Software Design by Example

Auteur

Dr. Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He co-founded and was the first Executive Director of Software Carpentry, which has taught basic software skills to tens of thousands of researchers worldwide, and has authored or edited over a dozen books (including two for children). Greg is a member of the Python Software Foundation and a recipient of ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator of the Year award.

Texte du rabat

Software Design by Example: A Tool-Based Introduction with Python builds small versions of the things programmers use in order to give some insights into how experienced programmers think. This material can be used for self-paced study, in an undergraduate course on software design, or as an intensive workshop for programmers.

Résumé

The best way to learn design in any field is to study examples, and some of the best examples of software design come from the tools programmers use in their own work. Software Design by Example: A Tool-Based Introduction with Python therefore builds small versions of the things programmers use in order to demystify them and give some insights into how experienced programmers think. From a file backup system and a testing framework to a regular expression matcher, a browser layout engine, and a very small compiler, we explore common design patterns, show how making code easier to test also makes it easier to reuse, and help readers understand how debuggers, profilers, package managers, and version control systems work so that they can use them more effectively.

This material can be used for self-paced study, in an undergraduate course on software design, or as the core of an intensive weeklong workshop for working programmers. Each chapter has a set of exercises ranging in size and difficulty from half a dozen lines to a full day's work. Readers should be familiar with the basics of modern Python, but the more advanced features of the language are explained and illustrated as they are introduced.

All the written material in this project can be freely reused under the terms of the Creative Commons - Attribution license, while all of the software is made available under the terms of the Hippocratic License. All proceeds from sale of this book will go to support the Red Door Family Shelter in Toronto.

Features:

• Teaches software design by showing programmers how to build the tools they use every day
• Each chapter includes exercises to help readers check and deepen their understanding
• All the example code can be downloaded, re-used, and modified under an open license

Contenu

1 Introduction

2 Objects and Classes

3 Finding Duplicate Files

4 Matching Patterns

5 Parsing Text

6 Running Tests

7 An Interpreter

8 Functions and Closures

9 Protocols

10 A File Archiver

11 An HTML Validator

12 A Template Expander

13 A Code Linter

14 Page Layout

15 Performance Profiling

16 Object Persistence

17 Binary Data

18 A Database

19 A Build Manager

20 A Package Manager

21 Transferring Files

22 Serving Web Pages

23 A File Viewer

24 Undo and Redo

25 A Virtual Machine

26 A Debugger

27 Conclusion

A Bibliography

B Bonus Material

C Syllabus

D License

E Code of Conduct

F Contributing

G Glossary

H Credits

Index