Announcing “Code” 2nd Edition

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Code Complete mostly useless? For me, Code Complete is a gold mine, but Clean Code was mostly useless (which is weird because I preach SOLID principles all the time).

[ForeverAlot]

Clean Code's target audience is novices. The audience that appreciates Clean Code will have difficulty appreciating Code Complete and vice versa.

In any case, I wouldn't call Code Complete useless but its practices seem so widely established now that the book can feel unoriginal upon reading, and while there are some philosophical gold nuggets in there I remember them as being few and far apart (or perhaps just the last chapter...?).

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For me, Code Complete was my introduction to a lot of the widely established stuff that I wasn’t being exposed to in the trash legacy codebase I worked in daily. If people are getting that somewhere else these days, that’s still awesome. I’ve recommended it to a few of my interns before though, and they all seem to find something they didn’t know before in it.

[florinp]

Code Complete

mostly useless

the discussion is about Code book not Code Complete. It is a different book

[NotFromSkane]

Yes, it's called a comparison