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Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers

You're reading from   Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers Embark on your software engineering journey without exhaustive courses and bulky tutorials

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812115
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jasmine Greenaway Jasmine Greenaway
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Preface 1. Part 1: Software Engineering Basics
2. Chapter 1: Defining Software Engineering FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Software Engineering Life Cycle 4. Chapter 3: Roles in Software Engineering 5. Part 2: Introduction to Programming
6. Chapter 4: Programming Languages and Introduction to C# 7. Chapter 5: Writing Your First C# Program 8. Chapter 6: Data Types in C# 9. Chapter 7: Flow Control in C# 10. Chapter 8: Introduction to Data Structures, Algorithms, and Pseudocode 11. Chapter 9: Applying Algorithms in C# 12. Chapter 10: Object-Oriented Programming 13. Part 3: Software Engineering – the Profession
14. Chapter 11: Stories from Prominent Job Roles in Software Development 15. Chapter 12: Coding Best Practices 16. Chapter 13: Tips and Tricks to Kickstart Your Software Engineering Career 17. Assessments 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Mobile software engineers write software for devices, most notably mobile phones. The most popular mobile platforms, iOS and Android, are separate software development environments that have some common themes between them. iOS engineers will often write in the Swift language, while Android engineers will often write in Java or Kotlin, all of which can be categorized as backend languages. There are also cross-platform options for mobile developers who want to be able to support multiple mobile platforms with one backend language. Mobile software engineers may also have specialties but can be categorized as full stack developers for mobile applications. The majority of them can handle all aspects of a mobile application from the user interface (UI) to the backend and serve the same purpose as other backend languages. While these responsibilities seem to mirror full stack software engineering by being able to work with the visual and backend parts, there...

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