Becoming a Software Engineer

WIP

Agile

• Video from Spotify about "modern" agile philosophy (Spotify model): https://youtu.be/502ILHjX9EE
• Agile being an obsolete model
  • https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-agile-is-not-for-me-9c785245bf95

UML

https://github.com/TeamFlowerPower/kb/wiki/uml

Algorithms

Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms - Richard Buckland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRRUQFbePU&list=PLE621E25B3BF8B9D1

Version Control

git

Nice git introduction by Scott Chacon of GitHub: https://youtu.be/ZDR433b0HJY

Check our wiki pages:

• https://github.com/TeamFlowerPower/kb/wiki/gitBook
• https://github.com/TeamFlowerPower/kb/wiki/gitAtAMin
• Check also the other pages

Workflow

https://github.com/google/eng-practices -> Esp. interesting: Giving and receiving code reviews

Learning/Best practices

Through:

• Pair programming
• Receiving and or reading code reviews (via (PRs) or sites like https://codereview.stackexchange.com/)
• Reading (and googling) about best practices

Programming

Get to know commonly used style guides. A good start moving be here: https://github.com/google/styleguide

Configure linters to become aware about those standards an and enforce those.

Python

• Python visualised as roadmap
• Learning Python -> long, but good

Being a software developer (interesting also for non-developers)

• What developers hate and how to get rid of motivated ones

Other

Recommendations:

• Learn Regular Expressions - once you know them they'll be your best friend
• Follow StackExchange pages
• If you like puzzling sites like https://codesignal.com/ are fun; they also teach you to become a better problem solver

Job Search

• StackOverflow Jobs (no longer operating)
• LinkedIn Jobs
• Google Job Alerts