Summary

Applying for a software engineering role requires some preparation, and you’ll want to make sure you have the right skills for the right position that you want. First, you’ll build on the skills you’d like to possess through self-guided or guided learning. Next, you’ll keep working on those skills until you have enough personal experience through projects to be ready to apply for professional roles. Before and during applying, you’ll want to prepare for the technical interview by studying programming problems and working on your projects. Finally, after some waiting, you’ll have an interview where the technical part of it requires you to make the most of the skills and studying you have and apply them to a problem.

While this book does not cover everything you need to learn to be a software developer, you have learned enough programming basics to apply your knowledge to different programming languages or different platforms. If you...