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Coding is one of the most in-demand skills in the job market. Whether you're a recent graduate or a professional, Confident Coding offers the career insights and technical knowledge you need for success.
A unique combination of technical insights and fascinating career guidance, this book highlights the importance of coding, whatever your professional profile. For entrepreneurs, being able to create your own website or app can grant you valuable freedom and revolutionize your business. For aspiring developers, this book will give you the building blocks to embark on your career path.
This new and improved third edition of the award-winning book gives you a step-by-step learning guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, building iPhone and Android apps and debugging. Confident Coding is the essential guide to mastering the fundamentals of coding.
About the Confident series...
From coding and data science to cloud and cyber security, the Confident books are perfect for building your technical knowledge and enhancing your professional career.
List of contents
- Chapter - 00: Introduction
- Section - ONE: Why coding
- Chapter - 01: Why coding is important and what it can do for you;
- Chapter - 02: What is coding?;
- Section - TWO: Languages;
- Chapter - 03: HTML;
- Chapter - 04: CSS
- Chapter - 05: JavaScript;
- Chapter - 06: Python;
- Section - THREE: In practice;
- Chapter - 07: Website development;
- Chapter - 08: Building an android app;
- Chapter - 09: Building an iPhone/iPad app;
- Chapter - 10: Debugging;
- Section - FOUR: Futureproofing your career with coding;
- Chapter - 11: Using coding to enhance your career prospects;
- Chapter - 12: Coding and entrepreneurship - creating your own business or product;
- Chapter - 13: Pursuing coding further - becoming a developer;
- Chapter - 14: Conclusion
About the author
Rob Percival is a web-developer and entrepreneur who has taught over 500,000 students how to code through his online courses on Udemy. His courses have been translated into over five different languages and have taught people all around the world to become proficient and confident web-developers. His book Confident Coding, published by Kogan Page, was the bronze runner up in the Business Technology Axiom Awards 2018.Darren Woods is Managing Director of Synapture, a Cambridge-based Web/Software Development Agency. He has first-hand experience of the career-revolutionary potential of learning coding, and alongside his practical development work and running his business, he teaches a Pre-Diploma Computer Science course at a sixth-form college.
Summary
Take your career to the next professional level and give yourself that competitive edge by learning the essentials of coding with this friendly and easy-to-understand guide.
