We all go through certain stages in our life path, as well as on the professional path. It is difficult to separate them, the influence of the second on the first in the fate of a worthy developer is colossal. At each of these stages, their goals and objectives, their advice and experience of those who have already passed this path earlier. Share the latest and inspire new achievements and this book is intended.
The book contains experience, funny stories, views and decisions: about how to choose a place of work, when and where to start, how to build relationships in life and on projects. What types are successful in the IT field and what traits are worth cultivating in yourself. How to become a team lead and lead, "win" interviews, fight burnout, rise from the ashes, move on and develop. Where to look for inspiration, how to get into a dream company and remain a cheerful developer.
A little about the author
Developer with over 10 years of experience. She was engaged in media services in the company that created Rutube. She worked on the portals Videomore.ru, STS, Wifire TV Lite, video.khl.ru. Made HTML5 player for KHL, OTP, STS and other large clients. Layout for IE6 and developed SmartTV applications. She led the front-end department, interviewed and interviewed abroad. Speaker of meetups and conferences with modest experience. Now a frontend developer at Yandex.
If interested - inside are excerpts from tips and stories, as well as download links.
Fragments of the book
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The book is about this and much more. A little more - about the experience of scientific articles, business trips, relationships with programmers and marriage with a teacher, divorce, children and the unhealthy interest of a local professor - all facets of the industry by personal example.
So far (and not permanently temporarily) it is available as "open source". Those. is free.
You can download it from the site way-in-it.ru . There you can also check in on the reading, take a paper copy and support the book.