Book of the Week: Code Complete

23 Jun 2013

New programmers often ask for what books they should read once they start working. Code Complete 2nd Edition is often at or near the top of this list. This book teaches you what you didn’t learn in school. You learn how to code in school, but you don’t learn how to develop software. It is like learning to write in school versus being a novelist. This book is too thick and I am too busy to read this cover to cover, but in the 15 minutes that I took to flip through the book, I already learned something that will change the way I write code. I only wonder how many more gold nuggets are in it. Purchase Code Complete from Amazon.com or check it out from your local library.