Editing Code Complete (section)

{{Short description|1993 book by Steve McConnell}}
{{about|the software development book|the software release life cycle stage "code complete"|Software release life cycle}}
{{lead too short|date=February 2016}}

{{Infobox book
| name           = Code Complete
| image          = Code Complete 1st edition.jpg
| caption        = First edition cover
| alt            = Cover image of first edition
| author         = [[Steve McConnell]]
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| subject        = [[Computer programming]]
| published      = {{plainlist|
* 1993 (1st ed.)
* 2004 (2nd ed.)}}
| pages          = 914 (2nd ed.)
| isbn = 978-0-7356-1967-8
| isbn_note = (2nd ed.)
| congress       = QA75.5-76.95
}}

'''''Code Complete''''' is a [[software development]] book, written by [[Steve McConnell]] and published in 1993 by [[Microsoft Press]], encouraging developers to continue past [[Software development process#Code and fix|code-and-fix]] programming and the [[big design up front]] and [[waterfall model]]s. It is also a compendium of software construction techniques, which include techniques from naming variables to deciding when to write a subroutine.