Building a Career in Software, 1st ed. A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Software Industry
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
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.
Along the way, the author discovered a love of mentorship and had the good fortune to mentor tens of talented engineers. Those engineers inspired him with their hundreds of questions about career paths, technical tradeoffs, and day-to-day effectiveness; when a short blog post on those themes brought a riot ofresponses about maturing professionals' need for guidance, the author set out to fill the gap with this book.
Date de parution : 09-2020
Ouvrage de 243 p.
15.5x23.5 cm