July/August 2007 Book Review

Coder to Developer: Tools and  Strategies for Delivering Your Software

Author: Mike Gunderloy
Publisher: Sybex
ISBN: 9780782143270
Format: Softcover Publication Date: 2004/5
Size: 229 x 189 x 19, 531g Pages: 297
Illustrations: Illustrated Readership: Tertiary Education; Professional & Scholarly

l though it can be easy to develop programming skills, using these skills for building applications is not so easy. This title addresses all of the skills required to effectively design and develop complex applications, including planning, building and developing the application and coding defensively to prevent bugs.

The Developer's Guide to Debugging

Author: Holger Keding; Thorsten Grtker; Ulrich Holtmann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781402055393
Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 2007/8
Pages: 300 Readership: Research & Professional

"The Developer's Guide to Debugging" is a book for both professional software developers seeking to broaden their skills and students who want to learn the tricks of the trade from the ground up. With small examples and exercises, it is well suited to accompany a IT course or lecture. At the same time, it can be used as a reference guide to address problems as the need arises. This book goes beyond the level of simple source code debugging scenarios. It covers the most frequent real-world problems from the areas of program linking, memory access, parallel processing and performance analysis. The picture is completed by chapters covering static checkers and techniques to write code that’s easier to debug. While the focus lies on C and C++, the workhorses of the software industry, one can apply many techniques described in "The Developer's Guide to Debugging" to programs written in other languages.

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