Who Is This Book For?
If you are in high school/college or are currently a software engineer, developer, programmer, or engineering manager, or planning to become one, this book about software engineering is for you.
This book provides a varied set of mini topics, including career, technical, and process advice from the beginning of your career to senior engineer, lead engineer, and management for both technical and soft skills.
This book is arranged in collections of those topics that you can read all the way, skim through, or look up whenever you need some guidance.
Let this book provide suggestions and technical advice and offer ideas, suggestions, and more throughout your career.
This book will employ practical, real-world solutions that cover a wide array of topics to give you a broad idea of the career and technologies that developers will use. It will also take a deep dive into some topics to provide valuable details and opinions/advice.
Yes, I know this book can’t obviously have everything about software engineering in it; otherwise, the book would be so big you couldn’t pick it up. 🙂
However, it does try at a high level to cover areas most software engineers might run into.
Beginner, High School, or College
If you are just considering a career or have started your path toward a software engineering degree/job, then this is the book for you. You will learn about the best things to do to prepare yourself, classes to take, languages to learn, steps to prepare for interview, best places to work, and much more.
Starting Your Career to Mid-level
There are lots of things that you likely weren’t taught in college about what life would be like once you start your job. These tips, techniques, and advice will provide the information you need, so you don’t have to learn it the hard way. There is plenty of both career and technical advice, so you don’t make the mistakes others have. Avoid the pitfalls and accelerate your career.
Senior to Expert Level
I’m sure you have read all of the books and know a lot of the material. But I bet you will still find information in this book that you will make you glad to have bought it. It can help you take your career to the next level, if you desire.