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24 alternatives to Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
One of the best practical guides to programming
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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"The Bible" of all fundamental algorithms for programming
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
2017 · its alternatives →
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The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
2017 · its alternatives →
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Interviews with the 15 most interesting computer programmers
2015 · its alternatives →
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Essential Skills and Concepts For The Self-taught Programmer
2016 · its alternatives →
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How and why to write clean code
2015 · its alternatives →
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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2018 · jshandbook.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · packtpub.com · its alternatives →
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A broad outline of the practice of front-end engineering
2015 · its alternatives →
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