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  1. Introduction
  2. Objects and Classes
  3. Finding Duplicate Files
  4. Matching Patterns
  5. Parsing Text
  6. Running Tests
  7. An Interpreter
  8. Functions and Closures
  9. Protocols
  10. A File Archiver
  11. An HTML Validator
  12. A Template Expander
  13. A Code Linter
  14. Page Layout
  15. Performance Profiling
  16. Object Persistence
  17. Binary Data
  18. A Database
  19. A Build Manager
  20. A Package Manager
  21. Transferring Files
  22. Serving Web Pages
  23. A File Viewer
  24. Undo and Redo
  25. A Virtual Machine
  26. A Debugger
  27. Observers
  28. Generating Documentation
  29. Search
  30. File Compression
  31. A File Cache
  32. A Query Builder
  33. Concurrency
  34. Conclusion
  1. Bibliography
  2. Bonus Material
  3. Syllabus
  4. License
  5. Code of Conduct
  6. Contributing
  7. Glossary
  8. Colophon
  9. Index

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