Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
by:
Andy Oram (author)
Greg Wilson (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780596106935 (0596106939)
Publish date: June 26th 2007
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Pages no: 620
Edition language: English
Series: Theory In Practice
A mixed bag, but overall, worth reading. Pros: I think programmers do not spend enough time studying the code of others, so books like this are an important step in encouraging the study of this craft. Each chapter of the book is written by a different (often famous) programmer, uses a different lan...
There are some great essays here and some long and winding, less interesting, essays here. I read them out of order and sporadically and enjoyed the book, but there was a part of me that was disappointed. Perhaps there's no way to avoid too high of expectations with a title like this. But overall...
11 years ago
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