
Should You Become a Software Developer
A book you should read before you decide to learn to code
Written by Lukasz Marek Sielski
Published by SIELAY LTD
Genre: Non-fiction
Audience: Aspiring software developers and career changers
Tone: Informative
'Should You Become a Software Developer' by Łukasz Marek Sielski is a comprehensive guide that blends personal narrative with practical advice, emphasizing continuous learning, adaptability, and the diverse opportunities in the tech industry for aspiring software developers.
References in the book
[1] Toronto Star "Dan Price announced a minimum salary of $70,000 to all of his 120 employees back in 2015. It paid off big time" by Amir Barnea, Dec 11th 2020 [https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2020/12/11/dan-price-announced-a-minimum-salary-of-70000-to-all-of-his-120-employees-back-in-2015-it-paid-off-big-time.html](https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2020/12/11/dan-price-announced-a-minimum-salary-of-70000-to-all-of-his-120-employees-back-in-2015-it-paid-off-big-time.html)
[2] [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sielay/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sielay/)
[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1126823/worldwide-developer-gender/
[4] https://datausa.io/profile/soc/software-developers-applications-systems-software
[5] https://honeypotio.github.io/women-in-tech/
[6] https://lvivtech.com/women-in-the-ukrainian-tech-industry/
[7] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information\_technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology)
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[16] https://twitter.com/themarcba/status/1331524869515829248
[17] https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk
[18] https://buffer.com/salaries
[19] [https://becomingmichelleobama.com/](https://becomingmichelleobama.com/)
[20] Popular arcade game from the late 90ties [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikari\_Warriors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikari_Warriors)
[21] A rip of Nintendo from post-soviet states [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus\_(console)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_\(console\))
[22] Turbo Pascal -a popular programming language in the 80 and 90ties. Used often to teach to code. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo\_Pascal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal)
[24] Investment scam where late comers cover the profit of those who joined before them https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/ponzischeme.asp
[25] MailOnline overtakes Huffington Post to become world's no 2 - Arif Durani, campaignlive [https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/mailonline-overtakes-huffington-post-become-worlds-no-2/1066247](https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/mailonline-overtakes-huffington-post-become-worlds-no-2/1066247)
[27] Ben Awad - Coding Interviews are Broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3--22D4E4
[30]LAMP Linux Apache MySQL PHP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP\_(software\_bundle)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_\(software_bundle\))
[31] In 2020, GitHub took copies of the most popular opensource applications and stored them in an apocalypse-proof shelter on the arctic https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/
[33] GDC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwrDpbb25Q&t=2491s
[35] [https://pawlean.com/2019/12/07/how-i-passed-my-aws-ccp-exam](https://pawlean.com/2019/12/07/how-i-passed-my-aws-ccp-exam)
[36] [https://codebar.io/](https://codebar.io/)
[37] [https://queer-code.org/](https://queer-code.org/)
[38] [https://](https://codeyourfuture.io)[codeyourfuture](https://codeyourfuture.io)[.io](https://codeyourfuture.io)
[39] [https://codefirstgirls.org.uk/](https://codefirstgirls.org.uk/)
[40] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return\_on\_investment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_on_investment)
[41] https://magazine.apollocover.com/article/how-to-attract-the-best-talent-to-your-business/
[42] https://medium.com/startup-intern/why-your-startup-needs-great-interns-d7335a7247d2
[43] Kat Włodarczyk https://katwlodarczyk.com/
[44] Machine code - https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine\_code
[45] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/expressions.html
[46] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data\_type
[47] Michael McMillan - A Brief History of the Curly Brace in Programming [https://medium.com/better-programming/a-brief-history-of-the-curly-brace-in-programming-5b3eacdc3f7a](https://medium.com/better-programming/a-brief-history-of-the-curly-brace-in-programming-5b3eacdc3f7a)
[48] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
[49] https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Lukasz\_Marek\_Sielski\_Application\_2006
[50] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version\_control
[51] You can go to [https://github.com/sielay/eleventy](https://github.com/sielay/eleventy) and see that my repository is a fork of https://github.com/11ty/eleventy.
[52] [https://github.com/zachleat](https://github.com/zachleat)
[53] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/
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[55] https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/
[56] https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/
[57] https://stackshare.io/stacks/trending
[58] https://www.thesoftwareguild.com/blog/build-your-own-technology-stack/
[59] Examples from Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
[60] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api
[61] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/25-most-common-passwords.html
[62] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22277054/slack-android-psa-password-reset-email-plaintext
[64] https://www.thorntech.com/2018/12/passwords-vs-ssh
[65] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code\_injection
[66] https://www.cnet.com/news/solarwinds-hack-officially-blamed-on-russia-what-you-need-to-know/
[67] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle\_Ben
[68] Mary Poppendieck; Tom Poppendieck (2003). [Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit](https://books.google.com/books?id=hQk4S7asBi4C&pg=PA182). Addison-Wesley Professional. pp. 182-. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\)) [978-0-321-15078-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-321-15078-3).
