500 Lines Or Less

The Architecture of Open Source Applications #4

by Michael DiBernardo (Editor)

As we pointed out in The Architecture of Open Source Applications, architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study the critiques of many more. But most software developers only ever get to know a handful of programs well — usually programs they wrote themselves. This book provides you with the chance to study how 26 experienced programmers think when they are building something new. The programs you will read about in this book were all written from scratch to solve difficult problems. A web server, a pedometer, a Python interpreter, a web-based spreadsheet, and many more applications are written, in 500 lines of code or less, and described by their creators so that you can learn from their insights and their mistakes.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Software, Technical, Coding, Computer Science, Nonfiction

478 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 2016

Reviews

[Vasil Kolev · Rating 3 out of 5]

I never thought I'll find so much boring code in one place. There was nothing that caught my eye, just a few good advices.

[nawal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Getting to see how experienced developers work was definitely a learning experience

[Michael Chavinda]

The books series is a must read for anyone that wants to go beyond writing code to designing software. The code is well written and the exposition is great.

[Carter · Rating 4 out of 5]

What is economy of code, when it comes to metrics such as LOC? How do modern libraries, and development tools affect our workload? This book illustrates, in part, the impact, of OSS frameworks, on modern software development.

[啓聡 · Rating 3 out of 5]

The one thing that interested me was its introduction to Paxos, the consensus algorithm. Other than that, it is kind of boring...