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Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by zubiaur »

jbigelow76 wrote: post #11

No such love for us Nook users. I checked Atwood's site for maybe a posting pointing to a free epub version, no go there either. Sad panda.

You still can buy it for the kindle pc app. Then, with Calibre, you can remove the DRM and convert it to epub or whatever format is suitable for the nook.

Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by jiggy2011 »

This seems to basically be a bunch of Jeff's blog posts in book form. Some of it is interesting to facilitate discussions but how much more "effective" a programmer it will make you seems pretty dubious.

I would recommend reading the book "code complete" for more specific tips about thinking about the code you write.

Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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Post by adfadf »

zubiaur wrote: post #14
jbigelow76 wrote: post #11

No such love for us Nook users. I checked Atwood's site for maybe a posting pointing to a free epub version, no go there either. Sad panda.

You still can buy it for the kindle pc app. Then, with Calibre, you can remove the DRM and convert it to epub or whatever format is suitable for the nook.

> Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited

There is no DRM on this book, luckily enough.

Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

#19

Post by menacingly »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #15

This seems to basically be a bunch of Jeff's blog posts in book form. Some of it is interesting to facilitate discussions but how much more "effective" a programmer it will make you seems pretty dubious. I would recommend reading the book "code complete" for more specific tips about thinking about the code you write.

I second the recommendation for Code Complete. If you're looking for tactical construction advice, better to take it from someone with an established history of having constructed software.

Re: Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

#20

Post by matheusalmeida »

menacingly wrote: post #19
jiggy2011 wrote: post #15

This seems to basically be a bunch of Jeff's blog posts in book form. Some of it is interesting to facilitate discussions but how much more "effective" a programmer it will make you seems pretty dubious. I would recommend reading the book "code complete" for more specific tips about thinking about the code you write.

I second the recommendation for Code Complete. If you're looking for tactical construction advice, better to take it from someone with an established history of having constructed software.

There's no doubt that it's a very extensive book on software development and a very good one but I personally don't recommend it. If one really wants to know about software development, I find that it's much better to join an open source project and discuss the development of the project with other people than just reading about software development. It's almost the same thing as learning everything about an internal combustion engine but having no idea how to fix one.

In hindsight perhaps I shouldn't have bought the kindle edition of the book (Code Complete) because it's a very large book and it's not those kinds of books where we must read from cover to cover and I don't think it's very practical to read those books in a kindle but perhaps it's just me. Just my 2 cents.

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