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<title>Become a software engineer</title>
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<meta name="description" value="How to become a software engineer. The real way.">
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<a href="/"><< back</a>
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<h1>Become an Engineer</h1>
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<p>
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This learning track assumes you have a computer built after 2004, with
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<a href="https://debian.org">Debian Linux</a>, <a href="https://freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> or <a href="https://openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a> installed. (Windows simply won't do.)
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<h2>Start here (read both and do all of the exercises)</h2>
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<a href="https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/index.html">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Sussman et. al</a>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language">The C Programming Language by K&R</a>
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</ul>
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<h2>Getting deeper (read all 3, do all exercises)</h2>
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<a href="https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/">Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick</a>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_and_Programming_Languages">Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce</a>
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</li>
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<a href="https://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/books/gjm.lambook88.pdf">An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus by Greg Michaelson</a>
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<h2>Low level learning</h2>
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<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262640688/the-elements-of-computing-systems/">The Elements of Computing Systems by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken</a>
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<h2>Category theory</h2>
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<a href="https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/">Category Theory for Programmers by Bartosz Milewski</a>
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<h2>High(er) Level Languages (pick at least 2)</h2>
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<a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-perl-4th/9781449321451/">Programming Perl by Christiansen, foy, and Orwant</a>
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<a href="https://learnyousomeerlang.com/">Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good by Fred Hebert</a>
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<a href="http://learnyouahaskell.com/">Learn You a Haskell for Great Good by Miran Lipovaca</a>
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<a href="https://www.stroustrup.com/tour2.html">A Tour of C++ by Stroustrup</a>
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<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/isml/book.pdf">Programming in Standard ML by Robert Harper</a>
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<a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-ruby-programming/9780596516178/">The Ruby Programming Language by Flanagan & Matz</a>
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</ul>
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<p>
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This is the way to becoming a truly great software engineer. I've read all of these books, and I can say that they all manifest within
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me a strong sense of confidence, and the ability to adapt to any situation that might come my way in computer science.
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You may be reading this list, thinking... what about Java or JavaScript??? Now, I don't think these languages are bad per-se, but I do think
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they have the ability to destroy your life. Once you've used Java or JavaScript, there is a good chance you will become closed off from
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the rest of the computing world, falling into a world of patterns and objects. You may also find that languages like these have the adverse
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effect of having incredibly low skill-ceilings, which compounds the idea of you becoming stuck. A low ceiling, and a low floor, is a prison, not
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a tool to conjure the spirits of the computer.
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