Software Development and IT – Complete Guide To Key Concepts

For new joiners in IT industry: basics of apps, APIs, testing, Cloud, GIT, deployment, containerisation, SDLC, Scrum

Created by: Kamil Kulik • Software Engineer
Full Stack Typescript Developer

What Will I Learn?

• Get an overview over key concepts of modern, professional software engineering and development
• Learn what an API is, how websites and other apps are using APIs and how an API is built
• Find out what is a web app and how it is built, what are its components and how they interact
• Learn what are the basic programming concepts like programming language, framework, library, database, cloud and much more
• Understand the hottest trend in software development - containers with Docker and Kubernetes
• Understand basic metrics to measure application performance and reliability
• Learn how to scale production applications using different app architectural patterns
• See how developers collaborate with one another and understand the industry standard for codebase storage
• Learn what are some of the popular technologies used by different engineering roles
• Develop an intuition about the basics of software development process (SDLC)

Requirements

• No IT or programming experience needed. You will learn from scratch about all the concepts

Target audience

• People considering a career move into IT without the knowledge about software development
• Non-technical IT professionals wanting to expand their knowledge about all the aspect of software development
• Technical IT professionals like junior software engineers, testers, devOps and designers to bring it all together
• IT recruiters that want to better understand candidates' experience and match them to role descriptions with more confidence
• Curious people who want to learn about IT industry and different areas of expertise in it
• Beginner Python developers
• Beginner full-stack developers
• Beginner Frontend developers
• Beginner Java developers
• Beginner manual testers
• Beginner test automation engineers
• Beginner devOps
• Beginner data engineers
• Software project managers
• IT project managers
• IT business analysts
• IT product owners