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This is an all-purpose toolkit for your programming career. It has been built by Jordan Hudgens over a lifetime of coding and teaching coding. It helps you identify the key questions and stumbling blocks that programmers encounter, and gives you the answers to them! It is a comprehensive guide containing more than 50 insights that you can use to improve your work, and to give advice in your career. The book is split up into three topic areas: Coder Skills, Freelancer Skills, and Career Skills, each containing a wealth of practical advice.

Harness the potent power of Kanban and Scrum with this bundle and take your project-management skills to the next level.

Cloud Native Patterns is your guide to developing strong applications that thrive in the dynamic, distributed, virtual world of the cloud. This audiobook presents a mental model for cloud-native applications, along with the patterns, practices, and tooling that set them apart. Cloud platforms promise the holy grail: Near-zero downtime, infinite scalability, short feedback cycles, fault-tolerance, and cost control. But how do you get there? Learn these fundamental patterns and practices, and you’ll be ready to thrive in the dynamic, distributed, virtual world of the cloud.

This philosophy-of-programming guide presents a unique and entertaining take on how to think about programming. A collection of twenty-one pragmatic rules, each presented in a stand-alone chapter, captures the essential wisdom that every freshly minted programmer needs to know and provides thought-provoking insights for more seasoned programmers. Author Chris Zimmerman, cofounder of the video game studio Sucker Punch Productions, teaches basic truths of programming by wrapping them in memorable aphorisms and driving them home with examples drawn from real code.

JavaScript Application Design: A Build First Approach introduces JavaScript developers to techniques that will improve the quality of their software as well as their web development workflow. You'll begin by learning how to establish build processes that are appropriate for JavaScript-driven development. Then, you'll walk through best practices for productive day-to-day development, like running tasks when your code changes, deploying applications with a single command, and monitoring the state of your application once it's in production.

Reactive Design Patterns is a clearly written guide for building message-driven distributed systems that are resilient, responsive, and elastic. In this book you'll find patterns for messaging, flow control, resource management, and concurrency, along with practical issues like test-friendly designs. All patterns include concrete examples using Scala and Akka.

"SECURING THE CI/CD PIPELINE: Best Practices for DevSecOps" is a comprehensive guide that integrates security into Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Essential for anyone in modern software development, it emphasizes balancing speed and security.

Practical techniques for writing code that is robust, reliable, and easy for team members to understand and adapt. In Good Code, Bad Code you’ll learn how to: Think about code like an effective software engineer, write functions that read like well-structured sentences, ensure code is reliable and bug free, effectively unit test code, identify code that can cause problems and improve it, write code that is reusable and adaptable to new requirements, improve your medium and long-term productivity, and save yourself and your team time.

Dive into the essence of Agile methodologies with "Agile Manifesto: Unpacking the Agile Manifesto for Modern Development." This comprehensive guide explores each of the core values and principles declared in the Agile Manifesto, providing a deep and actionable understanding tailored for today's dynamic development environments.

A former US Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish: thousands of high-tech software products used largely by the military, and for mere pennies on the dollar. Want to purchase satellite tracking software? No problem. Aerospace and aviation simulations? No problem. Communications systems designs? No problem.

Great software can change the world. So, why not start with an idea of what your end user wants and needs? The success of any software is underpinned by the users’ need for it. Will it serve its purpose efficiently? Will it make the end user’s life easier? Will it give them their money’s worth? In User Experience by UX designer Steven Branson, you’ll find out everything you need to know. Expanding your UX approach, honing your coding abilities, and acing your computer programming interviews are within reach!

Anti-Horoscope: Human "Software" is a series of 12 books. Do you know that people born on July 6 leap years or July 7 common years are not only "windsurfers", who are always on the crest of a fashionable and stylish wave, but also that within the circle of loved ones they are "walking disasters"? This audiobook is for those people who are fed up with "horoscopism", who are tired of listening to nonsense about themselves and other people from psychologists or their "all-knowing" relatives, friends, and acquaintances.

The Secret Science of Games is an accessible and entertaining guide to the hidden role of science in making games more fun. User experience (UX) research is a vital part of the story of how video games have become a cultural juggernaut, but game developers generally don’t speak publicly about how data shapes game design and game development.

Attention aspiring coders and creative minds! Join thousands of Python users changing their future. Discover easy Python learning secrets, even if you're just starting out. Have you ever dreamt of creating your own video game or automating tedious tasks with a few lines of code? Or perhaps you've been intrigued by the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence but felt it was out of reach?

Historically, competition has powered progress under capitalism. Companies with productive new products rise to the top, but sooner or later, competitors come along with better innovations and disrupt the threat of monopoly. Dominant firms like Walmart, Amazon, and Google argue that this process of “creative destruction” prevents them from becoming too powerful or entrenched. But the threat of competition has sharply decreased over the past twenty years, and today’s corporate giants have come to power by using proprietary information technologies to create a tilted playing field.

Quantum computing isn’t science fiction anymore—it’s becoming a real competitive edge. As breakthroughs accelerate, companies need developers who can bridge today’s systems with tomorrow’s quantum-powered capabilities. That’s where Quantum-Ready Development comes in. This practical and forward-looking guide equips modern software engineers, architects, and tech leaders with the tools, mindset, and frameworks to prepare for quantum integration without waiting for the future to arrive.

There are two software worlds. There is the beautiful functional world of smart “tech” appliances that do Star Trek things. Then there is the world of Healthcare.gov and complex software in financial services, health care, and government, such as maintaining and securing the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The profession of Agile Coaching is, in a word, confusing. Bob Galen has written Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching to help alleviate the confusion. The book centers on the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as the competency and skill maturity model to baseline your agile coaching skills against. Its core goal is to “raise the bar” as to what true excellence looks like and to help you establish a personal development and growth plan. Consider this book that maps to coaching badassery, personal growth, and client service.

This book explores the principles, practices, and tools of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) to help organizations build a seamless software delivery pipeline. It covers everything from the fundamental concepts and benefits of CI/CD to the practical implementation and best practices. The book starts by introducing CI/CD and its importance in modern software development. It explains how CI/CD addresses challenges such as manual processes, deployment delays, and quality issues.

Unlock the secrets to driving business success with 'UX Lifecycle,' the definitive guide for business leaders seeking to revolutionize their software's impact. Narrated by the engaging Andrew Cole, this audiobook presents a comprehensive methodology framework designed by Clive Howard & Jeremy Baines to elevate user experiences and deliver tangible business outcomes.