Code Complete

The best coding book I ever read, I've even bought copies for friends & family. It will teach you how to code like a pro, qualifying you for higher-level programming jobs even with less years of experience. Hopefully the latest edition has some web programming examples too, but that's a detail.

If you've had to struggle through maintaining code written by others who haven't a clue about how to name functions or variables, this book is a great way to point them in the right direction. I'm a Computer Science major who has programmed professionally for 20 years, and this book really polished my skills. If Steve's guidelines are followed, readable code is the result that requires very few comments to be understandable. This book was strongly recommended reading at my previous job and rightly so.

Dated material and most of it should be obvious without saying.

I don't particularly enjoy reading thick books unless they are of reference type. This is a pretty thick book for the subject but overall it is worth it because it can be used as a reference tool. The examples are very light on object oriented content and heavy on procedural language examples such a 'C'. There is no Java (didn't exist) and the tools noted are definatly of an older generation. However this is an excellent read and should be on everyone's "...on a slow rainy day I would do this..." list.

Easy to understand. Good book.

Still one of the best books on coding practice

There is no other work to compete with McConnell's Code Complete. Nearly unreadable end to end, it is an excellent reference for jr and mid level developers and managers to help understand the nuace of what programming really is.

McConnell does just an excellent job explaining much of the rationale behind some Good Things when writing procedural code. I'm an RPG programmer and learnt many good things. Recommended!

Un livre très complet sur la façon de programmer, qui fourmille d'exemple et de justification par des études (un chapitre entier sur l'utilisation de goto ou de fonctions recursives). Bien évidemment le livre est axé sur la lisibilité du code et la façon de le rendre encore plus lisible. Un des nombreux conseils de de réécrire le code tant qu'il ne parait pas suffisamment clair. Bien qu'il date de quelques années, tous ces conseils de bon sens et très argumentés sont toujours valables. Les exemples sont surtout données en pascal, c, basic, mais l'ensemble des reflexions reste applicable dans tous les langages de programmation. Tous les aspects d'un projet informatique sont passés en revues de la conception au déploiement en passant par les tests, l'intégration et l'optimisation, tout en restant concentré sur la programmation elle-même. Une très bonne lecture pour tout programmeur qui souhaite progresser.

This was my first book on software craftmenship and it was a brilliant introduction to it. I also purchased the second edition digitally, but after 5 years of purchasing this I still have the physical copy and occasionally read through it. I would recommend also reading Test Driven Development by Example and Clean Code.

先年、IEEE Software のEditor-of-Cheif を担当していた著者の考えが明確に示された、ソフトウェア技術者への手引書として、相応しい内容である。 理論を実践する際の留意点を、開発現場の立場で、解説している。 初心者にとても適切な指導を与える書籍である。

Das Buch ist im guten Zustand und die Lieferung war auch prima. Sehr preiswert kann das Buch auch nur empfehlen wenn man gescheit mit programmieren will. Natürlich ist die neueste Edition aktueller. Doch nach nachforschen und durchgucken des Buchs kommt man auf den Schluss dass viele der hier besprochenen Sachen auch in der ersten Edition noch immer aktuell. Ich glaube ich holle mir auch die neue Edition, einfach mal um eine Historische Entwicklung zu sehen. Wahrscheinlich sind die gemeinsamen Punkte der Editionen auch noch für die nächsten 10-15 Jahre gültig.

I'm not done reading it yet but so far it's great!