Dev guide - A collection for developers to be inspired

Throughout my career I’ve met many developers in the beginning of their journey in become a programmer. In general what I observed was common doubts and questions that could be generalized to a broader audience. In this section I’m going to bring all the content that a beginner should start to learn and also further references to take it to the a next level.

Thi is a structured view of this blog, what I think and what I did to reach each section and understand each concept. This is not meant to be followed as it is, instead think of it as a guide that you can check against what you know and what might be next step.

This is what worked for me and might work for you.

Even though the idea is for beginners, experiences developers might find the resources here useful for a review or to share that among other developers. You are also welcome to share what your opinion is, or to share some reference that I haven’t used here.

You might also be interested in the dedicated section for testing on this blog, it goes further in details on what is listed here.

The journey

1. Motivation
   • My technical reading path - Software engineering journey
   • The philosophy
     • The craftsmanship movement
2. Mental mode for programming
   • Programing is not what looks like
3. The university fallacy
4. Bootcamps?
5. The programming industry
   • Before joining the party
   • Software engineering, in the developer’s hand?
   • Looking for a job
     • Algorithms, Algorithms, Algorithms …. Oh Wait!
     • The experience fallacy
   • Should I have a github profile?
   • Looking for help
     • I am blocked, what should I do?
     • The hero
   • To specialize or to generalize?
     • Are we front-end/back-end developers?
   • Socialize
     • Developer conferences
     • Speak, share what you know
       • Conferences
   • Pick a cloud provider
     • AWS
       • CPP exam study guide
       • Module 1 and 2 - EC2
       • Module 3 - Infrastructure and reliability
       • Module 4 - Networking
       • Module 5 - Storage and databases
       • Module 6 - Security
       • Module 7 - Monitoring and Analytics
       • Module 8 - Pricing and support
       • Module 9 - Migration and innovation
       • Module 10 - The cloud journey
     • Azure (WIP)
       • AZ 204 Introduction
       • AZ-204 Compute solutions
       • AZ-204 Storage solutions
       • AZ-204 Implementing security
       • AZ-204 Troubleshoot and monitoring
       • AZ-204 Connect and consume services
   • Pick a platform
     • The web
       • CORS
6. Choosing the correct programming language
   • What is correct?
   • For me, it was PHP and the LAMP stack
     • PHP basics, are you sure? So tell me how to use octal system!
     • Converting Hexadecimal(16) to Decimal(10)
     • Bitwise operators - The Journey
   • And then, expand
     • ReactJs
       • ReactJs patterns - A study based on google search
     • VueJs
       • Adventures on vue.js and data visualization - episode 1
       • Adventures on vue.js and data visualization - episode 2
   • Object Oriented Programming
     • Introduction to OOP with PHP (Classes, Encapsulation, Inheritance)
   • Functional Programming
   • Does it matter? Don’t limit yourself.
7. The web
   • Service workers
   • Real time
     • WebSocket - HTML5
     • The definitive guide to HTML5 WebSocket
   • REST
     • Setting up an API skeleton what should I take into consideration? - Routing, Persistence and Caching
     • Thoughts on REST API’s
8. The programmer toolkit
   • Terminal
   • Git
   • IDE’s or text editors
     • 30 days of VIM
     • 30 days of VIM - One week after
     • 30 days of VIM - One month after
   • Database Administration tools
   • Productivity
     • Pomodoro is it worth it?
     • Keep an agenda
   • Docker
   • Infrastructure as code
     • Terraform HashiCorp certification - infrastructure as code, the udemy course companion
   • Design patterns
     • Head first - Design Patterns
     • PHP Design Patterns
   • SOLID
   • Readable code
     • The Art of Readable Code
     • Clean code and the art of readable code a brief summary
   • Document as code
9. Practices
   • Agile?
     • The waterfall
     • Scrum
     • Kaban
     • eXtreme programming
     • Metrics
   • Test Driven Development
     • Where to start - TDD by example
     • TDD and the industry
     • Bonus, what I think about TDD
       • ARE YOU NOT USING TDD?! - PART 1
       • ARE YOU NOT USING TDD?! – PART 2 (Legacy code)
       • Is TDD dead ?
       • TDD revamped, five years and many more to come
   • Feedback
   • Continuous integration/ Continuous delivery
     • Continuous Delivery
     • Accelerate - Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations - Book review and my personal notes and insights
10. Software architecture
    • What is even architecture?
    • Architectural styles
      • Software architecture patterns - Layered, Event-driven, Microkernel, Microservices, Space-based and CQRS
      • Clean architecture
      • Hexagonal architecture
      • Production-Ready microservices - Book review and my personal notes
    • Do I need to architect?
    • ADR’s (Architectural Decision Records)
    • Representing architecture
      • The C4 model
11. Empirical software engineering
    • Taking decisions based in data
12. Learning
    • Learning how to learn
    • The programmer’s brain - memory and code
    • Katas - why, when and how
    • Side projects
13. Where to go from here
    • This is just he beginning
    • Do not advocate, teach
    • Teaching others