Book description
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 virtuallyevery 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.
- Discover every important nontechnical facet of professional programming as well as several key technical practices essential to the transition from student to professional
- Build relationships with your employer
- Improve your communication, including technical writing, asking good questions, and public speaking
Product information
- Title: Building a Career in Software: A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Software Industry
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2020
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484261477
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