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Write Great Code: Volume 1: Understanding the Machine

By Randall Hyde

Book information

Publisher
No Starch Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9781593270032, 1593270038
Open Library ID
OL15597319M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4558222 bytes)
Volume
Volume 1
Edition
1st
Pages
449\449
Topic
Technique
Time added
2010-04-25 21:59:20

Description

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, 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 same time. And since Write Great Code concentrates on the machine organization, not assembly language, the reader will learn in greater depth those subjects that are language-independent and of concern to a high level language programmer. Write Great Code will help programmers make wiser choices with respect to programming statements and data types when writing software, no matter which language they use.

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