Street Coder: The rules to break and how to break them

Computer science theory quickly collides with the harsh reality of professional software development. This wickedly smart and devilishly funny beginner\'s guide shows you how to get the job done by prioritizing tasks, making quick decisions, and knowing which rules to break.

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I\'ve just finished the digital copy of this content-packed 274 pages of insightful technical guide and it definitely goes onto my list of useful sources for software developers, CS students, and even technical leads.

Asil etin-Aufricht, Team Lead, Software Development, KPMG Austria

In Street Coder you will learn:

    Data types, algorithms, and data structures for speedy software development
    Putting "bad" practices to good use
    Learn to love testing
    Embrace code breaks and become friends with failure
    Beginner-friendly insight on code optimization, asynchronous programming, parallelization, and refactoring

Street Coder: Rules to break and how to break them is a programmer\'s survival guide, full of tips, tricks, and hacks that will make you a more efficient programmer. It takes the best practices you learn in a computer science class and deconstructs them to show when theyre beneficialand when they aren\'t!

This book\'s rebel mindset challenges status quo thinking and exposes the important skills you need on the job. You\'ll learn the crucial importance of algorithms and data structures, turn programming chores into programming pleasures, and shatter dogmatic principles keeping you from your full potential. Welcome to the streets!

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
Fresh-faced CS grads, bootcampers, and other junior developers lack a vital quality: the street smarts of experience. To succeed in software, you need the skills and discipline to put theory into action. You also need to know when to go rogue and break the unbreakable rules. Th is book is your survival guide.

About the book
Street Coder teaches you how to handle the realities of day-to-day coding as a software developer. Self-taught guru Sedat Kapanoglu shares down-and-dirty advice thats rooted in his personal hands-on experience, not abstract theory or ivory-tower ideology. Youll learn how to adapt what youve learned from books and classes to the challenges youll face on the job. As you go, youll get tips on everything from technical implementations to handling a paranoid manager.

What\'s inside

    Beginner-friendly insights on code optimization, parallelization, and refactoring
    Put bad practices to good use
    Learn to love testing
    Embrace code breaks and become friends with failure

About the reader
For new programmers. Examples in C#.

About the author
Sedat Kapanoglu is a self-taught programmer with more than 25 years of experience, including a stint at Microsoft.

Table of Contents
1 To the streets
2 Practical theory
3 Useful anti-patterns
4 Tasty testing
5 Rewarding refactoring
6 Security by scrutiny
7 Opinionated optimization
8 Palatable scalability
9 Living with bugs

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ISBN-10

1617298379

ISBN-13

978-1617298370

Publisher

Manning

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35.49

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PDF

Page No.

272

Sedat Kapanoglu

Sedat Kapanoglu is a self-taught software developer. He was born in Turkey to parents from former Yu ...

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"This is the book that I wish I'd had when I started in the world of application development."
Janek Lpez, Fosh Tech

"A must-read for every developer level!"
Vincent Delcoigne, Wavenet

"Full of solid real-world programming advice with a touch of humor."
Samuel Bosch, ILVO

"I started my career as a street coder, and wish I had read this book at that time so I could have avoided many detours and saved a few years of my career."
Xu Yang, Ansteel Group

About the Author

Sedat Kapanoglu is a self-taught programmer with more than 25 years of experience, including a stint at Microsoft.

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