Code Complete, 2nd Edition

Updated reading list first posted February 2004 and last updated September 2025; selected entry date is unverified. Catalog summary, no source excerpt copied.

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Coding Horror · undated · accessed 2026-10-01

Article · Own reading recommendation

Own explicit reader-facing recommendation. Selected book appears in the recommendation passage, not merely in a quoted third-party excerpt.

Own separate post names the book among five that working programmers should own and read. Catalog summary, no source excerpt copied.

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Coding Horror · 2008-04-28 · accessed 2026-10-01

Article · Own reading recommendation

Own explicit reader-facing recommendation. Selected book appears in the recommendation passage, not merely in a quoted third-party excerpt.

Conditional advice for readers with six to twelve months of full-time coding. The source names the work without asserting a preferred edition.

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Rob Walling · 2007-03-20 · accessed 2026-10-01

Article · Own conditional reading advice

Own attributed recommendation and prerequisite directly inspected. Other named works are not imported in this slice.