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What the Amazon reviewer said.

A modern-day classic on software engineering, Code Complete focuses on specific practices you can use to improve your code and your ability to debug it--and ultimately deliver better, more efficient programs in less time. With every bit of advice the book proffers you'll improve your ability to write elegant, self-documenting, maintainable software. McConnell doesn't focus on the idiosyncrasies of any single language, but on the general issues developers face: naming subroutines and variables in meaningful ways, designing control structures, finding and correcting errors in code, and many, many more. Code Complete is packed with code samples demonstrating good and bad programming practices and checklists that you can use to vet your own work.

What I thought of the book.

If you studied computer science at University ahve coded continously since then and kept up with the latest trends then this book is not for you. However if you stumbled into programmng from other discipline and code reguarly and want to improve your technique then you must read this book. This book is about braking bad habits and reinforcing good ones.

I encourage most of my developers to read as much of this book as they can. Things like Strong Cohesion - Loose Coupling, formatting techniques and Asserts all lead to good maintainable code.

The book is very long so be prepare to lose alot of time in it.

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