The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide Quotes

“Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.” —Gary Ryan Blair”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“So many people set off in a direction in life but don’t think things completely through first.”
― John Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“Programming today is more about knowing how to use libraries and frameworks than being an absolute expert in the language.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“Well, I guess it hasn’t been that short a period of time. Soft Skills was released in December of 2014 and I began writing this book in the summer of 2016. But, when you”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“What exactly is a DBA, or database administrator?”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“People are going to think bad things about you no matter what you do; you can’t control that. Don’t try to please other people and worry about what they think of you. Do what you feel is right. Ignore the haters.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“But I do think it’s practical, for not just women, but really anyone in the software development field to grow a thick skin.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“The point is, some women in technology will fit these stereotypes, but that doesn’t mean that all—or even most—do. There are plenty of technically-competent female software developers who are just as passionate about programming and technology as any guy, and are not “guy-like” in nature.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“Women in technology are stereotyped. Many men—and some women—often assume that a female programmer is not going to be as technically competent. A woman in technology can also be thought of as either not as passionate or dedicated as a man, or seen as a geeky anomaly who isn’t very feminine, but hangs with the guys and plays Zelda. Women are often thought to be good testers, but not taken as seriously in software developer roles.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“Use the application itself, if possible, so you can get a feel for the relationship between the code and what the code does.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“pick an open source application—preferably a popular one that is likely to be well-designed—and start looking through the source code.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“There is always some chance that whatever you have could be taken away from you. When you do everything in your power to prevent that from happening, you suck the joy right out of life. Instead, I’ve found that by actually embracing uncertainty, paradoxically, like Tony said, the quality of my life dramatically improved. When I made that pivot in my own life, all of a sudden I wasn’t as stressed out. I still work hard and I still try to make wise decisions, but I do what I can and then I leave the rest up to fate. I can’t control fate and I don’t even bother trying.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“One human being does not lash out and attempt to destroy the work of another human being unless that first human being is in some kind of great pain themselves. Most of the time when someone is attacking you or your work it is more about them than it is about you.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“You either want to learn things that are deeply focused and directly in your specialty, or broad enough to be widely applicable and somewhat timeless. Don’t try and learn a bunch of different programming languages and frameworks that you will likely never use.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“It’s usually a bad bet in software development to prematurely optimize and it’s also usually a bad bet in life.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“So many of us hang around and maintain relationships with people—and sometimes family members—who constantly bring us down instead of lift us up. Life is too short to waste your time with these people. It doesn’t mean you have to cut them out of your life completely, but you can always demote them from friend to acquaintance status.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams

“from the data I have I think it will take at least X amount of time, but I can’t give you an absolute certain answer. What I can do is work as diligently as possible, give you frequent updates on my progress and revise the estimations as frequently as you would like.”
― John Z. Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams