As a developer, your image and your mind are your product. So to get what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done with these precious tools. If you want to make a bigger impact, raise your income, and code with purpose, this course will outline the path to get you there. This course is about making a paradigm shift in how you manage your career. We’ll discuss concrete activities and skills that transform average developers into outliers. You’ll learn why developers can’t afford cable, ways to improve your “luck surface area”, and techniques to compress your career through accelerated development. You’ll learn the foundational skills for becoming an outlier: command your time, hack your image, and own your trajectory. Prepare to think about your development career in a whole new way.
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Description

Packt video courses are designed to cover the breadth of the topic in short, hands-on, task-based videos. Each course is divided into short manageable sections, so you can watch the whole thing or jump to the bit you need. The focus is on practical instructions and screencasts showing you how to get the job done. Each video covers a whole feature of the language. It begins with a small amount of theory and ends with a working example, which you can run yourself. If you are a student or would like to dive into the world of software development using the Go language, then this video course is ideal for you. This course assumes that you have some basic knowledge of computer science.
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About the Course
This course introduces the cornerstones of functional programming using the Scala programming language. Functional programming has become more and more popular in recent years because it promotes code that’s safe, concise, and elegant. Furthermore, functional programming makes it easier to write parallel code for today’s and tomorrow’s multiprocessors by replacing mutable variables and loops with powerful ways to define and compose functions.
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Refactoring is a critical developer skill that helps keep code from collapsing under its own weight. Learn how to recognize “code smells” that may indicate the need for refactoring, the refactoring process, and when and how to apply specific refactorings to your code.
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