https://github.com/cdiggins/softwaredevessentials

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cdiggins/softwaredevessentials
• Owner: cdiggins
• Created: 2025-06-24T15:30:52.000Z (9 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
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README

          
# SoftwareDevEssentials

**An open guide to the essential skills every professional software developer should master.**

## 📌 Why This Exists

Today, it’s easier than ever to build working software — LLMs, frameworks, web-sites, samples, and tools have lowered the bar for entry. That’s a good thing.

But it also means that **many developers enter the industry with critical gaps in their knowledge**. They may not realize what skills are expected of them in a professional environment — until they're already on the job.

This isn’t just a challenge for self-taught developers.

Even students pursuing Computer Science degrees often graduate **without exposure to practical software development**, system design, or modern tooling workflows. 

Others may be experts in one niche but unaware of foundational skills expected in others.

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## 🎯 Who This Is For

- 🧠 **Self-taught learners** building their own curriculum

- 🎓 **Students** supplementing university courses

- 🛠️ **Junior developers** preparing for job interviews or career transitions

- 🧭 **Career changers** unsure what to focus on next

- 🧑‍🏫 **Mentors & educators** looking for a skill checklist

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## 📚 What's Inside

This repository is a curated list of **core skills** and **concepts** that every software developer should know to be effective in real-world, professional settings. 

It’s not about chasing trends — it’s about building solid, adaptable foundation that will last you throughout a career, even while technology continues to evolve 

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## 🤝 Contributing

This guide is a living document. If you’ve worked in the industry and noticed a skill many new developers are missing — open a PR! If you’re learning and found something confusing that should’ve been obvious — let’s document it.

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## 🧭 The Goal

To help software developers become **competent, confident, and adaptable professionals** — not just coders, but engineers of quality, maintainable software who can quickly learn and use new tools effectively.

This is done by achieving a deep understanding of how things work. 

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**There is no magic in computer programming, but anything is possible.**

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# Topics:

- Command Line programming

  - Files

  - Pipes

  - Processes

  - Sockets 

  - Standard In, Standard Out, Standard Error

  - Command Line Arguments

  - Environment Variables

  - Console formatting

  - Batch file scripting (BASH, ZSH, DOS BAT)

- Markup Languages

  - JSON

  - XML

  - YAML

  - HTML

  - SVG

  - INI files

  - LUA

- Graphics

  - 2D Graphics

  - Bitmaps

  - 3D graphics

  - MPEG encoding

- Numerical Representations

  - Bits and Bytes Operations

- Floating-point Numbers

  - How they are represented

  - Accuracy    

- Text and Strings

  - Unicode

  - ASCII

- Date Time

  - Representations

- Compression

  - Huffman encoding

  - RTL 

- Memory Management

  - Stack

  - Heap

  - Alignment

  - Big-endian / Little-endian

  - Virtual memory

  - Cache

  - Garbage Collection

  - Memory fragmentation 

- Software Optimization

  - Profilers

  - Cache effects

  - Benchmarking

  - Dangers of early optimization    

- Boolean Logic and Algebra

  - Lambda Calculus

  - SKI Calculus 

- Software Organization

  - Source files

  - Project files

  - Solution files

  - Configuration files

  - Class libraries

  - Versioning

  - Packages 

- Operating Systems

  - File systems     

  - Virtual memory

  - Executables

  - Dynamically linked libraries  

- Programming Language Survey

    - Forth

    - Logo

    - JavaScript

    - Python

    - Scheme

    - C

    - Basic

    - ML

    - Haskell

    - C++

    - Rust

    - C#

    - Java

    - Excel

- Programming Paradigms

   - Object-oriented

   - Prototype-based

   - Functional

   - Data-flow

   - Eager versus Lazy Evaluation

- Parsing

  - Regular expressions

  - Context Free Grammars

  - Concrete Syntax Tree (aka Parse Trees)

  - Abstract Syntax Trees 

- Compilers

  - Lexical Analysis

  - Syntactic Analysis

  - Parsers

  - Byte-code

  - Optimization techniques

  - Foreign function interfaces

  - Calling conventions 

- Computer Architecture

   - Memory allocators

   - Assembly code

   - Bytecode 

 - Programming techniques

    - Structured programming

    - Event driven

    - Asynchronous programming

    - Threads

    - Reflection 

 - Internet Protocols

    - HTTP

    - TCP/IP

    - Web-Sockets

- Databases

  - Relational databases

  - NoSQL database

  - Graph databases

- Web-Programming

  - JavaScript

  - JQuery

  - TypeScript

  - Node.JS

  - React

  - Rest APIs

  - RPC

  - Postman

  - Curl

  - Web-server

  - CORS

- Security

  - Hashing   

  - Cryptography

  - PGP

  - Data management best practices

  - Hardening

  - Types of attacks

- Abstract Data Types and Collections

  - Arrays

  - Dynamic Arrays

  - Stack

  - Queue

  - Dequeue

  - Binary Tree

  - Linked-List

  - Doubly Linked-List

  - K Tree   

- Algorithmic Complexity (Big O)

  - Algorithmic Design Techniques

- Software Engineering Principles

  - Management

  - Dependency Injection

  - Inversion of Control

  - Don't Repeat Yourself

  - Reduce Coupling

  - Encapsulation

  - Information Hiding

  - Law of Demeter

  - Liskov Substitution Principle

- Graphical User Interface

  - WinForms

  - QT

  - WPF

  - MVC

  - MVVM

  - Spaghetti event code

  - Terminal UI using Console Codes