Book description
50 exercises to help you find bugs faster -- with less aggravation!
Bug hunting is an art, and you need to be a master. Get Find the Bug, and you'll become one. Long-time Microsoft programmer Adam Barr presents 50 programs, each with exactly one bug. Your assignment: find it. As you do, Barr will teach you how to "think like your processor"... anticipating exactly how code will behave, even without running it. You'll learn better ways to read code, understand it -- and above all, improve it. Whether you're building new systems or maintaining someone else's, you'll find bugs earlier, faster, with less frustration... and write cleaner code to begin with.
Presents "bugged" programs in C, Java, Python, Perl, and x86 assembly language, with carefully explained solutions
Includes language overviews to help you debug all 50 examples, even if you don't know the language
Shows how to look past the "surface" of code to uncover its hidden internal logic
Offers practical guidance on analyzing programs, including specific inputs to test
Presents a wide range of realistic bugs, with no phony "gotchas"
Draws on the types of coding and debugging challenges Microsoft uses to interview new programmers
An indispensable resource for working programmers, maintainers, testers, quality specialists, and everyone involved in code reviews
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Preface
- Bug Classification
- Tips on Walking Through Code
- C
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Python
- Brief Summary of Python
- Is a Number Prime?
- Find a Substring
- Alphabetize Words
- Encode Strings Using a Character Map
- Print the Month and Day
- Go Fish, Part I: Draw a Card from a Deck
- Go Fish, Part II: Ask if Another Hand Has a Card
- Go Fish, Part III: Play a Full Game
- Parse Numbers Written in English
- Assign Gift Givers
- Java
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Perl
- Brief Summary of Perl
- Sort a File by Line Length
- Print the Prime Factors of a Number
- Tab Expansion
- Simple Database
- Find Repeating Part of a Fraction
- Expand Indented File List to Full Paths
- Sort All the Files in a Directory Tree
- Calculate Student Test Averages
- Merge Sort of Multiple Files
- Play the Game Mastermind
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x86 Assembly Language
- Brief Summary of x86 Assembly Language
- Make Change for a Dollar
- Multiply Two Numbers Using Shifts
- Join Strings with a Delimiter
- Calculate Fibonacci Numbers
- Check if Two Words Are Anagrams
- Convert a 64-Bit Number to a Decimal String
- Sum a Signed Array
- Play the Simulation Game Life
- Check if Parentheses Match in Source Code
- Radix Exchange Sort
- Classification of Bugs
- Index of Bugs by Type
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Find the Bug A Book of Incorrect Programs
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2004
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 0321223918
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