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Book SynopsisThe design of application programming interfaces can affect the behavior, capabilities, stability, and ease of use of end-user applications. This book helps you learn how to design a good API for large-scale long-term projects. With C++ code to illustrate each concept, it covers the various strategies of API development.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Qualities 2. Patterns 3. Design 4. Styles 5. C++ Usage 6. Performance 7. Versioning 8. Documentation 9. Testing 10. Scripting 11. Extensibility Appendix A: Libraries Bibliography Index
