It’s been my experience that beer works better ;)

The issue you’ll have is that building code is hella difficult to just read. It’s not written as a guide per se, it’s written reactively. Inspectors agree hired to be nitpicks, and the code is their list of nits to pick. They kinda get paid by the nit, and over time, as they find new nits, it all gets shoehorned into a big nit list, and trying to read it is hard because you’re just kinda reading a giant laundry list of that shit.

The first couple pages are also rather likely to tell you that you don’t actually need to follow it. That’s not the actual reality, but it seems common for code to say that…