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by majc2 3485 days ago
Surprised Code Complete isn't there, nor mentioned here in the comments as being missing!
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I am not. I think CC is a dated book and should become obsolete.

It propagated a couple of myths without solid evidence that should be discarded from the software culture (e.g.: 10x productivity of good programmers, the cone of uncertainty).

Also it advocates an approach that, although valid for some areas (NASA labs, embedded systems), is not valid for a lot of the software culture (web development, startups).

"Pragmatic Programmer" and "Clean Code" are much better readings, IMHO.