Effective Debugging
by Diomidis Spinellis · first published 2016
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…about unix tools must be great: https://www.edx.org/course/unix-tools-data-software-and-prod... I'm really a fan of Spinellis, his books are excellent: https://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/index.html#book Effective Debugging book is a must read for any software developer. The Elements of Computing Style is useful for any knowledge worker. Code Reading is probably the only important book in the subject. The only problem with…
on “Was Knuth Really Framed?” ↗…"Code Reading: Open Source Perspective" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529511.Code_Reading "Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169414.Code_Quality "Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26720867-effective-debug...
on “Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer?” ↗John Regehr has a post with some book recommendations from 2013 [0]. Notably one of the books corresponds to an older Udacity course [1]. There's also this book that was recently published called Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems [2]. [0] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/849 [1] https://www.udacity.com/course/software-debugging--cs259 [2] https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Debugging-Specific-Software...
on “Teach Debugging (2014)” ↗