a project today --- after reading this book, you'll probably never have a compelling reason to write a string library or a hash table interface again. More importantly, though, each example library illustrates ways to effectively design consistant and useable library interfaces, from generic ADTs to system service wrappers. After reading this book, you'll not only have an arsenal of useful code to leverage, but also a good understanding of how to design clean, modular, reuseable components for your application. Hanson's C code is extremely clear and concise. Even if you've been programming professionally for a long time, you are likely to pick up a useful technique or two just by reading the source code in the book. If you're not very experienced, you will learn about C programming idioms that will be valuable to you in future work. I really like how this book, and Hanson's other book ("A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation") are put together. Hanson employs Literate Programming techniques to weave the code he's discussing together with his discussion. This makes it very simple to track what portions of the code are being talked about at any point in the book.
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Summary: By far the most advanced C book I read
Review: I have been a C and C++ programmer for 5 years, and is regarded as an professional C and C++ programmer. After scanning this book, I think I should re-estimate my C skill. In one word, this book is the most advanced C book I've read, it presents lots of wonderful techniques and ideas, and more, all the things are very useful. For examples: * Use standard C's setjmp/longjmp to implement WIn32 SEH-like exception handling machanism. * Very detailed and smart memory management solution. * All the data structures and utilities in well-defined, reusable format: atoms, tables, sets, vectors(dynamic arrays), rings, strings, arithmetric with any precisions, thread library... everything you need to build a whole new system. I'd say that once you master each of those things (this means read and re-read until understanding occur, as Fransis Glassborow said ), you will be an outstanding programmer in any circumstance, and can be full of confidence to accept any programming challenge. The only thing I complain is about the source code. The source code presenting style in this book is relative strange and difficult to catch. I tried to type the code into my PC, and found it's a unpleasent work. Fortunately, the all source can be download from the book's web page, so, I still gave 5 stars.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I have just finished reading the first six chapter of this book and find it very instructive.
As a programmer, I followed the way of C->C++->Java in the past three years. Now as I am coming back to C£¬ I find this book helps me to finish a cycle in software engineering.
When I am reading, I imagine how every idea introduced here can help to implement those "OOP" features of Java and C++. It reveals to me the very essence of software itself.
Originally I plan to buy it by company money, but now I changed the idea to pay by myself because I really want to keep it.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I have just finished reading the first six chapter of this book and find it very instructive.
As a programmer, I followed the way of C->C++->Java in the past three years. Now as I am coming back to C£¬ I find this book helps me to finish a cycle in software engineering.
When I am reading, I imagine how every idea introduced here can help to implement those "OOP" features of Java and C++. It reveals to me the very essence of software itself.
Originally I plan to buy it by company money, but now I changed the idea to pay by myself because I really want to keep it.
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Summary: From novice to a professional
Review: If you want to become a professional programmer overnight.read and thoroughly understand this book. If one could master the techniques described in this book..he may never have to worry about failing software developer's job interviews. This last statement is based on my personal experience.
The chapters provide source code which is clear, efficient, and outrightly professional, the description is concise, to the point and clear enough.Most of the code in the book can be used without any modification. I don't know of a book in the market that could teach how to design and implement a user-level threads library from the scratch WITHOUT any help from the Operating System. Simply wonderful
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Summary: wonderful C book.
Review: This book is a highway leading you form toy project to real-life project. The author told you exactly what you want when you programming. The book detailed a lot of tricky stuff which would haunted you for a long time before you read this book.
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Summary: wonderful C book.
Review: This book is a highway leading you form toy project to real-life project. The author told you exactly what you want when you programming. The book detailed a lot of tricky stuff which would haunted you for a long time before you read this book.
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