Want to get your first job as a programmer?

You're in luck! Zero to Code is a book about how to get your first programming job .

Many people looking for a new job are strapped for cash, so Zero To Code will always be free to read on the web. But I do have a dog to feed -- Buy a copy to support this book's completion!

Enjoy the book!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Zero To Code is a work in progress. Unfinished chapters are marked in progress.

    PART I: PROGRAMMER ORIENTATION

  1. The Goal: Getting Your First Programming Job
  2. How This Book Is Organized
  3. How To Program If You Cannot (Learning)
  4. How To Use This Book
  5. Tips For Success

    6. PART II: ON-THE-JOB TRAINING

  6. A Workflow For Making Webpages
  7. Software Development Processes, or 'How To Make Software'
  8. Get a Text Editor
  9. Hacking The Mainframe
  10. Your First Webpage
  11. Keep Track of Your Code Files With Git
  12. Make Copies of Your Code Files with Git Branches
  13. Your First Webpage Deployment With GitHub Pages
  14. Interlude: A Mock Interview About Developer Workflow
  15. It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know
  16. Build Your GitHub Resume
  17. Welcome To The Club
  18. Part 2 Checklist

    19. PART III: BUILDING BLOCKS

  19. Make Webpages Look The Way You Want Them To
  20. How The Internet Works
  21. Just Enough HTML To Be Dangerous
  22. Structuring Content With HTML, Serving It Locally With Python
  23. CSS: Connecting And Applying Styles
  24. Turning Mockups Into Code
  25. The Box Model - How To Think About Webpage Content
  26. The CSS Dojo
  27. The Big Picture - Layout, Grid Systems, and Responsive Web Design
  28. Flex Your Responsive Webpage Skills
  29. Libraries and Lazy Coders - How To Make Better Software With Less Effort
  30. Build Your House With CSS Libraries
  31. Keep Building, Keep Pushing Code
  32. Recap
  33. Checklist

    34. PART IV: BUILDING SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

  34. Software Engineering: How To Program If You Cannot
  35. A More Complete Programming Language
  36. JavaScript: The Language of the Web
  37. Toy Problems, Real Interviews
  38. Manipulating Webpages: The Document Object Model and Other Browser APIs
  39. JavaScript Libraries
  40. AJAX The Mighty: The Rise of Web Applications
  41. Data Pipelines, API servers, and Node.js: JavaScript On The Command Line
  42. Libraries and Lazy Coders - Using `npm` to Create and Use Node Packages
  43. Frontend + Backend = Full-Stack in progress
  44. Single-Page Web Applications in progress
  45. Databases: Dropping ACID with PostgreSQL in progress
  46. One Book Can Only Take You So Far! Ten Concepts We Didn't Cover in progress
  47. Recap in progress
  48. Checklist in progress

    49. PART V: GETTING THE JOB

  49. "The Funnel": An Overview of the Programming Hiring Process in progress
  50. Sourcing Potential Employers in progress
  51. The Phone Screen in progress
  52. The Take-home Project in progress
  53. Interlude: The Interview in progress
  54. Programming Trivia in progress
  55. Negotiating The Offer in progress
  56. Accepting The Offer in progress

    57. EPILOGUE: YOUR SOFTWARE CAREER

  57. Stay Thirsty For Knowledge, My Friends in progress

    58. Appendices

  58. Appendix A: A Hacker's Bookshelf
  59. Appendix C: Glossary
  60. Appendix B: Workflow Cheatsheet

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Yer a programmer, Harry.