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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

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

Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

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By: Jordan Hudgens

Overview of this book

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 50 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.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
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Chapter 56. A Practical Guide to Approaching Project Development

One of my favorite parts of being a teacher is interacting with students. And this chapter will focus on answering a viewer's question regarding strategies to approaching project development.

Student question

The following is a letter I received from Christian, a developer from Germany:

Starting web development a year ago, I'm currently building my first own commercial product (a classified ad site) using Rails. I really would like to hear your advice on how you approach building features on apps, as I have the following problems:

I can't really plan a feature from start to end because I always think I'm missing something important

Procrastination and being afraid to make errors that will be costly to correct in the future

How do you approach building features when you don't know the scope exactly?

What`s your process, how do you get unstuck?

Best regards,

Christian

Strategies to approaching project...

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