Yesterday I finally finished reading Steve McConnell’s Code Complete – A practival handbook of software construction. I really loved reading it and I definitely learned a lot from it, but it takes a while to finish the 914 pages

If you are in the business of writing code, I recommend you to buy a copy of this book and start reading it right away!

After reading the chapter Layout and Style of the (very good) book Code Complete 2nd Edition Steve McConnell convinced me to change the way I write my functions. Before I wrote functions like this:

function functionName()
{
    ...
}

This way you have a nice line of white space between the function declaration and the inside of the function. I thought this line of white space improved the readability of the code. Steve McConnell learned me that although that may be true, it cripples the most important thing of code layout: the layout has to follow logical structure of the code. So I’m back to using this style:

function functionName() {
    ...
}

If you want to know more about this subject or anything else regarding software construction I can certainly recommend you to read Code Complete 2nd Edition.

I really enjoyed reading The Pragmatic Programmer. It made me realise that there is still a lot to learn.