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    API Design for C++
    API Design for C++
    API Design for C++
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    API Design for C++

    By Martin Reddy

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    API Design for C++ provides a comprehensive discussion of Application Programming Interface (API) development, from initial design through implementation, testing, documentation, release, versioning, maintenance, and deprecation. It is the only book that teaches the strategies of C++ API development, including interface design, versioning, scripting, and plug-in extensibility. Drawing from the author's experience on large scale, collaborative software projects, the text offers practical techniques of API design that produce robust code for the long term. It presents patterns and practices that provide real value to individual developers as well as organizations.

    API Design for C++ explores often overlooked issues, both technical and non-technical, contributing to successful design decisions that product high quality, robust, and long-lived APIs. It focuses on various API styles and patterns that will allow you to produce elegant and durable libraries. A discussion on testing strategies concentrates on automated API testing techniques rather than attempting to include end-user application testing techniques such as GUI testing, system testing, or manual testing. Each concept is illustrated with extensive C++ code examples, and fully functional examples and working source code for experimentation are available online.

    This book will be helpful to new programmers who understand the fundamentals of C++ and who want to advance their design skills, as well as to senior engineers and software architects seeking to gain new expertise to complement their existing talents. Three specific groups of readers are targeted: practicing software engineers and architects, technical managers, and students and educators.
    • The only book that teaches the strategies of C++ API development, including design, versioning, documentation, testing, scripting, and extensibility
    • Extensive code examples illustrate each concept, with fully functional examples and working source code for experimentation available online
    • Covers various API styles and patterns with a focus on practical and efficient designs for large-scale long-term projects
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateMar 14, 2011
    ISBN9780123850041
    API Design for C++
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    Martin Reddy

    Dr. Martin Reddy holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has over 30 years of experience in the software industry. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the AAIA, and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. He has published 10 patents, over 40 professional articles, and 2 books. Martin was co-founder and CTO of the AI startup, PullString, where he oversaw the development of the company's technology until it was acquired by Apple in 2019. While at Apple, Martin was a software architect responsible for the architecture and APIs of major components of the Siri virtual assistant. Before that, Dr. Reddy worked for 6 years at Pixar Animation Studios where he was a lead engineer for the studio's in-house animation system. He worked on several Academy Award Winning and Nominated films, such as "Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles", "Cars", "Ratatouille", and "Wall-E". He was also the hair model for Mr Incredible. Martin began his career at SRI International where he worked on a distributed 3D terrain visualization system and co-authored the geospatial functionality in the VRML and X3D ISO standards. Martin was awarded Alumnus of the Year by his alma mater, Strathclyde University.

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      This book was a disappointment. The coverage was shallow, a mile wide and an inch deep, and mainly repeated information available elsewhere, in better books. It wandered off into coverage of topics not directly related to its subject - profilers and memory analysis tools are certainly useful in API/library implementation, but have little to do with design, for example. Reddy's prose is pedestrian (not that one necessarily demands scintillating prose in a technical book). For the experienced programmer, this is a waste of time and money; it will largely tell you what you know already; better reread Lakos or Coplien. For the neophyte or the journeyman, it does have the virtue of gathering a lot of basic information into one place.

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