Building a career in software : a comprehensive guide to success in the software industry / Daniel Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heller, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer science--Vocational guidance.

Computer science.

Programming software--Vocational guidance.

Programming software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2020.

Place of Publication:

California, United States : APress, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Software engineering education has a problem: universities and bootcamps teach aspiring engineers to write code, but they leave graduates to teach themselves the countless supporting tools required to thrive in real software companies. Building a Career in Software is the solution, a comprehensive guide to the essential skills that instructors don't need and professionals never think to teach: landing jobs, choosing teams and projects, asking good questions, running meetings, going on-call, debugging production problems, technical writing, making the most of a mentor, and much more. In over a decade building software at companies such as Apple and Uber, Daniel Heller has mentored and managed tens of engineers from a variety of training backgrounds, and those engineers inspired this book with their hundreds of questions about career issues and day-to-day problems. Designed for either random access or cover-to-cover reading, it offers concise treatments of virtually every non-technical challenge you will face in the first five years of your career—as well as a selection of industry-focused technical topics rarely covered in training. Whatever your education or technical specialty, Building a Career in Software can save you years of trial and error and help you succeed as a real-world software professional.

Contents:

Part I. Career

1. The Big Picture

2. Landing Jobs

3. Learning and Growing

4. Changes

Part II. Day to Day At the Office

5. Professional Skills

6. Working With Humans

7. Shining in an Engineering Organization

8. Leading Others

9. Adversity

10. Professional Conduct- Part III. Communication

11. A Holistic Look at Engineering Communication

12. Technical Writing

13. Effective Email

14. Describing Problems and Asking Questions

15. Public Speaking

Part IV. Technical Skills

16. Professional-Grade Code

17. Debugging

18. Building for Reliability

19. Mastering the Command Line

20. Operating Real Software.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4842-6147-X