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Code Complete
Steve McConnell ISBN 9780735635074
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Steve McConnell ISBN 9780735635074
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This book by Steve McConnell came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Jeff Atwood. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Take a strategic approach to software construction, and produce superior products, with this fully updated edition of Steve McConnell's critically praised and award-winning guide to software development best practices. Widely considered one of the best practical guides to programming, Steve McConnell's original CODE COMPLETE has been helping developers write better software for more than a decade. Now this classic book has been fully updated and revised with leading-edge practices, and hundreds of new code samples, illustrating the art and science of software construction.
“it's from a book by Steve McConnell code complete which is where my favorite programming but still probably my number one programming book for anyone to read”— Jeff Atwood
The guest here is Jeff Atwood: Co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, author of the Coding Horror blog, and founder of the open-source community platform Discourse. Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood on community-building, the joy of programming, strict systems, and why coding eventually means writing in English.
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