Hey, what’s up, John Sonmez from simpleprogrammer.com.
I thought I would do a video talking about something that I’m working on that I’m
super excited about that I realized, “Hey, I should be letting you know, those of you
that watch these YouTube videos about because it probably would be interesting to you.”
Sometimes I forget that not everyone who watches the YouTube videos follows the blog and vice
versa and whatnot.
What I’m talking about here is I am putting together what I’m calling tentatively, and
maybe this will be the final name, because you know me, ship at the first draft is a
book called The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide, so The Complete Software Developer’s
Career Guide.
If you just want to skip through this, if you don’t want to hear me talk about it,
just go right here.
You can click and sign up right away and you’ll get it for free.
Get the chapters dripped out to you via email for free.
I’m basically releasing each chapter on the blog so go click that.
If you want to hear about it, stay tuned.
Anyway, what am I putting together?
What is this whole thing?
I’ve written a pretty well best selling book called Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s
Life Manual.
There’s both an audio version word version, it’s been translated in multiple languages.
This has been popular and so I decided its time to write another book.
But this time I wanted to write still not a technical book but a book that is more focused
on career.
When I wrote Soft Skills a lot of you said, “I like a lot of the other stuff that’s
in the book but I was really super interested in the career stuff.
I wish there was more of that.”
I said, “Well, let me write a book that is totally the career stuff that will take
you through.”
Also, not only that, but so many people have said, “Hey, I don’t know how to get started
as a software developer.
I don’t know how to get my foot in the door and get started.
I don’t know how to get a job, my first job and how to even go about learning software
development?
What path do I take?
Where do I go?
I’d really like to do this kind of stuff.”
I wanted to address that.
There’s also this whole, like huge amount of information that you need to know as a
software developer so I want to give you all those topics.
Then there’s this second half, second half career is you’ve already got a job, you’re
already a successful software developer, maybe you filled in some knowledge gaps here from
the things you should know, but now, how do you work in the environment, how do you function
as a software developer to be effective at your job, to do the best job, to be productive,
to do all these things in your career and make the best of your career?
Then this final step of, okay, now you’re working with your coworkers, you’ve got
the job, I want to advance.
I want to get to the next level.
I want to get a raise.
I want to get a promotion.
I want to go beyond.
I want to advance my career.
I don’t necessarily want to become an entrepreneur but maybe I do, but I want to go out there.
How do I get speaking gigs?
How do I promote myself more and not just marketing myself but really advancing on the
career path?
What I’ve decided to do, that’s why I call it The Complete Software Developer’s
Career Guide is take the whole thing, I’m going to address this whole thing.
It’s going to be a big book.
It might be 2 volumes.
I’ve already got 30 chapters written, 29 chapters or so.
I’m probably about halfway done, maybe a little bit more.
Anyway, it’s going to be big.
What I want to do is release this.
I’m putting it on the blog, each chapter.
They’re sort of preview chapters.
It hasn’t gone through the full editing process.
I’m still looking for feedback as well, but I think this is going to be a really good
project.
I’m having fun writing this.
I think this is going to be really useful.
Anyway, check it out.
Go, click here.
Just sign up via email if you haven’t already and you’ll get the chapters.
All the chapters I’ve released so far you’ll get them one a week and you can start reading
through those chapters.
If you are a beginner, if you’re just starting out, if you’re trying to go into software
development you’re going to find those early chapters, the early sections of the book to
be extremely useful.
I answered tons of questions and dissect this whole should you go to a coding boot camp,
should you go to an interview, should you be self taught, should you go to college and
all this stuff and how to get a job and things like that.
If you’re already experienced you might find a lot of this stuff useful as well.
The later section of the book is going to be more appealing to you, but I would encourage
you to sign up anyway just so you get the updates.
At some point when the book goes for sale you have the option to buy the whole book
so you won’t have to wait every single week.
I know some of you don’t want to do that and of course, you can check out the book
on the blog.
Definitely, I’ll put the link here again.
Click here and sign up.
Do it now if you’re even remotely interested in this book because I’m giving you the
chance to get it for free now, essentially get the content for free.
Again, it’s not the final format, there will be a nice—I’m probably going to make
a print book video, an audible book, an audio version of it as well, but here’s your chance
to get an early look at it, get a lot of the content and possibly give some feedback if
you want.
Again, sign up, go check it out.
You’ve got nothing to lose there.
Let me know if you’re interested in this.
Give me some thumbs here if this sounds like a cool idea, you would like this.
If you don’t like it, put a thumbs down, that’s fine.
If you do like this and you think this is a cool idea, put a thumbs up, leave a comment
below, definitely, definitely sign up.
I’ll put that link up one more time because I think it’s so critical and I really do
want to get your feedback and I want you to get a chance to see the book here, especially
to be able to read it for free if you want.
Anyway, that’s it.
Just thought I would share that with you.
It’s my latest project.
I’m working on it about an hour everyday and making steady progress.
Like I said, I’m about halfway through.
Anyway, I’ll talk to you next time, take care.