Technical Book Club: Code Complete Book #1

The first book we’re reading for our Technical Book Club is Code Complete.  Order it today if you want to read along.  I’ll provide summaries and insights as we go along.  Here are some other book recommendations and books I'm considering for this year for the Technical Book Club. 

Read this post on How to Participate, the motivation, and the first chapter.

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

Here are some goals I have in mind for the book club:

• Help students connect with great technical books that might not be covered in curriculum
• Provide an incentive to go through the books by making an online reading group
• Cover the main ideas of the book to motivate you to read the book on your own
• Going at a pace which is sustainable even if you’re working, schooling, interning, or just busy

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2009
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• Anonymous
  May 07, 2009
  It is really amazing book. Each programmer must read it again and again.

• Anonymous
  May 10, 2009
  It's too expensive,I can't afford it.

• Anonymous
  May 13, 2009
  It is really a good book! I am reading it now

• Anonymous
  May 15, 2009
  Expensive for a student without income.

• Anonymous
  May 17, 2009
  My copy has arrived this weekend, and I'm reading it now. Software metaphors are something I've never thought of before, but the topic is one I've found to be interesting. A very good read. I've made a note to myself to take the time to look up [Google] all the people mentioned in Section 2.3 to understand where they were coming from with their view points.

• Anonymous
  May 19, 2009
  @cwicker great idea!  I'd be glad to post some summaries of what you find if you want to send them to me.  My email form's in the top tabs.

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  The next sections are fairly straight-forward.  Here’s a summary of some of the keypoints: Without