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Seriously Good Software

by Marco Faella

March 2020

Intermediate to advanced

328 pages

10h 1m

English

Manning Publications

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1.1. Software qualities1.2. Mostly external software qualities1.3. Mostly internal software qualities1.4. Interactions between software qualities1.5. Special qualities1.6. The recurring example: A system of water containers1.7. Data model and representations1.8. Hello containers! [Novice]SummaryFurther reading
2.1. The code [Reference]2.2. Memory requirements2.3. Time complexity2.4. Applying what you learnedSummaryAnswers to quizzes and exercisesFurther reading
3.1. Adding water in constant time [Speed1]3.2. Adding connections in constant time [Speed2]3.3. The best balance: Union-find algorithms [Speed3]3.4. Comparing implementations3.5. And now for something completely different3.6. Real-world use cases3.7. Applying what you learnedSummaryAnswers to quizzes and exercisesFurther reading
4.1. Gently squeezing [Memory1]4.2. Plain arrays [Memory2]4.3. Forgoing objects [Memory3]4.4. The black hole [Memory4]4.5. Space-time trade-offs4.6. And now for something completely different4.7. Real-world use cases4.8. Applying what you learnedSummaryAnswers to quizzes and exercisesFurther reading
5.1. Design by contract5.2. Designing containers by contract5.3. Containers that check their contracts [Contracts]5.4. Containers that check their invariants [Invariants]5.5. And now for something completely different5.6. Real-world use cases5.7. Applying what you learnedSummaryAnswers to quizzes and exercisesFurther reading
6.1. Basic testing notions6.2. Testing containers [UnitTests]6.3. Testability [Testable]6.4. And now for something completely different6.5. Real-world use cases6.6. Applying what you learnedSummaryAnswers to quizzes and exercisesFurther reading
7.1. Points of view on readability7.2. Structural readability features7.3. Exterior readability features7.4. Readable containers [Readable]7.5. Final thoughts on readability7.6. And now for something completely different7.7. Real-world use cases7.8. Applying what you learnedSummaryAnswers to quizzes and exercisesFurther reading
8.1. Challenges to thread safety8.2. Dealing with deadlocks8.3. Thread-safe containers [ThreadSafe]8.4. Immutability [Immutable]8.5. And now for something completely different8.6. Real-world use cases8.7. Applying what you learnedSummaryAnswers to quizzes and exercisesFurther reading
9.1. Establishing boundaries9.2. The general framework9.3. A generic container implementation9.4. General considerations9.5. Recovering water containers [Generic]9.6. Social network posts9.7. And now for something completely different9.8. Real-world use cases9.9. Applying what you learnedSummaryAnswers to quizzes and exercisesFurther reading

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The figure on the cover of Seriously Good Software is captioned “Homme Tscheremiss,” or man of the Tscheremiss tribe, which was a clan of people from the area near present-day Finland. The illustration is taken from a collection of dress costumes from various countries by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757–1810), titled Costumes de Différents Pays, published in France in 1797. Each illustration is finely drawn and colored by hand. The rich variety of Grasset de Saint-Sauveur’s collection reminds us vividly of how culturally apart the world’s towns and regions were just 200 years ago. Isolated from each other, people spoke different dialects and languages. In the streets or in the countryside, it was easy to identify where ...