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by bethling 3826 days ago
I'm the same way. Until someone loaned me a copy of Effective C++, I simply hacked code. The best practices in that book opened my mind a great deal, and really started me down the path to developing software and building systems. Now I'm the one handing junior developers my copy of the book to read, and hopefully helping them in the same way.