Additional Resources
Most programming textbooks say a few words about layout and style, but thorough discussions of programming style are rare; discussions of layout are rarer still. The following books talk about layout and programming style:
Kernighan, Brian W. and Rob Pike. The Practice of Programming Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999. Chapter 1 of this book discusses programming style focusing on C and C++.
Vermeulen, Allan, et al. The Elements of Java Style. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Misfeldt, Trevor, Greg Bumgardner, and Andrew Gray. The Elements of C++ Style. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Kernighan, Brian W., and P. J. Plauger. The Elements of Programming Style, 2d ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1978. This is the classic ...
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