Video description
In Video Editions the narrator reads the book while the content, figures, code listings, diagrams, and text appear on the screen. Like an audiobook that you can also watch as a video.
I've just finished the digital copy of this content-packed 274 pages of insightful technical guide and it definitely goes onto my list of useful sources for software developers, CS students, and even technical leads.
Asil Çetin-Aufricht, Team Lead, Software Development, KPMG Austria
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!
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. This 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 Kapanoğlu 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 audience
For new programmers. Examples in C#.
about the author
Sedat Kapanoglu is a self-taught programmer with more than 25 years of experience, including a stint at Microsoft.
A fantastic read, particularly for developers just beginning their first proper job in the industry, but also a worthwhile investment for more experienced developers.Jonny Nisbet
A must-read for every developer level!
Vincent Delcoigne, Wavenet
In the real world you have some tough decisions to make and the formal theory that you learned in your CS study or courses won't be enough—thus I really appreciate the message that this book delivers: know what matters in the streets, be questioning and results-driven, and embrace complexity and ambiguity.
Asil Çetin-Aufricht, Team Lead, Software Development, KPMG Austria
Table of contents
- Chapter 1. To the streets
- Chapter 1. Great street coders
- Chapter 1. The problems of modern software development
- Chapter 1. The black boxes of technology
- Chapter 1. Themes
- Chapter 2. Practical theory
- Chapter 2. Inside data structures
- Chapter 2. Array
- Chapter 2. Dictionary
- Chapter 2. What’s the hype on types?
- Chapter 2. Proof of validity
- Chapter 2. Don’t framework hard, framework smart
- Chapter 2. To be nullable or non-nullable Part 1
- Chapter 2. To be nullable or non-nullable Part 2
- Chapter 2. Better performance for free
- Chapter 3. Useful anti-patterns
- Chapter 3. Isolating common functionality
- Chapter 3. Write it from scratch
- Chapter 3. Fix it, even if it ain’t broke
- Chapter 3. Do repeat yourself
- Chapter 3. Invent it here
- Chapter 3. Don’t use inheritance
- Chapter 3. Don’t use classes
- Chapter 3. Write bad code
- Chapter 3. Don’t write code comments
- Chapter 4. Tasty testing
- Chapter 4. How to stop worrying and love the tests
- Chapter 4. Don’t use TDD or other acronyms
- Chapter 4. Deciding what to test
- Chapter 4. Let the compiler test your code
- Chapter 4. Eliminate valid value checks
- Chapter 5. Rewarding refactoring
- Chapter 5. Identify the components
- Chapter 5. Refactor to make refactoring easier
- Chapter 5. Reliable refactoring
- Chapter 6. Security by scrutiny
- Chapter 6. Threat modeling
- Chapter 6. Write secure web apps
- Chapter 6. Don’t implement your own security
- Chapter 6. SQL injection attacks
- Chapter 6. Cross-site scripting
- Chapter 6. Draw the first flood
- Chapter 6. Storing secrets
- Chapter 6. Keeping secrets in source code
- Chapter 7. Opinionated optimization
- Chapter 7. Anatomy of sluggishness
- Chapter 7. Nested loops
- Chapter 7. Breaking the bottle at the neck
- Chapter 7. Be predictable
- Chapter 7. 1s and 0s of I/O
- Chapter 7. Modern async/await
- Chapter 8. Palatable scalability
- Chapter 8. Don’t use locks
- Chapter 8. Embrace inconsistency
- Chapter 8. Don’t cache database connections
- Chapter 8. Don’t use threads
- Chapter 8. Respect the monolith
- Chapter 9. Living with bugs
- Chapter 9. The error terror
- Chapter 9. Don’t catch exceptions
- Chapter 9. Resiliency without transactions
- Chapter 9. Don’t debug
Product information
- Title: Street Coder, Video Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2022
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: None
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