Code - Component Developer Magazine

I've been writing code for 10 years professionally, as a full stack software engineer. I've had associate, senior, and lead titles. When I saw a coding magazine, I was beside myself with curiosity and excitement. Two months later my first issue has arrived. Let us dig in.The cover of the magazine is very inviting. Lots of popular frameworks, languages, and technologies are listed in the banner and footer. Good colors.When we open the magazine, the first page is a full page advertisement. I skip through and count roughly 5 more. There are only 74 pages in the magazine. Additional advertising is sprinkled throughout the remaining pages. There is even a column on who to reach about ad purchasing.Back on topic, the page quality is very good, my hat is off to whoever chose the paper. Fantastic quality.First content page is an editorial biography. Next we're getting into the actual articles. I'm familiar with about 70% of the content already, and have at least heard of the remainder(through coworkers, other teams, colleagues, etc).The mini-bios of the engineers who wrote the articles lead me to think im about to be taught by a master. I don't recognize their names, but their work in pluralsight, oreily, AWS, microsoft, etc gives me great expectations.And that is where this review goes south, each article is just way too elementary. Some are basically modified versions of 'getting started' tutorial from websites. Albeit some of the tips are indeed great for newbies. I just didn't grasp that was the target audience.Would I buy it again? No. Would I suggest it to those with little experience? Maybe, but probably not. The magazine just feels like a company trying to advertise their services.

Grandson loves it!!

I've been reading this magazine since 2000, [the first issue I think] when it was very Visual FoxPro-centric. It has always presented excellent articles about cutting edge technologies, and presented development techniques that are useful in real world development environments.The focus is now on the .NET/Microsoft technologies, and there is always something in each issue I can use to improve my skill set.

CoDe is really the best .NET mag out there today. While MSDN is often too technical and Visual Studio mag is often too "lite", CoDe gives good examples from programmers who know what they are doing. I highly recommend it!