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Books that don't exist
> Programming Small Devices
>
> This book's aim is to help students who have been spoiled by gigabytes of
> RAM (Random Access Memory) and gigahertz processors deal with the harsher,
> leaner world of small devices. Like Müldner's _C for Java Programmers_ [1],
> it assumes readers already know how to program, and focuses on dispelling
> their misconceptions and curing their sloppy habits. What do you do when
> you don't have garbage collection? What do you do when you don't even have
> floating point, or when you have to worry about watts as well as bytes?
> Ranging over architecture, basic data structures, and neat programming
> tricks, this is an excellent introduction to programming in a world where
> nothing is free.
>
“Programming Small Devices—Not on the Shelves [2]”
I could probably use [3] a book like this, as long as it also covered
compiling and linking issues one finds in embedded systems programming.
But alas, that book does not exist. Along with seventeen other interesting
books [4] that don't exist, but should (too bad too—_Error Handling_ [5] is
something that needs to be taught, and isn't—I actually had a university
teacher tell me, “If you don't know how to handle the error, don't check for
it,” and that's pretty much the only thing I was “taught” about error
handling in college).
[1]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201702797/conmanlaborat-20
[2]
http://www.third-/
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/08/06.1
[4]
http://www.third-/
[5]
http://www.third-/
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