I totally agree. Code Complete was my road map to a new field, full of recommendations for other books to read. I gave away my first two copies of the first e

I totally agree. Code Complete was my road map to a new field, full of recommendations for other books to read. I gave away my first two copies of the first edition, and eventually bought the second edition. It didn't have the same magic. I've looked for it in other books, like The Pragmatic Programmer, The Practice of Programming, and others, but it's like The Sixth Sense (or The Crying Game or The Usual Suspects): you can only see it for the first time once.