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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career
Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career: 65 steps to becoming a better developer

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Key benefits

  • • Over 50 essays with practical advice on improving your programming career
  • • Practical focus gives solutions to common problems, and methods to become a better coder
  • • Includes advice for existing programmers and those wanting to begin a career in programming

Description

This is an all-purpose toolkit for your programming career. It has been built by Jordan Hudgens over a lifetime of coding and teaching coding. It helps you identify the key questions and stumbling blocks that programmers encounter, and gives you the answers to them! It is a comprehensive guide containing more than 50 insights that you can use to improve your work, and to give advice in your career. The book is split up into three topic areas: Coder Skills, Freelancer Skills, and Career Skills, each containing a wealth of practical advice. Coder Skills contains advice for people starting out, or those who are already working in a programming role but want to improve their skills. It includes such subjects as: how to study and understand complex topics, and getting past skill plateaus when learning new languages. Freelancer Skills contains advice for developers working as freelancers or with freelancers. It includes such subjects as: knowing when to fire a client, and tips for taking over legacy applications. Career Skills contains advice for building a successful career as a developer. It includes such subjects as: how to improve your programming techniques, and interview guides and developer salary negotiation strategies.

Who is this book for?

This book is useful for programmers of any ability or discipline. It has advice for those thinking about beginning a career in programming, those already working as a fully employed programmer, and for those working as freelance developers.

What you will learn

  • • Improve your soft skills to become a better and happier coder
  • • Learn to be a better developer
  • • Grow your freelance development business
  • • Improve your development career
  • • Learn the best approaches to breaking down complex topics
  • • Have the confidence to charge what you re worth as a freelancer
  • • Succeed in developer job interviews

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This is a great resource for programmers of any ability or discipline. It goes beyond "learn how to code" books in the sense that it shows you how to get into the world of coding, how to pick a language, stay motivated when things get complicated, build a portfolio, find clients and what questions to ask during a job interview.The book counts 64 short chapters that are very well-written (a good coder knows how to structure information and don't repeat him/herself) and informative. There are three major parts: part 1 covers coder skills, explaining how to become a better coder after starting to code. Part 2 covers freelancer skills, whereas part 3 covers career skills, such as interview guides and how to practice programming techniques.I can recommend this book to anyone interested in how to become a better coder, whether you have coding experience or not. The book answered many questions I had after two years of self-studying various programming languages. The biggest advice was to take it slow and never stop learning.
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Some errors in the text of book, many part is repeat in the book. Please editing and correct this erros...
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