Preventative Programming Techniques: Avoid and Correct Common Mistakes (Charles River Media Programming)

Chapter 1: Premature Optimization

Why?

Why Later Is Too Late

Why That Has to Be Slow

Why Bad Habits Are Hard to Break

Why That Nifty New Algorithm

Why Past Mistakes

Assembly Only

Chapter 2: CAP Epidemic

Practical Preprocessing

Dangers of Manual Duplication

Chapter 3: NIH Syndrome

Sound Decisions

Go to the Source

Microsoft Foundation Classes

Chapter 4: Complexification

Invisible Asteroids

All Coded Up with Nowhere to Go

Chapter 5: Over Simplification

Simply Disastrous