Beautiful Code

Alexander's rating: 4.0

On Mar 5, 2011 Alexander Czernay wrote: Beautiful Code - A Collection Of Essays On Programing
Beautiful Code - The title immediately caught my attention and made me dream. I've been coding from the age of twelve and beautiful code always inspired me. I always headed for producing the most beautiful piece of code for any task - not always getting there, though. So in the end Beautiful Code looked like the perfect book to me. The book contains a selection of 33 essays written by programers coming from different industries and backgrounds. Each essay focuses on a single task or programing topic, eg. search, dictionaries or unit testing. Those tasks are usually described in good detail to understand the problem and solution the author found. For some tasks you also get a recap on the complete journey the author took to get from initial tries to final solution. The themes are widespread and there is no common topic - more specific than coding - glueing them together. Full Review >