Jeanne reviewed Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck and gave it a whopping 10 out of 10 horseshoes.

Implementation Patterns is a great book to make better Java developers. The focus is to make us think about writing more readable and maintainable code. The audience is Java developers who know the basics of the language. If you have more experience, you will understand points on a deeper level. If you are newer to Java, you will form good habits.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.

A question about how to comment code so it's understandable by other people leads to a discussion on the various ways to comment Java code -and whether it should be necessary in the first place- in this thread.