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Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by buff-a on Sunday March 25, 2012 @11:13PM (#3754802)
Have to agree on Code Complete. The first edition was a load of waterfall bollocks and I couldn't believe anyone wrote code like that. It actively put me off a "proper" programming career. The second edition, apparently, reduced that shite, but by that point I wondered "if the author is just reproducing dogma, why bother?"
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Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by cpeterso on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:26AM (#3755334)
Code Complete was published in 1993, so I think it can be forgiven its emphasis on waterfall development. It back its advice by citing real studies of software project, though the projects were from the 1960/70s at big companies like IBM.
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Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by buff-a on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:21PM (#3757665)
Like I said, its a book about dogma and cherry-picked studies. The dogma and studies were wrong. So if you want books about broken dogma and studies, read Code Complete.
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