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Believed by many of our customers to be the best practical guide to writing commercial software, and Highly Recommended.

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Here is a thorough expert look at the intricate process of commercial software development. The text is rich in example code, contains powerful insights on managing technical yet creative people, and examines each milestone in software development in considerable detail. Ideal for professional, self-taught, and student programmers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic & Essential Book for a Programmer, Mar 7 2004

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S. Kubasek (Garfield, New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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If you are a programmer, get this book ASAP! This will make you a better programmer and give you guidence for continual improvement. This is a great book!

The only bad thing about this book is that it is a little outdated (goes up to C language; does not mention C++ or Java), but I think Code Complete 2 is coming out soon (June 2004).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Recommendation, Feb 24 2004

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Slavisa Nesic (Serbia and Montenegro) - See all my reviews
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I am not jet finished reading this book, so maybe later I shall have some additional comments. The book is very old (copyright 1993), but it is valuable asset for professional programmer.
This book is the best example of the rule "the more you know the better is your benefit of reading a book". For example, although book does not deal with object oriented programming (as far as I read till now), even if you are professinal programmer who is in object programming you will get something that you very probably missed - a lot of important and fine details that will help you be a better programmer in object world. It is very hard to explain the profit you get with this book, but it is: you get your knowledge of coding polished to the maximum.
To return to the example of OOP (object oriented programming) this book will tell you about the cohesion of your methods (the book calls them traditional names, routines) and sorts of coupling; everything is the pure ground for OOP but from the perspective of traditional programming; even in OOP books you cannot find easily such explanations, and that done in traditional programming.
If you are a beginner, this book will show you how to name the routines and variables, will show you that statistically short routines of say 20 lines are more prone to errors per line of code than routines of 100 lines! Anyway, I do not want to spoil the pleasure of reading the book: don't expect too much from it, but if you are a brilliant programmer who appreciate precision and polishing of your knowledge, you will be on a right track if you choose this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite book on general programming advice, Jan 13 2004

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ws__ (Hamburg, Germany) - See all my reviews

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This is a true must have. This is a true must read. It is already quite old but still fresh and up to date to our everyday problems.

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