Summary

• Beginner

  • Personal Skills

    • Learn to Debug

    • How to Debug by Splitting the Problem Space

    • How to Remove an Error

    • How to Debug Using a Log

    • How to Understand Performance Problems

    • How to Fix Performance Problems

    • How to Optimize Loops

    • How to Deal with I/O Expense

    • How to Manage Memory

    • How to Deal with Intermittent Bugs

    • How to Learn Design Skills

    • How to Conduct Experiments

  • Team Skills

    • Why Estimation is Important

    • How to Estimate Programming Time

    • How to Find Out Information

    • How to Utilize People as Information Sources

    • How to Document Wisely

    • How to Work with Poor Code

    • How to Use Source Code Control

    • How to Unit Test

    • Take Breaks when Stumped

    • How to Recognize When to Go Home

    • How to Deal with Difficult People

• Intermediate

  • Personal Skills

    • How to Stay Motivated

    • How to be Widely Trusted

    • How to Tradeoff Time vs. Space

    • How to Stress Test

    • How to Balance Brevity and Abstraction

    • How to Learn New Skills

    • Learn to Type

    • How to Do Integration Testing

    • Communication Languages

    • Heavy Tools

    • How to analyze data

  • Team Skills

    • How to Manage Development Time

    • How to Manage Third-Party Software Risks

    • How to Manage Consultants

    • How to Communicate the Right Amount

    • How to Disagree Honestly and Get Away with It

  • Judgment

    • How to Tradeoff Quality Against Development Time

    • How to Manage Software System Dependence

    • How to Decide if Software is Too Immature

    • How to Make a Buy vs. Build Decision

    • How to Grow Professionally

    • How to Evaluate Interviewees

    • How to Know When to Apply Fancy Computer Science

    • How to Talk to Non-Engineers

• Advanced

  • Technological Judgment

    • How to Tell the Hard From the Impossible

    • How to Utilize Embedded Languages

    • Choosing Languages

  • Compromising Wisely

    • How to Fight Schedule Pressure

    • How to Understand the User

    • How to Get a Promotion

  • Serving Your Team

    • How to Develop Talent

    • How to Choose What to Work On

    • How to Get the Most From Your Team-mates

    • How to Divide Problems Up

    • How to Handle Boring Tasks

    • How to Gather Support for a Project

    • How to Grow a System

    • How to Communicate Well

    • How to Tell People Things They Don't Want to Hear

    • How to Deal with Managerial Myths

    • How to Deal with Organizational Chaos

• Appendix A * Bibliography/Websiteography

• Appendix B * History (As of January 2016)

• Appendix C * Contributions (As of January 2016)