Computer Systems: What Every Programmer Should Know

by Martin Kalin

Computer Systems covers topics you need to know to become a better programmer. Author Martin Kalin draws on knowledge he gained writing large industrial applications, web and non-web for those applications, it's always the systems issues that come to the fore―running short on or out of memory, application crashes and restarts, running too slowly, contending with problems on the host machine, and so on. The emphasis in the book, from start to finish, is on how an understanding of the underlying computer system is essential to writing correct, robust, and efficient code―regardless of the language or the run-time context (e.g., JavaScript executing in a browser context, an Objective C app running on an iPad, a Rails web site hosted on Heroku, etc.). It answers questions such

300 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 2015

About the author

Martin Kalin has a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is a professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University. He has co-written a series of books on C and C++ and written a book on Java for programmers. He enjoys commercial programming and has co-developed large distributed systems in process scheduling and product configuration.