Books For Tool Design C++

API Design for C++ - 1st Edition - ISBN: 9780123850034, 9780123850041

Paperback ISBN: 9780123850034

eBook ISBN: 9780123850041

Published Date: 4th February 2011

Select country/region:

Sales tax will be calculated at check-out Price includes VAT/GST

Print - Paperback

Available

This title is printed on demand. For regional delivery times, please check When will I receive my book? in our Support Hub.

Available

This title is printed on demand. For regional delivery times, please check When will I receive my book? in our Support Hub.

Available

This title is printed on demand. For regional delivery times, please check When will I receive my book? in our Support Hub.

Sorry, this product is currently out of stock.

Sorry, we aren't shipping this product to your region at this time.

68.14

55.95

49.99

62.95

44.06

Unavailable

Price includes VAT/GST

eBook

45.95

36.99

59.95

41.96

Unavailable

Price includes VAT/GST

DRM-free (EPub, PDF, Mobi)

Easy - Download and start reading immediately. There's no activation process to access eBooks; all eBooks are fully searchable, and enabled for copying, pasting, and printing.

Flexible - Read on multiple operating systems and devices. Easily read eBooks on smart phones, computers, or any eBook readers, including Kindle.

Open - Buy once, receive and download all available eBook formats, including PDF, EPUB, and Mobi (for Kindle).

Institutional Subscription

Secure Checkout

Personal information is secured with SSL technology.

Free Shipping

Free global shipping
No minimum order.

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.

Key Features

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.

Readership

All software engineers developing C++ code to be used by other developers, whether via APIs, libraries, device drivers, or other reusable components.

Foreword
Preface
- Why you should read this book
- Who is the target audience
- Focusing on C++
- Conventions
- Book web site
Acknowledgments
Author Biography
Chapter 1. Introduction
- Publisher Summary
- 1.1 What are Application Programming Interfaces?
- 1.2 What's Different About API Design?
- 1.3 Why Should you Use APIs?
- 1.4 When Should you Avoid APIs?
- 1.5 API Examples
- 1.6 File Formats and Network Protocols
- 1.7 About this Book
Chapter 2. Qualities
- Publisher Summary
- 2.1 Model the Problem Domain
- 2.2 Hide Implementation Details
- 2.3 Minimally Complete
- 2.4 Easy to Use
- 2.5 Loosely Coupled
- 2.6 Stable, documented, and tested
Chapter 3. Patterns
- Publisher Summary
- 3.1 Pimpl Idiom
- 3.2 Singleton
- 3.3 Factory Methods
- 3.4 API Wrapping Patterns
- 3.5 Observer Pattern
Chapter 4. Design
- Publisher Summary
- 4.1 A Case for Good Design
- 4.2 Gathering Functional Requirements
- 4.3 Creating Use Cases
- 4.4 Elements of Api Design
- 4.5 Architecture Design
- 4.6 Class Design
- 4.7 Function Design
Chapter 5. Styles
- Publisher Summary
- 5.1 Flat C APIs
- 5.2 Object-oriented C++ APIs
- 5.3 Template-based APIs
- 5.4 Data-driven APIs
Chapter 6. C++ Usage
- Publisher Summary
- 6.1 Namespaces
- 6.2 Constructors and Assignment
- 6.3 Const Correctness
- 6.4 Templates
- 6.5 Operator Overloading
- 6.6 Function Parameters
- 6.7 Avoid #define for Constants
- 6.8 Avoid Using Friends
- 6.9 Exporting Symbols
- 6.10 Coding Conventions
Chapter 7. Performance
- Publisher Summary
- 7.1 Pass Input Arguments by Const Reference
- 7.2 Minimize #include Dependencies
- 7.3 Declaring Constants
- 7.4 Initialization Lists
- 7.5 Memory Optimization
- 7.6 Don't Inline Until You Need To
- 7.7 Copy on Write
- 7.8 Iterating Over Elements
- 7.9 Performance Analysis
Chapter 8. Versioning
- Publisher Summary
- 8.1 Version Numbers
- 8.2 Software Branching Strategies
- 8.3 Life Cycle of an API
- 8.4 Levels of Compatibility
- 8.5 How to Maintain Backward Compatibility
- 8.6 API Reviews
Chapter 9. Documentation
- Publisher Summary
- 9.1 Reasons to Write Documentation
- 9.2 Types of Documentation
- 9.3 Documentation Usability
- 9.4 Using Doxygen
Chapter 10. Testing
- Publisher Summary
- 10.1 Reasons to Write Tests
- 10.2 Types of API Testing
- 10.3 Writing Good Tests
- 10.4 Writing Testable Code
- 10.5 Automated Testing Tools
Chapter 11. Scripting
- Publisher Summary
- 11.1 Adding Script Bindings
- 11.2 Script-binding Technologies
- 11.3 Adding Python Bindings With Boost Python
- 11.4 Adding Ruby Bindings With Swig
Chapter 12. Extensibility
- Publisher Summary
- 12.1 Extending Via Plugins
- 12.2 Extending Via Inheritance
- 12.3 Extending Via Templates
Appendix A. Libraries
- A.1 Static Versus Dynamic Libraries
- A.2 Libraries on Windows
- A.3 Libraries on Linux
- A.4 Libraries on Mac Os X
Bibliography
Index

Details

No. of pages:: 472

Language:: English

Published:: 4th February 2011

Imprint:: Morgan Kaufmann

Paperback ISBN:: 9780123850034

eBook ISBN:: 9780123850041

Martin Reddy

Dr. Martin Reddy is the founder and CEO of the software consultancy firm Code Reddy Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has over 15 years of experience in the software industry. During this time, he has written 3 software patents and has published over 40 professional articles and a book on 3D computer graphics.

Dr. Reddy worked for 6 years at Pixar Animation Studios where he was lead engineer for the studio's in-house animation system. This work involved the design and implementation of various APIs to support several Academy Award-winning and nominated films, such as "Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles", "Cars", "Ratatouille", and "Wall-E."

Dr. Reddy currently works for Linden Lab on the Second Life Viewer, an online 3D virtual world that has been used by over 16 million users around the world. His work is currently focused on a radical redesign of the Second Life Viewer, putting in place a suite of robust APIs to enable extensibility and scriptability.

Affiliations and Expertise

CEO, Code Reddy

Martin Reddy draws from his experience on large scale, collaborative software projects to present 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 produce high quality, robust, and long-lived APIs. - Eric Gregory, Software Architect, Pixar Animation Studios

"Intended for programmers with intermediate to advanced skills in the C++ programming language, this guide to the building of useful and robust application programming interfaces (APIs) provides practical instruction for software engineers developing systems on which downstream software engineers depend. The work provides a methodical approach to API design covering solution based API design, performance, versioning, documentation, testing, scripting, extensibility and libraries. The work includes numerous illustrations and code examples and access to additional online resources is provided. Reddy is a software development consultant."--Book News, Reference & Research

5.0 star rating 1 Review

write a review

Reviews (1)

Wonderful book

Review by Luisa G. on 14 May 2018 review stating Wonderful book

It is a well written and well organized book. The virtue of this book is that it is really focused on the title topic, it is easy to understand and a pleasant reading.