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Good programming stucture book?

         

bleak26

12:00 am on Mar 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Can anyone recommend a good book on approaches and theory to structuring code and web applications and integrating different programming languages / markup : PHP ,JavaScript, Java, CSS, HTML ect ect while maintaining organisation or code and an overall structure. I am not looking for web standards stuff for the individual languages or markup but methods for integrating one and another , so that you can keep you code tidy and everything logically ordered.

Luddite

4:19 am on Mar 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Not targeted directly at web applications, but "Code Complete" is full of stuff I learned the hard way.

It's a big thick door-stop of a book, but worth reading if you are new to programming.

jorj

6:19 am on Mar 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I was about to say the same. Code Complete is one of the few programming bibles. You'll not learn programming languages but why the masters in programming are doing it in one way and why is that the best way to follow. Why and how to format code, when to create functions, how to name variables, things you may think you know until you read it.

Enjoy

Easy_Coder

5:42 pm on Mar 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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code complete will change the way you think if you're not already on that side of the fence. for the better I might add...

jorj

6:02 pm on Mar 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Let me add the other excelent books (bibles) I heard about but I did not have time to read:

1. Design Patterns (written by four guys also referred as Gang of Four, sau GoF)

2. Addison Wesley - The Pragmatic Programmer--From Journeyman to Master [1999]

3.Refactoring, by Fowler [..]

saoi_jp

3:11 am on Mar 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Pragmatic Programmer really helped me, too. A well-organized book with good cross-referencing.