Developer Basics - 101

Developer Basics

May 07, 2018 uploaded by Admios Facilitator

Developer Basics

Developer Basics - Developer Basics - 101

Developer Basics Course

Professional Developer Intro

Becoming a professional developer means more than just coding well. You must be able think logically, organize your work and clearly communicate with your teammates. The best resource we’ve found in this area is Bob Martin’s book “The Clean Coder”. Your goal with this section is to read the beginning chapters, take them to heart and apply them to everything you do during your tenure at Admios.

Read The Clean Coder Chapters 1,2, & 3

Understanding Programming Languages Intro

Programming languages are plentiful these day. Each language has proponents and critics. The goal of this section is to get you to begin to think critically about languages and how they can be classified. Please review the following list and research any of the categorizations that you are not familiar with.

  • Object oriented versus functional (you should understand what a prototype language is as well)
  • Declarative versus imperative
  • Compiled versus interpreted
  • Strong versus Weak Typing (you should understand duck typing as well)

Programming Language Reading

Programming Language Exercises

  • Pick one language from 7 Languages in 7 Weeks that you haven’t used before and go through the tutorials. Make sure to apply everything that you learned in the sections on clean code and testing!
  • Check in all your code and be prepared to discuss the work you did in the morning scrum.

Clean Code Intro

Understanding the syntax of a programming language doesn’t mean that you know enough to produce professional code. In this section we’ll introduce some basic rules that should largely apply to all languages that will help you developer cleaner code.

Read Clean Code chapters 1,2,3,4,6,8, & 10

Testing Intro

Testing is an integral part of development. The goal of this section is to get you acquainted with the basic methodology behind the most common testing practices so that when you encounter them during your technical training you have a solid conceptual base on which to build.

  • Read Clean Code Chapter 9
  • Read The Clean Coder Chapters 5,7, & 8
  • Read this introduction to TDD
  • Read this introduction to BDD

Debugging Reading

Source Control Intro

Contributing to any serious software development project means using some sort of source control system. At Admios, our projects use commonly GIT. The goal of this section is for you to become familiar with the philosophy underlying the GIT system, and become proficient with it.

Complexity Intro

Part of writing great code is using efficient algorithms. Algorithm efficiency is measure using Big O notation. Complete the tutorial so you can better measure and improve the algorithms you develop.

Complexity Exercises

Read this page and complete all of the questions.

Data Basics Intro

Most of the projects at Admios have some data storage component. Frequently, this data is stored in a database and retrieved with SQL. It’s important that our developers have a working understanding of SQL and some common tasks.

SQL Reading

  • If you have never used SQL before please complete our database training
  • Everyone should read chapters 3,4,7 and 8 of the SQL Cookbook (if you need access, please request it)

Data Reading

  • Read the introduction to data modeling here.
  • Read the introduction to 7 Databases in 7 weeks.
  • Complete the PostGres chapter in 7 Database in 7 Weeks.
  • Read overview of NoSQL databases here.
  • Complete the HBase or Redis chapter in 7 Databases in 7 Weeks.

Final Reading

  • The remaining chapters in The Clean Coder 6,9,10,11,12,13,14
  • The remaining chapters in Clean Code 11,12,13,14
  • Read hacker news on a daily basis.
  • Read the subreddit on programming on a daily basis.