Professional Programming Tools for C and C++
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Professional Programming Tools for C and C++
If you answer yes to any of the following then this book is definitely for you!
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This book presents a quick start to a full range of tools you can use for programming and shipping quality software written in the C or C++ programming languages. Each chapter addresses an important program development task, and introduces tools for completing the task on all the major desktop operating systems. We try to minimise the discussion, and get you started right away with practical instructions. Chapters have a section on Tips and Common Problems at the end.
In Chapter 4 Interactive Debuggers we learn how to make good use of command-line and visual
debuggers, as well as the on-paper concept of a walk through your code, to understand the causes of errors in
your program.
In Chapter 2 Writing Out an Image File we add some colour to our programs by understanding how computers work with images, and find out it's not so difficult to do even for beginner programmers! We write out a binary image file that can open in graphics software, and then in Chapter 3 Binary Files and Hex Editors we work with a tool called a hex editor that lets us view the contents of the file to diagnose problems, and edit it manually.
Table of Contents
Preface |
1 Coding Assertively with Assertions |
2 Writing Out an Image File |
3 Binary Files and Hex Editors |
4 Interactive Debuggers |
5 Performance Profilers |
6 Build Systems |
7 End Code Style Arguments with Clang-Format |
8 Remove Lint with Static Analysis of Code |
9 Fuzz Testing with AFL |
10 Asm Inspection |
11 Memory Debuggers, Sanitisers, and Cache Simulators |
12 It worked on my computer! - Shipping the Program |
13 Argh! My New Job is on Linux! - Unix Tools |
Closing Remarks |
Acknowledgements |
About the Authors |
Book Information
See https://antongerdelan.net/pro_programming_tools_book/index.html for more information and errata.
Paperback dimensions | 192x235mm |
Pages | 146 full colour. |
Language | English. |
ISBN | 978-1-5272-5848-8 |
Source Code
Example programs, demonstrating code from each chapter, can be found at https://github.com/capnramses/pro_programming_tools_c_cpp.
About the Authors
Anton Gerdelan
I am a computer graphics programmer, living in Ireland. I earned a PhD in Computer Science from Massey University in New Zealand. I wrote a graphics book called Anton's OpenGL 4 Tutorials, which surprised me when it immediately became very popular. I worked for an Augmented Reality headset company called Daqri, which involved working with a lot of different engineers in offices around the world, and coordinating our work remotely for some pretty fantastic technology. I've done quite a bit of lecturing at universities, and make video games as a hobby.
Katja Žibrek
I am a researcher in graphics, currently residing in France and working at the Inria research institute. I studied Psychology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where I got introduced to Virtual Reality as a potential tool to study people. I needed to know more about graphics, so I continued with a PhD in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Because of my suspicious social science background it is probably better I stayed away from writing any parts of the book but I made some pretty pictures.
Status | Released |
Category | Book |
Authors | Anton Gerdelan, Cathrin7 |
Tags | book, programming, Tutorial |
Average session | A few seconds |
Languages | English |
Links | Homepage, Source code |
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