Getting A Coding Job Fd (For Dummies)

Great book for showing users the ins and outs of the different developers careers, and how to secure a job in those careers. Great insights, very helpful. Highly recommend!!

Halfway through, has opened my eyes to some possible career fields.

This book is a great introduction to software development and related fields.

The book seems to be geared toward people who heard that coding is a lucrative field, and want a piece for themselves, but have no slightest idea of what it actually is. The book starts with description what coding is about, how we meet it in real world, where to start. It even gets with some examples of coding and what and how to learn to be able to find a job - going to college or or self-teaching and about other opportunities to learn. There is a lot to learn from the book. It is written in easy to understand language, as usual with the dummies books.

This is a very down to earth book that speaks directly and plainly to the reader which winds up empowering the reader and making them feel they can jump right in teaching themselves. One of my teens is interested in coding but had some questions such as is college really necessary, how important is it that you attend certain colleges and also can any of this be learned on one's own at home?This book dispels myths, saying you can learn enough by yourself in one week to begin coding and also gives a one month plan and a 3-6 month plan. Which can be learned in what timeframe and in which order are explained on page 241. The fact that you DO NOT have to be good in math to invent and write code for an app is explained on page 239-240 and that you do not have to get an engineering degree is covered on pg 240. The fact that you had very different past career experience is portrayed as a positive on page 247.Although my reason for wanting to read the book was for the young beginner, this book covers the full spectrum from wanting to change careers, to expand one's knowledge base, moving from one career to another when older. Although college is not stated as mandatory they even encourage women and minorities to get that degree as scholarships for women and minorities for STEM majors are common hand outs.Take a look at the table of contents or read the back cover to see all that is covered in this book. It's easy to read and you can skip around to hit the parts you need to know fastest or that most interest you. I hate the series name "Dummies" as to me it sounds insulting, but this book is a really good one that gets to the nuts and bolts and is really helpful. Rated 5 stars = I Love It.

This book is not what I thought it was going to be. What I thought it was going to be is hints-and-tips about resume writing and finding out about job openings and applying for them. Instead it does this and more.GETTING A CODING JOB is really a great book for the Absolute Novice, or Newbie who-knows-a-little-bit about the job market. The book covers background information, types of programming and even what you will find yourself doing on a typical work day. (This latter is something I think people really ought to consider.)GETTING A CODING JOB starts with a 'filler' chapter about the dynamic growth of coding jobs in the last 50 years. I'd write this one off and tell you not to read it except that it has a simple fantastic block of text by a Tech Recruiter, and it defines for novices (like my teen nephew) what freelancing and contract work is.After that there's a good chapter about how you can take the job you have now and bring programming into it. From there the book discusses what you'll actually be doing if you are programming and the different routes you can take to get qualified. There are lots of hints and tips in the chapters that follow. One of the ideas that really 'struck me' was that if you had actually written an app that your interviews would go a lot better.SUMMARYGETTING A CODING JOB is a great book for those thinking about a career as a programmer, or for those who'd like to change careers. The book begins at the ground level and takes you through the educational process on up through finding a job. This book would be suitable for high schoolers, college students, or those who have self trained or would like to learn by whatever means. Those with more experience are going to be able to skip chapters, but there is valuable enough information inside that it makes sense to buy this book or borrow it from the library.

I'll admit I do not like the series title nor the other(s) that are similar. However, once you get past the cover, this book conveys solid information. It covers what coding jobs are in general, the typical salary bands, the specific technologies/types involved, and how to go about getting the job. While there isn't much here you can't find on the Internet, the point is that all of this is in one place. And you will save yourself hours of valuable time by going through this book page by page. It is one technical book that I'd recommended reading straight through, and one that won't be outdated next year like so many IT books are. Recommended.

This is a straightforward really rather well-designed book on entrance into the world of coding that offers a surprising amount of detail and is particularly well-sequenced. This can function as either a read-from-beginning-to-end book or as more of a reference where you dive in to get specific information about a specific topic. It tell you where the jobs are, what to expect from the application and interview process and, my favorite section -- the daily life of a coder. I thought the section on building your online network was surface-y and inadequate.

I have been employed as a coder continually for 25 years and never worked as anything else. For a few of those years I have has some involvement in recruitment and I have also seen others enter the profession from outside as well as worked with hundreds of other coders. I have also discussed the contents of this book with several other long-term coders to get their views on it.It’s quite a thin book and it tries to cover a lot of ground. It’s quite weak on the technical side and there are some huge omissions in the areas it advises potential coders to concentrate on. The book is also American so the prospective salaries and some of the other details are not relevant or accurate in the UK.Part 1 of the book mainly covers what a job as a coder entails and the different types of coding opportunities in the workplace. The last bit of part 1 and the whole of part 2 looks at different technologies coders might use. It covers web pages, mobile apps, server-side code and databases. There is no mention whatsoever of Microsoft technologies such as dot net and Sql server, which seems odd as they are heavily used by many companies. Another huge omission is the cloud – no mention again of cloud computing using technologies like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which are perfect for small start-up companies due to their relatively low costs and scalability.For some reason, the authors have actually included some very simple “code” for HTML, CSS and JavaScript but there is almost no code in any other languages. Whether that’s because that’s all they know or there wasn’t room or they just gave up on the idea isn’t clear. The only “serious” languages considered are Ruby and Python which have a few fragments of code. It’s just too little actual code, the book would probably be better without it and just concentrate on describing the main technology areas from a very high-level point of view rather than dipping into a few token areas.The rest of the book is mainly about getting the training (part 3) and then finding a job (part 4). This seems sensible enough advice, although it very much depends on the age of the potential coder what route to go down. Again a lot of the advice is specific to the US Market so may not be entirely helpful for a British reader as our college system and companies offering “boot camps” are not the same.I think the book may be helpful in a very general sense to the British reader but much of the specific advice on technologies, education and careers should be checked elsewhere rather than relying on this book.

As Dummies books go, this is fairly thin (just over 250 pages) and tries to cover as much ground as possible. It works as a good introduction and overview to professional coding--to the skills you'll need and how to promote them successfully--and should be particularly helpful to school or college leavers.As others have noted, it is a standard US-edition Dummies book but don't let that alone put you off. Whilst there are certainly sections of advice--such as college programs and the US tax system--that will be of no use to us Brits, the book is largely generic and much of what is mentioned in American context can easily be translated to the British equivalent, without much thought.It is fairly well structured and should whet your appetite for getting started. Part one covers the various jobs available and also gives you an idea what you'd be doing on a day-to-day basis as a professional coder. Part two covers the most common technologies and languages used (as well as teaching some fundamental/universal principles of coding). Part three (possibly the least useful section, for Brit eyes, though still interesting and well worth skimming through) covers education: how much you will need, how to get the best for the money you have. And finally, part four advises you how to promote your skills in order to land your dream job (such as networking and building an attractive portfolio site).It is, as I say, fairly lightweight and doesn't cover any of these areas in sufficient detail for it to be considered anything other than an introductory text. It is nice, and useful, though, to have such a broad overview of the business to hand in a concise and easily digestible form. As a motivational tool, it is very good and I'd recommend it to anybody thinking of coding professionally for a living.

This is one of the books in the “Dummies” series; this one looking at how to get a Coding job. At the college I work for, we have computer courses and coding is a career than many of our students are keen to go into. I will be honest and say that I knew absolutely nothing about this but was keen to learn more about this. Having read this book, I do feel it is too US biased to be much use to students in the UK, but there is a lot of useful basic information.Part 1 looks at getting a job in coding – what it is, possible career paths, working as a coder and understanding key coding concepts. This was probably the most useful section for anybody interested in working in the area, as it will explain what jobs there are and what they entail. Part 2 looks at the technologies used – creating websites, programming, creating movile apps and analysing data. Part 3 looks at getting an education in coding; but this centres on the US and much will not apply to British students. However, Part 4; launching a career path, is pretty much applicable wherever you are – building a portfolio site, networking and interviewing. Likewise, Part 5 deals with interviews and job searches as well as coding myths.Overall, not one of the best in the Dummies series, but an interesting read. Whether I would have felt I had learned much had I not been a complete beginner I am not sure though.

It has a few problems and typos (it recommends a high end PC with a 500Mb hard drive) and some of the advice is specific to the USA, but the gist is good. It provides ideas on what kind of jobs can us coding (including design and HR work,) how to find and get a job using your programming abilities, the different ways to learn to become a programmer and what to do when you know enough to begin writing code. There are links to online resources for programming and places to look for work, though again there is some bias towards the USA.If you’re an absolute beginner, without piles of other books it is a good starting point. Whilst it does not teach you how to programme, it does give some good examples of code and how it works, so someone entirely unfamiliar with programming can begin to understand just what the book is talking about. It su hints at questions you may want to research further through other sources. If you’re the kind of reader that starts in one place and uses it to branch out, this is a good book.Some of the job finding advice is really very similar to the more generic career finding books, so if you already know how to code and have a pile of books on how to get a job, then it probably isn’t for you. If everything revolving around America annoys you, then this probably isn’t for you either.The USA bias aside there are a few other problems. The typos do not bode well for a guide to getting a job in something as precise as coding, but more than that it already feels a little dated. In a world that moves as fast as coding, I’m not sure how long the advice will remain current. If you’re buying much beyond 2016, I think you may need some updated advice to go along with it.

After reading the other reviews of this book I didn't hold out too much hope. I have to agree that it is written for a US audience so as a British reader you have to do plenty of translation and imagining in order to understand what it means in your personal quest to get a coding job. People have criticized it for focusing only on code examples for HTML/CSS/JavaScript, but actually it talks about other aspects of coding such as the choice between Ruby On Rails and Python, and it has a section to help you understand key coding concepts, touching on SQL. This isn't a book to learn coding from, but given the title I doubt whether that's what you would expect.I got this book for my son who has just started computer science at university, he has a clear idea of where he'd like to get to, but has yet to encounter the rocky road of actually doing it. I suspect he may have to deal with some tough decisions about what jobs are available to him as opposed to those he would really like. How can he decide whether his current path is going to lead him to the right place?All I'm hoping this book will do is to broaden my son's horizons and gain a better understanding of the overall context he finds himself in as he moves gradually into the workplace. This may sound like being damned by faint praise, but I think this book will be useful background reading.