Street Coder

Computer science theory quickly collides with the harsh reality of professional software development. This wickedly smart and devilishly funny beginner's guide shows you how to get the job done by prioritizing tasks, making quick decisions, and knowing which rules to break.

In Street Coder you will learn:

• Data types, algorithms, and data structures for speedy software development
• Putting "bad" practices to good use
• Learn to love testing
• Embrace code breaks and become friends with failure
• Beginner-friendly insight on code optimization, asynchronous programming, parallelization, and refactoring

Street Coder: Rules to break and how to break them is a programmer's survival guide, full of tips, tricks, and hacks that will make you a more efficient programmer. It takes the best practices you learn in a computer science class and deconstructs them to show when they’re beneficial—and when they aren't!

This book's rebel mindset challenges status quo thinking and exposes the important skills you need on the job. You'll learn the crucial importance of algorithms and data structures, turn programming chores into programming pleasures, and shatter dogmatic principles keeping you from your full potential. Welcome to the streets!

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Fresh-faced CS grads, bootcampers, and other junior developers lack a vital quality: the “street smarts” of experience. To succeed in software, you need the skills and discipline to put theory into action. You also need to know when to go rogue and break the unbreakable rules. Th is book is your survival guide.

About the book

Street Coder teaches you how to handle the realities of day-to-day coding as a software developer. Self-taught guru Sedat Kapanoglu shares down-and-dirty advice that’s rooted in his personal hands-on experience, not abstract theory or ivory-tower ideology. You’ll learn how to adapt what you’ve learned from books and classes to the challenges you’ll face on the job. As you go, you’ll get tips on everything from technical implementations to handling a paranoid manager.

About the Author

Sedat Kapanoglu is a self-taught software developer. He was born in Turkey to parents from former Yugoslavia. He wrote his first program on an 8-bit Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ when he was nine. After learning BASIC, Assembly, and Pascal, he dropped his plans to study at college to work on software development professionally. During his career that spans decades, he's worked on a broad range of software projects including GUI frameworks, medical applications, BBS doors, FidoNet tools, online games, hardware drivers, e-commerce, networking, and finance. He founded Eksi Sozluk in 1999, the most popular Turkish social platform in the world to date. He worked at Microsoft as a software engineer in Windows team for five years. He quit Microsoft to keep working on his platform. Today, he spends his time in San Francisco Bay Area, being upset at mobile apps taking over the web solely because they've been made easier to add to home screen.