Write Your Way To Success: Lessons Learned on my Path from Ordinary Developer to Author of Programming Books That Sell

© Azat Mardan 2019

Azat MardanWrite Your Way To Successhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3970-4_1

1. My Story

Azat Mardan¹ 

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San Francisco, CA, USA

 

To get things started, I’ll tell how I started in software engineering and ended up as a writer of programming books.

Humble Beginnings

I think I’ve always had an itch for creating products using virtual means, and a love for bits produced by keystrokes and the electric power in computers. The bits turn into pixels on the screen, which turn into something beautiful and useful to others. Writing code and writing books are very similar activities in this sense. In both cases, we begin with a blank file ...