There are many ways to get over it mindfulness, therapy , but it all boils down to changing your image of yourself. This doesn't make you a bad person! The truth is that you're letting exterior influences change what you feel about yourself, and that leads to toxic relationships. Let's change your inner conversation and embrace the things you don't know as an opportunity!
When you feel better about yourself, Imposter Syndrome vanishes. Reading about Computer Science concepts can be challenging.
Academics construct sentences like an engineer might build a bridge and casual bloggers don't typically take more than 30 minutes to write a post and even then they forget the most crucial details. My goal with this book was to make it a nice, long conversation where you and I wander through computer science history and get to know the concepts in our own time.
I wrote, then rewrote, then rewrote things AGAIN with the goal of making each chapter as straightforward and human as possible. I also busted out my iPad Pro and doodled my heart out as drawing things helps me understand and helps me use fewer words.
I faced my internal demons and decided enough was enough. I pushed through the fear and anxiety and began to ask as many questions as I could. What a wonderful experience! There are two volumes, or "Seasons" for this book as well as videos. Lots to choose from If you're studying up for an interview you need all the help you can get! With this package you get 32 videos over 6 hours of core CS Concepts with the CompSci Basics video production, which are based on the content in both seasons of The Imposter's Handbook.
You also get 5. In addition, you get coaching from Jon Skeet as he solves 4 Google-inspired interview problems that I throw at him. In addition you get 32 video walkthroughs that enhance and extend the books, offering concise, tightly edited visual walkthroughs of some of the tougher concepts. I also added additional examples such as how to create a one-time pad. You'll read about Complexity Theory, dive into Binary problems and brush up on your Unix skills. You'll receive every update as with all of the packages here and downloadable code samples.
You can download the books at any time as well - just come back here and login. Looking for previous editions? Season 1 or 2? No problem - you can get Season 2 here and Season 1 right here as standalone items. Buying for a team? I offer a massive discount for teams of 10 or so, and you can get that here. The print version of The Imposter's Handbook is currently available for Season 1 only and is sold through Blurb.
Season 1 topics include:. I will never create a "new edition" that you'll have to pay for. That said, this is only for the digital edition. The print version is sold by a different store Blurb and I don't have acces to that. You very well might! It's been a few years and I've worked a lot of things out, but if you find an issue, there's a link in the front of the book where you can log an issue. No, I hate that. I do ask that you not share, however, this book took me a long time to write.
Heck yeah! I get a lot of email from people who have let me know it helped them score a great job. All of the topics in these books directly relate to job interviews! Yes, it should. The problem is that Kindle's have a proprietary format and it's kind of guesswork as to how to get it to layout properly. I've tried a zillion methods and the recent one as of seems to work for most Kindles. Not worth the read for someone fresh out of CS but definitely a must read for developers without CS degree!
View all 3 comments. Mar 15, Dan Watts rated it liked it. This book gets updated from time-to-time, so some of my review may eventually become outdated. First the praise: Rob Conery is an entertaining writer, the code samples are simple and short, and the entire book can be read without being in front of a computer. As promised, it covers a wide range of topics, most of which are likely to cover new ground for the reader.
Aside from the chapter on Unix, there was nothing in here that was simply an "Introduction to The book's forward, written by a well-known Microsoft developer, refers to ""missing fundamentals. I've never heard or read a fellow developer mention Markov chains. Unfortunately this obscure content is mostly located in the 1st half of the book, which seems to suggest the author thinks its important to know. OK, well, I know it now, sorta, but I won't remember any of it in a year's time because I will never come across it again!
Overall, it's a book that has some good parts and some bizarrely high-brow content. If you have been in this field for awhile it will be obvious which is which and you can skip over the latter. YAGNI, as the author preaches but doesn't practice. I pity the young developer who slogs through Lambda Calculus early in the book and wonders if he's in the wrong profession.
Mar 10, Scott Lerch rated it really liked it Shelves: computerscience. I read this book as a refresher and to fill in a few knowledge gaps from my computer science education e. I never took a course on compilers even though the book really wasn't meant for someone like me. Overall, it's clearly written with good examples that are easy to understand.
My only complaint is I wish it had a bit more detail even though I know it's impossible to have a comprehensive computer science education in one book. So read this book as a jumping off point, I'm pretty sure Rob sa I read this book as a refresher and to fill in a few knowledge gaps from my computer science education e. So read this book as a jumping off point, I'm pretty sure Rob says that exact thing in the preface.
If your a programmer without a computer science degree and aren't already familiar with the topics in this book, it definitely won't prepare you for an interview at Amazon, Google or Microsoft. You'll still need to spend hours with external resources, practicing big-O and writing fundamental data structures and algorithms.
Although, to be fair even someone with a computer science degree typically needs to do that before interviewing at big tech companies.
Since the book is such a quick and easy read I'll definitely use it as a refresher before my next set of interviews. May 13, Bojan Skrchevski rated it it was ok Shelves: cs. As someone that has been in the field for over 20 years my expectations about this book were a little bit different, considering how it is advertised "Fill the gaps in your career"? I understand that it is work in progress and to say the task at hand is HUGE is a severe understatement ,but, it's just too superficial and and broad at the current state.
No depth at all. It might be a good reference list for a deeper study of our field, but nothing more. The good stuff: - There is som As someone that has been in the field for over 20 years my expectations about this book were a little bit different, considering how it is advertised "Fill the gaps in your career"? The good stuff: - There is some fairly decent and useful overview information, if your goal is to just skim trough different topics. The bad stuff: - Too broad and horizontal a lot of subject to cover and as a result none of the topics are discussed in details.
This book was recommended to me, when I was "suffering" from a strong impostor syndrome. I was very excited about this book and finally got my hands on a paper not digital copy. Now I have a mixed feeling about it. It made me more confident, as most of the stuff was familiar to me, thus my impostor syndrome has lessened. It made me more keen to have some fun with unix shell of all things.
I have found some more people to follow on github and youtube. And that was good. However paper version seem This book was recommended to me, when I was "suffering" from a strong impostor syndrome. However paper version seems to have some errors - for example there was a link named "here" but the link itself was not there as it's a book :D.
Sometimes there was no a picture where it should be. That somewhat degraded the experience. I would however recommend this book for people who have never heard about Big-O notation, never seen and implemented a shortest path algorithm, or never heard about trees or graphs.
In general I think this is a good book, especially for people without formal CS education. Lots of various topics are covered, however usually on a rather high level which is understandable, as if one would want to deep dive into each topic, one could write a few books about each.
I'd say this book is a good way for the reader to identify which areas need more study. My main issues are: - the printed edition has some errors, sometimes rather annoying incorrect code samples - ie. Quality is good. It is hard to understand or remember them without rereading given chapters. Maybe more examples or summaries would make these topics more memorable? To sum up - if you think you lack CS knowledge or just want to refresh some info, I would say that this is a good read.
Feb 24, Tae rated it liked it Shelves: programming , computing , linux. If I had read it when I started my career as self-taught programmer I would have give it five stars.
It is a good introduction to several topics that most professional programmers must know about IMHO. But the cover says it is a computer science primer for self-taught programmers and the problem is there are four chapters have nothing about computer science. Moreover the functional programming chapter is really shallow. I would prefer on shallow chapter on programming paradigms or an overview of If I had read it when I started my career as self-taught programmer I would have give it five stars.
I would prefer on shallow chapter on programming paradigms or an overview of other classical algorithms instead of the chapters on software design patters, software design principles, testing and Unix. The rest of the chapters where quite useful so I'm going to read the season 2 anyway.
Feb 13, Ieva Gr rated it really liked it Shelves: technical. On the other hand I am not sure if that is the actual purpose of the book. I think it is more of a guide on the things that could be learnt and how that could be achieved. May 26, Garrett rated it liked it. It was pretty good, but not quite what I was hoping for. The range of topics was interesting, but I don't really feel much more confident in any of the them after having read this book.
For a lot of the topics, it seemed to stop just short of actually explaining the thing before abruptly moving on.
I think the author assumes the code examples to be more self-explanatory than they actually are. The book also could have used more editing. I know grammar and punctuation aren't as important as the co It was pretty good, but not quite what I was hoping for.
I know grammar and punctuation aren't as important as the content itself, but the quality of editing does have an effect on how much I feel I can trust the author. Every author needs an editor. Feb 06, Jamund Ferguson rated it it was amazing. This book was fantastic.
It helped me grasp a lot of concepts that I had missed as a self-taught programmer. Certainly, there is a lot more for me to learn, but this book helped me fill a lot of gaps. I liked the sections on BigO, graph theory, lambda calculus, algorithms, etc. The more I study these algorithms the quicker I can recognize them in the code that I'm writing at work everyday.
I would recommend this to anyone that doesn't have a formal background in computer science. Some cha This book was fantastic. Some chapters were boring and I skipped over them, but no worries. Here's a little gem that I came across a few weeks ago, thanks to Twitter: Conery, R. Upload a Thing! Customize a Thing. Download All Files. Select a Collection. Save to Collection. Tip Designer.
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