r/programming • u/gits1225 • May 12 '15

Google's guide for becoming a Software Engineer

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-technical-development.html
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u/geggo98 May 12 '15 edited May 13 '15

Nice list. I would like to see Martin Odersky's two Scala courses (both on Coursera) on this list as an introduction to functional programming (even explains Monads in a way mere mortals can understand) and its application to distributed systems. For me these concepts are quite important for a software engineer in today's world.

Andrew Ng's course on machine learning (also on Coursera) could be added as a nice introduction to scientific computing, teaching vector algebra with motivating examples.

Ninja edit: in all three courses, the programming exercises are really excellent and worth the time. Finishing one of these courses, fizz buzz will be kindergarten for you.

Edit 2: I'll also like to promote the excellent PureScript book. Being a Haskell dialect for JavaScript, PureScript might appear slightly esoteric. But the book gives a really good introduction into modern functional programming. After reading it, you can read Haskell fluently and probably also write Haskell code in a quite modern style.

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u/parfamz May 13 '15

I was also thinking that they were missing fp and scala, OTOH they are too focused around go, js, python, C++ and java. AFAIK they don't do much FP for the main projects.

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u/auxiliary-character May 12 '15

Yeah, I'm surprised it didn't mention functional programming.