Software Engineering

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Widely considered one of the best practical guides to Programming,, Steve McConnell's original CODE COMPLETE has been helping developers write better software for more than a decade. Now this classic book has been fully updated and revised with leadingedge practicesand hundreds of new code samplesillustrating the art and science of software con...

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Even bad code can function. But if code isn t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn t have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile So...

You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel, so you look to design patternsthe lessons learned by those who've faced the same software design problems. With design patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others so that you can spend your time on something more challenging. Something more fun. This book shows ...

Fully Revised and UpdatedIncludes New Refactorings and Code Examples "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." M. Fowler (1999) For more than twenty years, experienced programmers worldwide have relied on Martin Fowler's Refactoring to improve the design of existing code and...

The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multitiered objectoriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented. Common failures in enterpr...

I am not a recruiter. I am a software engineer. And as such, I know what it's like to be asked to whip up brilliant algorithms on the spot and then write flawless code on a whiteboard. I've been through this as a candidate and as an interviewer.Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition is here to help you through this process, teaching you what yo...

Design Patterns is a modern classic in the literature of objectoriented development, offering timeless and elegant solutions to common problems in software design. It describes patterns for managing object creation, composing objects into larger structures, and coordinating control flow between objects. The book provides numerous examples where us...