I'm half way through this O'Reilly book and it is inspiring. I can tell you from experience that looking at well designed code is a real pleasure. This book is a collection of essays about computer code. Most of the essays do a great job at taking a particular piece of code and explaining something about that code that makes it stand out as beautiful for one reason or another. If you care about the craft of creating computer programs you will probably enjoy this book. This book had me hooked immediately when it's first essay was by none other than Brian Kernighan.
Beautiful Code
I'm half way through this O'Reilly book and it is inspiring. I can tell you from experience that looking at well designed code is a real pleasure. This book is a collection of essays about computer code. Most of the essays do a great job at taking a particular piece of code and explaining something about that code that makes it stand out as beautiful for one reason or another. If you care about the craft of creating computer programs you will probably enjoy this book. This book had me hooked immediately when it's first essay was by none other than Brian Kernighan.
