''Code Reading'' ({{ISBN, 0-201-79940-5) is a 2003

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. The book is directed to programmers who want to improve their

code In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communication ...

reading abilities. It discusses specific techniques for reading code written by others and outlines common programming concepts. The code examples used in the book are taken from real-life software and uses C to illustrate basic concepts. Excerpts from prominent open-source code systems like the

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engine, the

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are presented. The book inaugurated

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's Effective Software Development Series, edited by

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, and received the 2004 Software Development Productivity Award in the “Technical Books” category. It has been translated into Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Russian.

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