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Re: Developer Roadmaps

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Post by k_ »

la_fayette wrote: post #8
kamranahmed_se wrote: post #7

Hey guys, I am the person behind this website. Please know that it is still in progress. I wanted the initial version out so it is just the "roadmap" images for now. However, I am working on making these roadmaps more accessible for the beginners and easier to contribute to. In the list of things planned for the coming week is the textual version for each with different sections (job-ready, intermediate, advanced, ov…

Please add web components to frontend, instead of pick a framework...

Yes.

I'd still recommend learning about one of those frameworks to anyone aspiring to be a skilled front-end developer. Not because it is essential to master them, but because there are interesting concepts in there that could help with front-end applications development.

Re: Developer Roadmaps

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Post by itronitron »

kamranahmed_se wrote: post #7

Hey guys, I am the person behind this website. Please know that it is still in progress. I wanted the initial version out so it is just the "roadmap" images for now. However, I am working on making these roadmaps more accessible for the beginners and easier to contribute to. In the list of things planned for the coming week is the textual version for each with different sections (job-ready, intermediate, advanced, ov…

the frontend developer roadmap is a hot mess and looks like it is intended as humor, especially in contrast to the backend developer which is much more descriptive

Re: Developer Roadmaps

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Post by ioquf »

Thorentis wrote: post #2

Would love to see a roadmap added for embedded development or system level programming etc. There is a huge emphasis on "the web" when it comes to software engineering, that people forget (especially college students figuring out a career path), that there are many jobs in defence, hardware companies, etc. that develop software without using any web technologies at all.

I am interested in this too. I am trying actually to start embedded development for a specific platform, but it's hard to understand where is a good starting point even as experienced software developer.

Re: Developer Roadmaps

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Post by proverbialbunny »

ioquf wrote: post #25
Thorentis wrote: post #2

Would love to see a roadmap added for embedded development or system level programming etc. There is a huge emphasis on "the web" when it comes to software engineering, that people forget (especially college students figuring out a career path), that there are many jobs in defence, hardware companies, etc. that develop software without using any web technologies at all.

I am interested in this too. I am trying actually to start embedded development for a specific platform, but it's hard to understand where is a good starting point even as experienced software developer.

This is a generalized 2cents, but: Go around online looking for any and every job post you can find in that space. Tally up what is most common to what is least common. Bonus points for profiling into subgroups of common requirements.

As someone who has quite a bit of experience as a systems level engineer, who has written code for custom hardware, but is not a firmware engineer (in other words, grain of salt here): Knowing C (or C++) well enough to be able to write threaded code is super important, for not all but many jobs. (Or at least know the concepts, eg the different kinds of atomics.) Knowing I²C or similar is a good idea. Knowing or dipping your toes into DSP can be helpful. Know at least mean squared error, and how to do a bandpass. And bonus points (though very few people in the embedded space know it) is learn Rust. It will teach you good programming practices that most firmware engineers do not know. Many of them are stuck bug testing run time errors day in and day out, instead of letting the compiler do it for them. (Again, 2 cents on all of this. Best to get actual requirements from job posts.)

Re: Developer Roadmaps

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Post by greggman2 »

I think I don't understand these. They seem too high level to actually be useful. There's a old Steve Martin skit from the 70s where he's says he's going to tell you "How to get a million dollars and never pay taxes...... Step 1: Get a million dollars ...". These roadmaps seem about that level.

Am I missing it? Are these actually useful? For example clicking backend the first thing is it lists 14 languages (although two of these items are not languages). How is that useful to someone? Which one should they pick? How would someone that didn't already know these languages and their strengths and weaknesses get useful info from that? Sorry I'm not trying to be critical just wondering how this is helpful.

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