Write Great Code Vols I II

Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine

ISBN-10 1593270038 | 2004 | CHM | 8.4 Mb uncompressed

Volume I teaches important concepts of machine organization in a language-independent fashion. Volume II teaches ways to write high-level language code to help the compiler produce high-quality machine code. By Randall Hyde, author of "The Art Of Assembly Language".

Today's programmers are often narrowly trained because the industry moves too fast. That's where this new series from Randall Hyde (author of The Art of Assembly Language) comes in. This, the first of four volumes, teaches important concepts of machine organization in a language-independent fashion, giving programmers what they need to know to write great code in any language, without the usual overhead of learning assembly language to master this topic. The Write Great Code series will help programmers make wiser choices with respect to programming statements and data types when writing software.

Volume I: Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What You Need to Know to Write Great Code

Chapter 2: Numeric Representation

Chapter 3: Binary Arithmetic and Bit Operations

Chapter 4: Floating Point Representation

Chapter 5: Character Representation

Chapter 6: Memory Organization and Access

Chapter 7: Composite Data Types and Memory Objects

Chapter 8: Boolean Logic and Digital Design

Chapter 9: CPU Architecture

Chapter 10: Instruction Set Architecture

Chapter 11: Memory Architecture and Organization

Chapter 12: Input and Output (I/O)

Chapter 13: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level

Appendix A: ASCII Character Set

Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level

ISBN-10 1593270658 | 2006 | PDF | 4.4 Mb uncompressed

It's a critical lesson that today's computer science students aren't always being taught: How to carefully choose their high-level language statements to produce efficient code. Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level shows software engineers what too many college and university courses don't - how compilers translate high-level language statements and data structures into machine code. Armed with this knowledge, they will make informed choices concerning the use of those high-level structures and help the compiler produce far better machine code - all without having to give up the productivity and portability benefits of using a high-level language.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level

Chapter 2: Shouldn't You Learn Assembly Language?

Chapter 3: 80x86 Assembly for the HLL Programmer

Chapter 4: PowerPC Assembly for the HLL Programmer

Chapter 5: Compiler Operation and Code Generation

Chapter 6: Tools for Analyzing Compiler Output

Chapter 7: Constants and High-Level Languages

Chapter 8: Variables in a High-Level Language

Chapter 9: Array Data Types

Chapter 10: String Data Types

Chapter 11: Pointer Data Types

Chapter 12: Record, Union, and Class Data Types

Chapter 13: Arithmetic and Logical Expressions

Chapter 14: Control Structures and Programatic Decisions

Chapter 15: Iterative Control Structures

Chapter 16: Functions and Procedures

Chapter 17: Engineering Software

Appendix: A Brief Comparison of the 80x86 and PowerPC CPU Families

Home page:

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includes source code for Vol I and Appendixes A and B for Vol II.

Volume III is currently being written and Volume IV is in the design stage, see home page.

links to 2-volume set (13 Mb):

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