A developer always seeks greater understanding of software engineering and design. Sometimes luck intervenes and a mentor helps to advance one's abilities. However, there are only so many of these... More > rare encounters, and thus, not everyone is afforded such opportunities. This book attempts to remove luck as a limiting factor for one's professional growth in Smalltalk by disseminating material learned over several years of mentoring.< Less
The present work, divided in two volumes, illustrates programming techniques every Smalltalk developer should master. The thorough treatment also describes the method to efficiently develop new... More > skills, and exemplifies valuable lessons learned over more than a decade of experience.< Less
This volume, divided in two parts, provides a strong foundation for hashing, hash functions, and their application in the context of software development.
While the programming language used in this... More > book is Smalltalk, the information provided applies to other programming languages as well.
The first part develops hashing and hash functions from first principles. The behavior characteristics required of hash functions are examined in detail. A thorough description of how hash functions are constructed follows, complete with a rich survey of existing hash functions.
However, existing hash functions are often inappropriate for the task at hand. To address this problem, the second part shows how to build novel hash functions that are both efficient and highly effective for the range of data types that occur in practice.
The book includes over 230 exercises. Together with their answers, provided in an appendix, these exercises further develop the material in both familiar and new ways.< Less
A developer always seeks greater understanding of software engineering and design. Sometimes luck intervenes and a mentor helps to advance one's abilities. However, there are only so many of these... More > rare encounters, and thus, not everyone is afforded such opportunities. This book attempts to remove luck as a limiting factor for one's professional growth in Smalltalk by disseminating material learned over several years of mentoring.< Less
About Andres Valloud
Andrés has developed in Smalltalk since 1996. He is a Smalltalks conference host, and a founding member of the FAST foundation. He won the 2006 Smalltalk Solutions Coding Contest, and ran the coding competition in 2007 and 2008. He currently works for Cincom Systems as a lead VM engineer.
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