Write Great Code, Volume 2, 2nd Edition

Randall Hyde is the author of The Art of Assembly Language, one of the most highly recommended resources on assembly, and the three volume Write Great Code series (all No Starch Press). He is also the co-author of The Waite Group's MASM 6.0 Bible. He has written for Dr. Dobb's Journal and Byte, as well as professional and academic journals.

Praise for the first edition of Write Great Code, Volume 2:"Set aside some money and buy this book, or get a friend to buy it and get it from them while still in the store. When you get home, read it TWICE so that you master what is in these pages. Then read it again." —DevCity "Write Great Code Volume 2 exceeds its goal of helping developers pay more attention to application performance when writing applications in high-level languages. This book is a must for any high-level application developer. —Free Software Magazine "As a high-level-language programmer, if you want to know what's really going on with your programs, you need to spend a little time learning assembly language—and you won't find an easier introduction." —DevX "This is a good book. A very very good book. Frankly, I'm blown away at the quality of writing." —Toronto Ruby User Group

• IntroductionChapter 1: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-LevelChapter 2: Shouldn’t You Learn Assembly Language?Chapter 3: 80x86 Assembly for the HLL ProgrammerChapter 4: Compiler Operation and Code GenerationChapter 5: Tools for Analyzing Compiler OutputChapter 6: Constants and High-Level LanguagesChapter 7: Variables in a High-Level LanguageChapter 8: Array Data TypesChapter 9: Pointer Data TypesChapter 10: String Data TypesChapter 11: Record, Union, and Class Data TypesChapter 12: Arithmetic and Logical ExpressionsChapter 13: Control Structures and Programmatic DecisionsChapter 14: Iterative Control StructuresChapter 15: Functions and ProceduresAfterword: Engineering SoftwareGlossary