Recently I started reading Code Complete
, I remember looking at the first edition of this book many years ago and thinking what would Microsoft Press know about writing code. But I actually think the book is pretty good. I started looking at it after reading a review of Pragmatic Programmer complaining that the book lacked detail and specifics. This may have been done to make the book more “timeless”, but Code Complete has a lot of details that seem to have stood the test of time. Although I’m not sure how much changed between the first and second edition, probably a lot. And later the authors ofPragmatic Programmer started their own publishing company Pragmatic Programmers which has many books on applying specific programming practices, but they do still seem to keep their theory and practice books somewhat separate.
Well this article makes a good excuse to post several amazon affiliate links and get one post ahead of Ravi.
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