Should I now read Steve McConnell - Perfect Code?

Question

Books

I want to buy Steve McConnell's book Perfect Code. The reviews are excellent and everyone approves of this book for learning with a programming language parallel. But that book is old and I don't know if it's worth it. Maybe there are some alternatives? But I did like the book.

Answer 1

In general, the answer to your question is that at first glance everything runs in IT, if you delve deeper, all these new js or non-js frameworks are a small fraction of what you need to know and what is changing, but at a fundamental level over the past 20 years, nothing cardinally is changing. Books on specific frameworks that do not introduce anything unusual (such as actor model) and modern reading does not make much sense (because the dock + patterns under the hood and the architectural rules are the same as before), but to understand some kind of MVC (and most do not understands what it is ala "created a daddy controllers means MVC because they write so on Habré") and now it is essentially necessary to read the records of the 70s if you suddenly want to go deeper, of course. The same goes for a lot of themes.
Ps In general, reading Perfect Code is an exceptionally good activity, like Fowler's Refactoring for example :)

Answer 2

Uncle Bob recently once again wrote in his blog that nothing has fundamentally changed in programming since the 80s.

Answer 3

This kind of books tell about approaches to solving problems and almost do not become outdated. The need to strengthen them appears in the subconscious when I got a lot of bumps in trying to write supported code, but didn’t go far) Maybe now it won’t come to you, but at least once in your life you should read it

Answer 4

Recently finished reading it. It all depends on what you know, if nothing, then the book will seem incomprehensible. Those who have been programming for a long time say that it contains many obvious things.
This is a fairly fundamental book, much of it will remain relevant even in 30 years.
My more detailed review of the book is here . For myself, I found some answers to my questions in the book and I think that in time I will return to it.