Skill Up, Jordan Hudgens
Skill Up, Jordan Hudgens
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Skill Up
A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

Author: Jordan Hudgens

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/24/2019


Synopsis

This is an all-purpose toolkit for your programming career. It has been built by Jordan Hudgens over a lifetime of coding and teaching coding. It helps you identify the key questions and stumbling blocks that programmers encounter, and gives you the answers to them! It is a comprehensive guide containing more than fifty insights that you can use to improve your work, and to give advice in your career.

The book is split up into three topic areas: Coder Skills, Freelancer Skills, and Career Skills, each containing a wealth of practical advice. Coder Skills contains advice for people starting out, or those who are already working in a programming role but want to improve their skills. It includes such subjects as how to study and understand complex topics, and getting past skill plateaus when learning new languages. Freelancer Skills contains advice for developers working as freelancers or with freelancers. It includes such subjects as knowing when to fire a client, and tips for taking over legacy applications. Career Skills contains advice for building a successful career as a developer. It includes such subjects as how to improve your programming techniques, and interview guides and developer salary negotiation strategies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kay's

This book has many little and easy to digest chapters. It is advice on working either a career or freelancing that could really is broad enough to cover all careers, not just programming. It is split into 3 parts: Part 1: Coder Skills This section is not so much about computer programming. It is most......more

Goodreads review by Chris

This book was definitely useful for me. The author, Jordan Hudgens focuses on the mechanics of study and mastery, as it pertains to developers, but I found these study/skill-building habits were good for more anything broadly technical. The most insightful thing the author hammers home in the text i......more

Goodreads review by Carlos

It has several tips that can help you, but after a while it can sound repetitive. This book is more a collection of articles, which explains in part why some knowledge may overlap when answering different questions. In all, is a good collection of advice in article format, put together in a book. There......more

It has some good advice for developer. How would he get the initial confusion of what path to choose and what to do to keep itself on the track. What to do in the moment of despair, A 10000 hour rule is empahized to achieve the mastery. Some easy digestable topics for the developer when it first disco......more

Goodreads review by Idir

A gem would reccomend to anyone that's starting out / interested in software developement as it would provide you with great insights .......more