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I have a hard time believing many people have read Code Complete cover to cover, unless perhaps they're older and it was a long time ago before that was much be
by cdr 16y ago
I have a hard time believing many people have read Code Complete cover to cover, unless perhaps they're older and it was a long time ago before that was much better to do. It's so dry that I can't get more than a couple of chapters without falling asleep.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoYour comment illustrates a problem with the original submission: It's idiosyncratic. It says more about the writer than the subject. The various books are really different, people's reading strategies are different, people's tastes are different. People who have been in the field longer tend to have read more books. Also, whether or not you have "finished" a book tends to be irrelevant in nonfiction. If you can't get through Code Complete in one sitting, try reading it in bits and pieces - it shows signs of having been designed for that. If you haven't "finished" TAoCP... you and Knuth have something in common. (For the record, I have read all of Code Complete at none time or another, but I've barely touched TAoCP. Which is not a problem. It is good to have things to look forward to. As someone once said: What's the point of having a collection of nothing but things you have already read?)
- travem 16y agoA month or two during the daily 20 minute commute on the train will do it
- nfnaaron 16y agoI'm older, it was a long time ago, and I read it cover to cover. The weird thing is I really liked it when I read it, but I'm not sure I could finish it today.