[Silhouette]

Has anybody here read the first edition, and what was your impression of it?

It's a decent book, though obviously looking a bit dated now, particularly in the OO-centric presentation. I would confidently recommend it to someone like a junior developer at work or a keen self-taught programmer who had figured out the basic mechanics and was starting to explore ideas about building and maintaining bigger systems. I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone further down the path, though, just because the techniques described tend to be quite simple and they're mostly things that people learn with experience anyway.