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Classic Coding Tome Updated

Posted by timothy on from the new-words dept.

Tim Halloran writes "Steve McConnell has updated his book 'Code Complete' a 960 page language agnostic tome about code construction. This is the best book of its type I've ever encountered and the update is welcome (as the first edition is over a decade old...I suddenly feel as I'm getting old :-). More information, and a sample chapter are here. As a programming team lead I have provided this book to team members to get them critically thinking about how they write code."

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  1. Shouldn't This Be in the Books Section? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not like the other books that get reviewed aren't about programming... If you think of it that way, the majority of /. articles would have to be put in this section.

  2. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is a new release of a programming book, designed to render its predecessor obsolete, greeted with such enthusiasm here while a new release of Windows or Office, also designed to render its predecessor obsolete is greeted with derision?

    1. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Because in between those releases, a whole lot of bug fixing didn't get done.

      In the Windows case, I mean. Haven't read CC1 yet, wouldn't know what bugs needed to be fixed, even ...

  3. microsoft press == communists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Permission is hereby given to copy, adapt, and distribute this material as long as this notice is included on all such materials and the materials are not sold, licensed, or otherwise distributed for commercial gain.

    Uh oh, is that a viral license?? How unAmerican!

  4. MS Press isn't half as bad as... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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