Software development is a very broad field, but every software engineer should be well-rounded in all aspects of the process: designing, programming, testing, and delivering. It takes years to build strong skills. Furthermore, careers in software are often turbulent due to ever-changing technologies, high turnover, and interesting personalities. Below are resources to help.
Major Posts
- Copying File Paths from Finder in macOS
- Purist vs. Pragmatist
- Should I Reject a Code Review for Typos?
- Static or Singleton
External Resources
- The Agile Manifesto
- Learn X in Y Minutes for learning programming languages quickly
- Stack Overflow
- Wikibooks for learning programming languages
Helpful Tools
- Atom for cross-platform lightweight text editing
- Eclipse IDE for Java and other languages
- JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA IDE for Java and other languages (my favorite)
- JetBrains PyCharm IDE for Python (my favorite)
- LaTeX for mathematical typesetting
- Notepad++ for lightweight Windows text editing
- Postman for API testing
- tohtml.com for quick source code highlighting
- Visual Studio Code for lightweight coding
