The Coding Career Handbook
INTERACTIVE COURSE

The Coding Career Handbook

Beginner

240 Lessons

10h 30min

Certificate of Completion

The Coding Career Handbook
28 Quizzes
517 Illustrations

Course Overview

The non-coding part of being a successful software engineer is very important, but also happens to be very under-discussed. This is a course about getting great coding jobs and doing well at coding jobs. Especially if you're earlier in your career, there's a lot here that you might otherwise take years to learn, and your manager will never tell you. This is NOT going to be a conventional career advice course. There is a linear discussion of Career Guides, followed by a nonlinear collection of Principles, ...Show More

Course Content

1

Getting Started

2

Part I: Your Coding Career

3

Code Newbies

4

The (First) Job Hunt

5

Junior Developer

6

From Junior to Senior

6 Lessons

7

Senior Developer

9 Lessons

8

Beyond your Coding Career

7 Lessons

9

Part II: Principles

1 Lesson

10

Learn in Public

7 Lessons

11

Clone Open Source Apps

2 Lessons

12

Know your Tools

4 Lessons

13

Specialize in the New

4 Lessons

14

Open Source Your Knowledge

7 Lessons

15

Spark Joy

8 Lessons

16

The Platinum and Silver Rules

3 Lessons

17

Good Enough is Better than Best

4 Lessons

18

First Principles Thinking

5 Lessons

19

Write, A Lot

10 Lessons

20

Pick Up What They Put Down

5 Lessons

21

Part III: Strategies

1 Lesson

22

Intro to Strategy

4 Lessons

23

Learning Gears

6 Lessons

24

Specialist vs. Generalist

7 Lessons

25

Betting on Technologies

5 Lessons

26

Profit Center vs Cost Center

6 Lessons

27

Engineering Career Ladders

5 Lessons

28

Intro to Tech Strategy

7 Lessons

29

Strategic Awareness

9 Lessons

30

Megatrends

5 Lessons

31

Part IV: Tactics

1 Lesson

32

Negotiating

5 Lessons

33

How to Learn in Private

5 Lessons

34

Design for Developers in a Hurry

7 Lessons

35

Lampshading

6 Lessons

36

Conference CFPs

9 Lessons

37

Mise en Place Writing

7 Lessons

38

Side Projects

5 Lessons

39

Developer’s Guide to Twitter

11 Lessons

40

Marketing Yourself (without Being a Celebrity)

14 Lessons

41

The Operating System of You

6 Lessons

42

Conclusion

1 Lesson

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