I came into this thread hoping to find the suggestion near the top. Beyond his credibility as the creator of Tcl, in the talk he gave at Google about the book

I came into this thread hoping to find the suggestion near the top. Beyond his credibility as the creator of Tcl, in the talk he gave at Google about the book [1] he describes the course he teaches that was the inspiration for the book. The course is to write a word processor with a team and extended it with features over the semester, swapping codebases between teams so occasionally you have to work with other's code. Essentially the largest possible code project you can fit in one semester. Along the way, Ousterhout will give a deep code review of the each project. I think it must be very insightful to see the same project implemented so many ways, and to see what works in terms of simplicity and extensibility. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY