English 151201

• faucet
  • The faucet has developed a drip.
  • That faucet dribbles badly.
  • Water is dripping from that leaky faucet.
• This book will give you insight into why you’ve had problems in the past and will show you how to avoid problems in the future.
• The programming practices described here will help you keep big projects under control and help you maintain and modify software successfully as the demands of your projects change.
• self-taught programmers.
• The practical lore of good coding is often passed down slowly in the ritualistic tribal dances of software architects, project leads, analysts, and more experienced programmers.
• It gets into nitty-gritty construction details such as steps in building classes, ins and outs of using data and control structures, debugging, refactoring, and code-tuning techniques and strategies.
• To keep things concrete and understandable, we will couch our discussion in the context of an x86 system running Linux and using the standard ELF object file format.
• If this book were a dog, it would nuzzle up to construction, wag its tail at design and testing, and bark at the other development activities.
• Verifying that the groundwork has been laid so that construction can proceed successfully.
• Polishing code by carefully formatting and commenting it.
• Where the rubber meets the road is the most important point for something, the moment of truth. An athlete can train all day, but the race is where the rubber meets the road and they'll know how good they really are.
• read something (from) cover to cover
  to read something from the beginning to the end. The newspaper comes before breakfast and my husband reads it cover to cover while he's eating.