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Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code (2012)

by Jeff Atwood(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Hyperink

review 1: I hate books that are just collections of blog posts.*** But this is Coding Horror!There are usually an easy-going cash sink: pointless, messed, un-inventive.*** But this is Coding Horror!And the price for value is outrageous, because you can read pretty much the same for free, on the blog.*** But this is Coding Horror!The resistance was futile. In the end I've bought the book. And read it. And ... it's really good. Jeff isn't just repeating cliches and obviousness. His statements, thoughts and opinions are really entertaining and made me think a bit about some topics (at least initial 60% of the book - after this milestone the quality drops a bit). I liked the citations (I still have some noted to use them later).My favourite posts? About the speed of change (interesting ... morereference to Android vs iOS), reading the source code, years of experience myth and "Version 1 sucks, but ship it anyway".I strongly recommend this book. Personally I've already bought the part II.
review 2: As the title suggests, this book covers all of the things outside of writing code that will help you develop better software and it does a pretty good job of that. If you're cheap, do realize that most of this book is simply a compilation of Jeff Atwood's blog entries, and you could just read it there. As such, the book sometimes reads more like a blog than a contiguous book. I would rate the usefulness of the information contained in this book at 5 stars, but personally I disliked the lack of continuity from one chapter to the next. However, I would still suggest it to all software developers for their own personal development. less

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