500 Lines or Less (Paperback)

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.

正如我們在《開源應用程式的架構》一書中指出的，建築師在培訓期間會觀察數千棟建築物，並研究更多建築物的評論。但大多數軟體開發人員只會熟悉少數幾個程式 - 通常是他們自己寫的程式。本書為您提供了機會，讓您研究26位經驗豐富的程式設計師在建立新程式時的思考方式。本書介紹的程式都是從頭開始編寫，用於解決困難的問題。這些程式包括網頁伺服器、計步器、Python 解譯器、基於網頁的試算表等等，每個程式都不超過500行代碼，並由其創作者描述，以便您能從他們的見解和錯誤中學習。