Early vs. Beginning Coders

Re:Early vs. Beginning Coders by MattGrommes on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @02:18PM (#9734099)

Charles Petzold's book 'Code' has a lot of this very basic, low-level information. It basically builds up from basic information theory to computers. It's not going to have everything you're looking for but I was surprised how much of it I "knew" without recalling where I learned it or how it connected to other things.

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Re:Early vs. Beginning Coders by mdpopescu on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @02:23PM (#9734135)

I had a similar experience with Code Complete (I know most of what's in it but I have no idea when I learned it). I don't know if it's as basic as @schoen wanted but it might be close.

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Re:Early vs. Beginning Coders by WalterGR on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @07:31PM (#9735921)

    I don't know if it's as basic as @schoen wanted
    but it might be close.

I remember Code Complete as being a guide for advanced developers on how to take their craft to the next level.

Does my memory deceive me?

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Re:Early vs. Beginning Coders by btilly on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:38PM (#9736130)

You will likely have seen advanced developers recommending it. But it is meant to teach routine daily stuff like how to name variables, lay out functions, why we want abstraction layers, and the like. And it really is aimed at people who may know nothing about code construction.

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Re:Early vs. Beginning Coders by WalterGR on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:52PM (#9736169)

Okay, thanks. I read it cover-to-cover before I interviewed at Microsoft my senior year in college. But - like the developer in Zed's article - I must have forgotten. :)

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Re:Early vs. Beginning Coders by schoen on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @02:20PM (#9734118)

I have that book and was impressed by it. I'll take a look over it again and see how I think it does on this stuff.

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