Has anyone here read pic related? Is it a good book / worth

>1993
Written in a time when Windows was actually okay. I imagine that a lot of what's written in it is no longer applicable, or just flat-out obsolete. Could be worth a read just for fun, though.

>>60098882
You should already know everything in this book. Really.

The problem with this book is that for a beginner, it doesn't really make sense as the concepts are a little advanced. By the time you are ready to be able to read it, you should already know and practice 99% of the concepts in the book

It's literally common sense

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>>60098882
>If not, what are some good books that teach good software design?

This series

>>60098934
2nd edition was published in 2004, I imagine core programming concepts haven't changed too much since then but maybe the information is somewhat obsolete.

>>60098942
Hmm.. it seems like a book written by someone who has been programming for their whole life is going to give me a lot more information that I can learn through trial and error in a few years though.

>>60098975
This actually seems really interesting and it looks like you can read the whole thing online for free too, I'll definitely check this out later.

>>60098882
A lot of programming books are basically scams filled with "common sense" stuff that you either already know, or has been repeated 1000 times before, in better textbooks.

There's a reason nobody actually reads "the mythical man-month" or "the pragmatic programmer", it's all stuff you've absorbed over the 30 years since they've been published.

>>60099131
How do I find those "better textbooks" then?

>>60098934
First edition is excellent and most of what he discusses is applicable today. It's a not a book filled with specific and dated code examples, but a book about design and architecture.

>>60098882
Good if you've been developing software less than 1-2 years otherwise what >>60098942 said