'The Practice of Programming'
by Brian Kernigan and Rob Pike


In my opinion this book is one of the best books on programming to come out in the last few years. At a time when most authors in the computing field are content to churn out book after book using the search and replace facility of their word processor, this book stands out as something special.

 The Practice of Programming

Topics covered include style, interfaces, debugging, testing, and portability. This is above all a practical book for practising programmers. Nowadays people are considered to have been 'taught to program' when they have been taught the syntax of a language. This book will be useful for those who recognise that they have much more to learn if they want to write real programs.

Highly recommended.

Alan Lenton
1 December 1999


The Practice of Programming
by Brian Kernigan and Rob Pike
020161586X
Addison-Wesley 267pp $23.09


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