Code Complete

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Code Complete is a software development book, written by Steve McConnell and published by Microsoft Press, urging developers to get past code and fix programming and the "big design up front" waterfall model. It is also a compendium of software construction techniques, from naming variables to deciding when to write a subroutine.Code Complete has received outstanding reviews, being widely regarded as one of the leading must-reads for software developers. The book tends to be right on top of the reading list for programmers of software development companies. It won a Jolt award in 1993.