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A comment on Ask HN: Is "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell still a recommended read?.

Re:Ask HN: Is "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell still a rec... by radicalbyte on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @04:48AM (#35711009)
It's in the same group as Pragmatic Programmer, Refactoring, Patterns of Application Architecture and the Gang-of-Four book for me. Still recommended for junior programmers as they're all teaching the core of good design.

However seeing as the better frameworks/languages/IDEs have internalised a lot of the learnings and that the specific conventions may be outdated - so just follow the recommendations for your platform/framework.

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Re:Ask HN: Is "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell still a rec... by is_true on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:53AM (#35712870)
I feel like understanding why a framework does things in some way makes it easier to wrap my head around it.

There's a book about modernizing PHP applications that when you read it you feel you are reading about symfony's architecture.

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