This was a useful place to pick and choose my own pearls, back when I was programming. ( )

Indeholder "Preface", "Contents", "Part I: Programming Techniques", "Column 1: Profilers", " Computing Primes. Using Profilers. A Specialized Profiler. Building Profilers. Principles. Problems. Further Reading.", "Column 2: Associative Arrays", " Associative Arrays in Awk. A Finite State Machine Simulator. Topological Sorting. Principles. Problems. Further Reading.", "Column 3: Confessions of a Coder", " Binary Search. Selection. A Subroutine Library. Principles. Problems.", "Column 4: Self-Describing Data", " Name-Value Pairs. Provenances in Programming. A Sorting Lab. Principles. Problems.", "Part II: Tricks of the Trade", "Column 5: Cutting the Gordian Knot", " A Quiz. Some Solutions. Hints. Principles. Problems. Further Reading. Debugging. ", "Column 6: Bumper-Sticker Computer Science", " Coding. User Interfaces. Debugging. Performance. Documentation. Managing Software. Miscellaneous Rules. Principles. Problems. Further Reading.", "Column 7: The Envelope is Back", " A Warm-Up for Cool Brains. Performance Rules of Thumb. Little's Law. Principles. Problems. Further Reading. Quick Calculations in Everyday Life.", "Column 8: The Furbelow Memorandum", " The Memo. Principles. Further Reading.", "Part III: I/O Fit for Humans", "Column 9: Little Languages", " The Pic Language. Perspective. Pic Preprocessors. Little Languages for Implementing Pic. Principles. Problems. Further Reading.", "Column 10: Document Design", " Tables. Three Design Principles. Figures. Text. The Right Medium. Principles. Problems. Further Reading. A Catalog of Pet Peeves.", "Column 11: Graphic Output", " A Case Study. A Sampler of Displays. Principles. Problems. Further Reading. Napoleon's March to Moscow.", "Column 12: A Survey of Surveys", " The Problem of Polling. The Languages. The Pictures. Principles. Problems.", "Part IV: Algorithms", "Column 13: A Sample of Brilliance", " A Sampling of Sampling Algorithms. Floyd's Algorithm. Random Permutations. Principles. Problems. Further Reading.", "Column 14: Birth of a Cruncher", " The Problem. Newton Iteration. A Great Place to Start. The Code. Principles. Problems. Further Reading. A Big Success Story.", "Column 15: Selection", " The Problem. The Program. Analysis of Run Time. Principles. Problems. Further Reading.", "Appendix 1: The C and Awk Languages", "Appendix 2: A Subroutine Library", "Solutions to Selected Problems", "Index".

Vældig inspirerende bog, som bør genlæses med regelmæssige mellemrum. ( )