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What course/book positively affected your career as a developer the most?
Just like the title says which courses you find that have had the most impact in the span of your career as a developer?
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Refactoring by Martin Fowler and Kent Beck. I’ve read the original Java version, they did a JS revision soon ago.
It did open my eyes for the fact that our work is not a playground and we should all be taking the gradual evolution of code very seriously. All of the techniques inside taught me to spot opportunities to make code more readable, more maintainable, and more extensible.
It was a priceless learning experience.
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CSS Core Concepts
&CSS Page Layouts
both by James Williamson (lynda.com) -
Rediscovering JavaScript
by Venkat Subramaniam (pragprog) -
Phoenix inside out
series by Shankar Dhanasekaran (self published, book #1Mastering Phoenix
also available free online) -
Elixir & OTP
by Mike and Nicole Clark (pragmatic studio) -
Ruby on Rails 5 Essential Training
by Kevin Skoglund (lynda.com), (I don’t call myself a Rails developer) -
Pure React
by Dave Ceddia` (self published) - Some free PHP courses by Alex Garrett (CodeCourse) and Brad Traversy (Traversy Media) at Youtube, back in the day.
- Many more, will keep updating…
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