Title: More programming pearls :
Authors: Bentley, Jon Louis.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.,
Physical description: viii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: Pt I: Programming techniques -- Profilers -- Computing primes, using profilers, a specialized profiler, building profilers, principles, problems -- Associative arrays -- Associative arrays in awk, a finite state machine simulator, topological sorting, principles, problems -- Confessions of a coder -- Binary search, selection, a subroutine library, principles, problems -- Self-describing data -- Name-value pairs, provenances in programming, a sorting lab, principles, problems -- pt. II: Tricks of the trade -- Cutting the Gordian knot -- A quiz, some solutions, hints, principles, problems, debugging -- Bumper-sticker computer science -- Coding, user interfaces, debugging, performance, documentation, managing software, miscellaneous rules, principles, problems -- The envelope is back -- A warm-up for cool brains, performance rules of thumb, Little's law, principles, problems, quick calculations in everyday life -- The furbelow memorandum -- The memo, principles -- pt. III: I/O fit for humans -- Little languages -- The pic language, perspective, pic preprocessors, little languages for implementing pic, principles, problems -- Document design -- Tables, three design principles, figures, text, the right medium, principles, problems, a catalog of pet peeves -- Graphic output -- A case study, a sampler of displays, principles, problems, Napoleon's march to Moscow -- A survey of surveys -- The problems of polling, the languages, the pictures, principles, problems -- pt. IV: Algorithms -- A sample of brilliance -- A sampling of sampling algorithms, Floyd's algorithm, random permutations, principles, problems, a big success story -- Selection -- The problem, the program, analysis of run time, principles, problems.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Computer programming.