Programming Pearls, Second Edition by Jon Bentley. Addison-Wesley, Inc., 2000. ISBN 0-201-65788-0. 239 + xi pp. $24.95 This book is a collection of essays about a glamorous aspect of software: programming pearls whose origins lie beyond solid engineering, in the realm of insight and creativity. This book provides a guide for both students and experienced programmers about how to design and create programs, and how to think about programming. The book is full of small case studies, real examples, and interesting exercises for learning about how to program. This web page contains samples from the whole work for you to investigate. For teachers, the links below lead to some of the central material suitable for classroom use. Steve McConnell describes the book as ``a celebration of design in the small''. Browse this site to sample it yourself. What's new on this web site? From The Book Table of Contents Preface Part I: Preliminaries Column 1: Cracking the Oyster Column 2: Aha! Algorithms [Sketch] Column 4: Writing Correct Programs [Sketch] Column 5: A Small Matter of Programming [Sketch] Part II: Performance Column 7: The Back of the Envelope Column 8: Algorithm Design Techniques [Sketch] Part III: The Product Column 14: Heaps [Sketch] Column 15: Strings of Pearls Epilog to the First Edition Epilog to the Second Edition Appendix 2: An Estimation Quiz Appendix 3: Cost Models for Time and Space
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