The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams by John Sonmez (PDF)

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Developer careers are tough……and few know the secrets to land top jobs.Why isn’t talent enough?John Sonmez discovered that technical knowledge alone isn’t enough to break through to thenext income level – developers need “soft skills” like the ability to learn new technologies,communicate clearly with management and consulting clients, negotiate the best rate, and uniteteammates in working toward a common goal.Nobody teaches these soft skills.This guide contains strategies for everyone from Entry-Level to Senior Developers and givesguidance for Brand New Developers as well.You’ll learn how to:Find and Fill the Gaps in your Technical KnowledgeChoose between Contract Work or a Salaried PositionWhich Should you Learn First – JavaScript, C#, Python, C++?Get a College Degree with Maximum Credibility and Minimum DebtDecide if a Coding Bootcamp is a Value or a Scam.Plus, much more…This book will take you inside the recruiting industry. What that “friendly” recruiter really wantsfrom you, how they get paid, and how to avoid getting pigeonholed into a job you’ll hate.It will change your career.You’ll love this insider’s manual to success, because the difference between the MVPs and thecode monkeys is knowing how to manage the skills nobody mentions.Get it now.

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⭐If you’ve never had a job or you’ve never seen another book like this, then maybe this book is OK. But honestly, there is nothing new in this book that wasn’t written 20 years ago when I started working. This looks to be nothing more than a bunch of rehashed job search common sense.– The writing style is horrible. It’s basically written in bullet points, with a bunch of white space, and bolding. Take out all the unnecessary white space and this book is easily half it’s current size. Throw in decent writing style and you’d get to a third its size.– Much of the stuff in here is incredibly basic. I presume if you’ve never left your parents’ basement all this may be new stuff to you, but most of it is just “common sense”, which again may not be as common as I think.– Much of the book seems like nothing more than advertising. Heck, there is an Amazon link to the book in the book. You’ve already bought it, why do you need a link to it?– The chapter on boot camps is non-sense and reads like an advertisement for boot camps. Before you sign-up for a boot camp, please, please, please talk to someone that attended one. Multiple people. And be highly skeptical of the glowing reviews that claim attending a boot camp was just shy of reaching nirvana. Boot camps vary greatly in quality and despite all the glowing reviews you’ll see online, there are a lot of negative experiences that never get posted because of pressure from the boot camps themselves. Some boot camps even threaten legal action if you speak of them negatively anywhere on the Internet. Also, many boot camps these days instruct you not to put the boot camp on your resume because of the negative perception/experience employers have had with boot camps. Even “top” boot camps are doing this. I’ll leave out names, but it should be evident which are the top boot camps if you’re looking into attending one. I’m not saying there aren’t good boot camps, but just cautioning you to do a LOT of research and investigative work before dropping $10k+ on what is essentially an intro to web development course.– Regarding hiring a resume writer, again, buyer beware. I just did such a thing through CareerCup, the site related to Hacking the Coding Interview, and for not a little money my new resume got a little wordsmithing and moved one section around on the page. Essentially no material change. So either I’m an awesome resume writer or I just had a really bad experience. Again, perhaps if you really have no idea how to even approach writing a resume, a resume writer might be a good investment. But I’ve compared my resume, that I wrote on my own by doing nothing more than following images of resume samples from an interwebs search, against samples pro writers are showing on their sites as samples of their work, and there is no material difference. So at least to start, save yourself the $500 mentioned in the book and find a good looking sample on the web and use that as a template.– I could go on…I would say the only real benefit to this book is that is gives a high level summary of the major topics of finding a job and what you need to know to be a decent dev. But you can do this easily through reading blogs and such and copying/pasting into the word processor or note taker of your choice. That’s the only reason I gave it 2 stars, for the summary.

⭐THAT is a great book for any level of a software developer. I enjoyed reading this ultimate software developer’s guide, and I have learned a lot from it. I am extremely motivated now to take my career beyond a simple software engineer role.Are you just starting? – Then this is for you! It will save you countless hours of frustration and thousands of dollars. John explains well different effective methods of becoming a software developer, such as: going to college, attending coding boot camps or teaching yourself. As a self-taught programmer, I have extremely enjoyed the section about self-teaching. John also will teach you an important strategy of learning, that allows you to learn most of the things you will need as a professional developer only at a one fifth of the effort.Are you looking for THAT first job in the software industry? – Then this is for you! John will teach you different ways of entering into the software industry, such as starting with an internship, getting a full-time job without experience, switching from other career and getting your foot in the door via different means. John will tell you how to build your resume, go through the interview process and how to negotiate your salary. As well, you will learn how to quit the job properly when you need it.Already working in the industry and want to improve? – Then this is for you! John will tell you in detail about all the concepts in software engineering, starting from most important programming languages, different platforms and technologies, methodologies and techniques, and ending with how to sell your ideas, how to dress and how to be a leader.Looking for ways to go beyond Software Engineering role? – Then this is for you! John shows different ways, how you, as a software engineer, can transcend being just an employee in some business. On how to build your name and become known to the software industry and even world. On how to meet new people and keep your skills up to date. On how to be in a leadership position, or even build your own business. On how to create a blog or go around the world and speak at the conferences.​And last but not least, John will give you a lot of resources and references to books that you can use to go even beyond all of that.

⭐I was going to post the heading “I wish I had this 10 years ago” but someone beat me to it. Thinking about it, I’d rather have a time machine with the critical knowledge I have now and armed with John’s book. This book really is the missing manual.I’ll admit I’ve been a follower of John’s work for 2 and a half years now after having read the fantastic book Soft Skills: A Developer’s Life Manual. Ever since then I would argue having implemented some of his advice my career has gone from strength to strength. The greatest strengths in his writing is that it pumps you up and gets you motivated.While I don’t agree with everything John has said in the book I would say I agree with 98% of it. I have over 10 years experience working in the software industry and echo a lot of his thoughts in many different areas including his discussion around bootcamps and whether University education these days is really the right option. There’s also a fantastic section on how to learn anything quickly. Given John has developed 55 different Pluralsight courses in a short space of time I’m fairly confident he knows what he’s doing…Some may argue that the advice given in this book crosses over with a lot of John’s online material at SimpleProgrammer.com, however, if you want it all organised in an easily digestible format this is the book to purchase. It’s absolutely worth it’s weight in gold.Following John’s advice I’ve built numerous blogs, spoken at conferences (through invites), been invited to webinars and been approached to produce online content. I’ve also received a promotion, increased salary by more than 25% during this time. Whilst I can’t put everything down to John, because ultimately the buck stops with you, I can attribute his books for kick-starting my career into overdrive.If you’re stuck in a dead-end job, want to transfer over to a promising career as a software developer or simply want to give your current career a bit of an adrenaline kick then buy this book.

⭐This book is the perfect guide to find the software developer career path that is right for you and to understand what you need to do and learn in order to get there. If you are new to software development you must read the book cover to cover. There is tons of great advice in it. If you are a more experienced developer like me you can skim the book more quickly and fully read the content you are more interested about (especially the section on Advancing Your Career). I particularly liked the emphasis on the importance of code structure and readability, testing and automation, investing deeply on a single programming language and stack, how to learn more effectively, the power of inbound marketing, the difference between freelancing and contracting, how the recruitment industry work, how to deal with people in your team and toxic people, the importance of giving and contributing to the technical community and how to go and create your own business. John also shares many of his personal experiences and failures that is extremely valuable so that you can try to avoid making the same mistakes he made. John’s story is very inspiring and motivating for me and it’s a great reminder that there is no limit in what you can achieve as a software developer. During the course of the entire book John provides recommended resources and books that can significantly help to advance in your career. Overall I highly recommend this book to orient yourself in the complicated world of software development. I am being following John for a long time now and I know how much he loves simplicity. I have to say this book is really making it simple for you. Go, read the book and more importantly apply it in your real life.

⭐The book is HUGE, however, after reading a couple of pages I abandoned it because is quite poorly written (it’s like a bunch of blog entries stitched together)it’s also incredibly poorly written and full of grammatical errors obvious even for a non-native English speaker with no language qualifications, like me, the introduction starts with “for awhile” on its very 2nd page… an error that’s even picked up by my browser as I type

⭐Many Software Developers read books on an ongoing basis to keep their technical skills sharp but many do not do the same for the softer skills required to be a rounded professional.John makes no bones about the fact that building a successful career is hard work and requires dedication and drive. Instead he provides advice and techniques for maximising the returns on your effort investment. No punches are pulled in this book, and that’s a good thing, John tells it like it is from his own experience.The book is broken down in the sections targeted at different periods in a Developers career, from starting out to being an experienced professional. But don’t think that, if like me, you have 15+ years experience you will only benefit from the latter sections. We can all benefit from reviewing our foundation technical knowledge – and our soft skills are no different. Even if the earlier sections show you that you are on the right track this is valuable information.I’ve previously read John’s “Soft Skills” book and while there was some cross-over with this one I am happy to have them both on my bookshelf – this book taking some aspects to a higher level.

⭐The format of this book is almost unreadable – I have adhd and it’s giving me a headache.Why is there a space after every single line?There’s a reason people don’t write like this.This book could have been a quarter of the size.What a waste of trees.Can you do an accessible version please?

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