{"id":3436,"date":"2017-07-19T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2017-07-19T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:45:36","slug":"complete-software-developers-career-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/complete-software-developers-career-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Complete Software Developer&#8217;s Career Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Sonmez (<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/\">Simple Programmer<\/a>), an awesome guy that I&#8217;m following for some time now just published a new book called <strong>The Complete Software Developer&#8217;s Career Guide<\/strong> and you can get it <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2uzvt3D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Currently the Kindle edition is on sale for less than a buck, so you may wanna <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2uzvt3D\">jump on this opportunity<\/a>!<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He is the author of one of the best books for Software developers called <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2tfsklg\">Soft Skills: The Software Developer\u2019s Life Manual<\/a>. I wrote a detailed review about that book two years ago, and you can check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/codeproject\/soft-skills-the-software-developers-life-manual-by-john-sonmez\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, for this new book, here&#8217;s what he will teach you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to systematically find and fill the gaps in your technical knowledge so you can face any new challenge with confidence<\/li>\n<li>Should you take contract work\u2014or hold out for a salaried position? Which will earn you more, what the tradeoffs are, and how your personality should sway your choice<\/li>\n<li>Should you learn JavaScript, C#, Python, C++? How to decide which programming language you should master first<\/li>\n<li>Ever notice how every job ever posted requires &#8220;3-5 years of experience,&#8221; which you don&#8217;t have? Simple solution for this frustrating chicken-and-egg problem that allows you to build + legitimate job experience while you learn to code<\/li>\n<li>Is earning a computer science degree a necessity\u2014or a total waste of time? How to get a college degree that accelerates your career without burying you under a mountain of debt<\/li>\n<li>Interviewer tells you, &#8220;Dress code is casual around here\u2014the whole development team wears flipflops.&#8221; What should you wear?<\/li>\n<li>Coding bootcamps\u2014some are great, others are complete scams. How to tell the difference, so you don&#8217;t find yourself cheated out of $10,000<\/li>\n<li>An inside look at the recruiting industry. What that &#8220;friendly&#8221; recruiter really wants from you, how they get paid, and how to avoid getting pigeonholed into a job you&#8217;ll hate<\/li>\n<li>How do you deal with a boss who&#8217;s a micromanager. Plus how helping your manager with his goals can make you the MVP of your team<\/li>\n<li>The must-know technical skills that every professional developer should have\u2014but no one teaches you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, this indeed is copied ? from his book landing page, but I&#8217;m actually 100% certain all of it is true. How? Did I already read the WHOLE book!? Well, here&#8217;s the crazy part &#8211; during the last year or so, he was giving the chapters of his book <strong>for free<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\">his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R32NXL16EKOSKX\/ref=pe_1098610_137716200_cm_rv_eml_rv0_rv\">review<\/a> I left on Amazon about this book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>If you don&#8217;t like this book, I&#8217;m gonna buy it from you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  I guarantee that if you follow John&#8217;s advice, if you <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/2015\/09\/28\/trust-the-process\/\">trust the process<\/a>, you&#8217;ll turn your software career around! Ever since I started following John via his blog and YouTube videos and applying what he teaches I need binoculars to look way back where I was. I can&#8217;t say a big enough thank you to John and this book is just a huge collection of everything you&#8217;ll ever need to know to succeed in this ever so slightly lucrative field of software development.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I personally believe that the concept of &#8216;trusting the process&#8217; is the best skill to cultivate and nurture because it will catapult your success forward in ways you can&#8217;t imagine. He has some more videos about this topic, and you can watch them on his YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bJsZfpwm_Fs&amp;list=PLjwWT1Xy3c4Vy90hwBvSI06r7plMHNcss\">here<\/a>. But, as many say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It&#8217;s simple, but not easy\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So keep that in mind and don&#8217;t back down when things get hard!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Complete Software Developer&#39;s Career Guide is an awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/book?src=hash\">#book<\/a> by the ever so slightly magnificent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsonmez\">@jsonmez<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LI1JoF7yyU\">https:\/\/t.co\/LI1JoF7yyU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nikola Bre\u017enjak (@HitmanHR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HitmanHR\/status\/887775334141177857\">July 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Sonmez (Simple Programmer), an awesome guy that I&#8217;m following for some time now just published a new book called The Complete Software Developer&#8217;s Career Guide and you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}