Elegant C

This summer, the school asked professors if they would be interested in leading book discussions with incoming first-year students in Comput...

Valley of Genius is a history of Silicon Valley based on the people who made it.  Since the work was based on interviews, I expected that i...

The Art of Application Performance Testing , covers what it says.  The book starts with concepts general to any performance testing, which w...

I have been listening to the Dungeon Hacks audiobook , and it has both reminded of my past joys of playing Angband , as well as some interes...

I wanted to like this book,  Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach , and be able to use it in the classroom.  I teach a clas...

I have spent significant time on performance issues and have been in search of a book that can summarize the diversity of issues and techniq...

I really enjoyed reading  The Art of Readable Code .  I always enjoy reading books on style, both English writing as well as source code.  T...

At SIGCSE this year, I spoke with several publishers about possible textbooks.  Primarily, for ones that would work in the different classes...

A book of such promise is Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty , yet it fails.  The first third of this work followed the ho...

(contains Amazon affiliate link) I recently found, The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) , sitting on ...

Besides reading an average of 5 research papers every week, I also read an average of one book each week.  Occasionally those books relate t...

Recently, I read the work of history, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Vintage) , which is an interesting book t...

Generally, I do not write code in C++; however, on occasion (like when writing LLVM compiler passes), I am forced into using this language. ...

I thought Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming was a much more enjoyable read than the previously reviewed, Masterminds ...

Several years ago I read a couple of interesting interviews with language designers, so my curiously was piqued by Masterminds of Programmin...

As I stated in part 3 , I found some erroneous information in chapter 11 about NUMA.  While this book was published in 2004, I cannot excuse...

With Parts 1 and Parts 2 behind us, the text can race forward through character sets, present memory usage / layout (like my Pointers on P...

+/- 1.F x 2^(Exp) That's the modern floating point representation (with a few caveats).  It is stored bitwise as SignExpF.  As this re...

What is great code?  What characteristics would you describe it having?  These questions come to mind as I am reading the first of a four vo...

I came across the book, Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) , several months ago ...