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Code Complete, 2nd Edition
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Code Complete, 2nd Edition

by Steve McConnell
June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
37h 55m
English
Cisco Press
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Key Points

  • Good coding practices can be achieved either through enforced standards or through more light-handed approaches.

  • Configuration management, when properly applied, makes programmers' jobs easier. This especially includes change control.

  • Good software estimation is a significant challenge. Keys to success are using multiple approaches, tightening down your estimates as you work your way into the project, and making use of data to create the estimates.

  • Measurement is a key to successful construction management. You can find ways to measure any aspect of a project that are better than not measuring it at all. Accurate measurement is a key to accurate scheduling, to quality control, and to improving your development process.

  • Programmers and managers ...

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