In the always-connected, always-online digital age and social media world, we tend to forget how life was before the ubiquity of laptops, tablets, mobile devices, smartwatches, and so on. The terms such as outsourcing, offshoring, nearshoring, and many more did not exist. The Indian IT industry was in its infancy. Aithal takes us on an exciting walk down memory lane as he weaves his narration to pen his experiences migrating from Mumbai to New York—a culture shock. As the title suggests, the story combines his experiences in settling down in America and the dawn of IT opportunities. Both, adjusting to the social life in the US—where he faces the challenges of day-to-day life–and the professional life. Peppered with humorous anecdotes in his early years of settling down in the US, the story makes an easy read with revealing details that many second-generation Indian-Americans are unaware of. $7.95 on Kindle.
Confessions of an Indian Immigrant: Dawn of IT Opportunities in the Land of Promise
Coding for Kids in C++: Learn to Code with Amazing Activities, Games and Puzzles in C++
Are you looking to teach children how to code? Or are you looking to start coding?
This book on beginner C++ is the answer.
For the last couple of years, the news keeps talking about the digital economy and how everyone needs programmers. It seems like everyone wants to learn how to code. However, it is not that easy. Coding is a skill and like any skill it takes time to learn. Like any skill, the younger you start; the better you get. $1.99 on Kindle.
Coding Interview Insights
If you’re a computer programmer or coder who constantly messes up at interviews and has trouble landing the job of your dreams, then read on: This book could change your life—and move your career into top gear!
Interviews are never easy. And if you’re applying for a coding job, the interview process is harder than most.
Not only do you have to answer all those tricky questions about yourself and why you want the role, but you could be asked to come up with complex algorithms on the spot or write faultless code on a whiteboard.
You keep failing and find yourself in a never-ending cycle of interviews and rejections.
But it won’t be that way for long. When you follow the guidance and expert tips contained in this book, you’ll be able to crack your next coding interview and land yourself a job in one of the top tech companies!
The key to performing well in a coding interview is preparation.
So, don’t try to wing it.
Instead, it’s important to prepare thoroughly, so you can answer the questions you’re asked better than everyone else.
Inside Coding Interview Insights, you’ll discover:
How to prepare for a coding interview
How to create a résumé that stands out to tech recruiters
How to answer technical and non-technical questions
How to interact with your interviewer
How to get a job at a tech giant
How to negotiate when you receive an offer
How to avoid making common mistakes
And much, much more!
Whether you’re searching for your first tech job or are an experienced programmer who’s trying to move up the ladder, this book will set you up for interview success.
So, don’t put your career on hold. Buy this book today—and get ready to ace your next coding interview! $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Foot in the Door: My Self-Taught Journey Becoming a Software Engineer
Want to break into the tech industry? Don’t have a computer science degree? About four years ago I was in your very shoes. I graduated college with an art degree and quickly realized that “professional artist” was not going to be a viable career path. Design seemed like a possible alternative, but I also found I did not enjoy working directly with clients.
What I did know was that I loved games ever since I was a little girl and I loved to build things and show them off. I applied to some entry level software developer positions, but nobody called me back. I knew I needed more training, a portfolio, connections, something more.
In this book you will learn how to adopt the programmers mindset to tackle difficult coding challenges, strategies to help figure out the best coding resources for you, what kinds of problems you are likely to face at different stages of your journey, and how to calibrate your bullshit detector to avoid abusive managers. You will also learn ways to solidify your knowledge by teaching and mentoring others, coping with imposter syndrome and transition anxiety, and options for learning to code with limited time at your disposal. Free on Kindle.
Free: Climbing the Corporate Ladder
Father, Blogger, U.S.Navy Veteran, and 20-year IT Professional Dean Cantave shares a very personal story on how he separated from the U.S. Military in 2006 and entered into civilian life to build his Information Technology career. He shares the strategy, the mindset, and the action plan that he used to go from $15 an hour to a 6-figure salary in Information Technology by the age of 35. Free on Kindle.
Protecting Yourself In Our Advancing Cyber World
This book is intended to help the average person bridge the knowledge gap and address the wide array of risks that many of us face in today’s world of complex and emerging technology; especially as we are often forced to integrate that technology into our daily lives more rapidly than we can gain sufficient competence to understand, utilize and control it.
Included is a comprehensive description of the various types of cyber threats and protective measures, along with case studies, an online self-evaluation, and over 200 link references for further study. $1.99 on Kindle.
Free: HyperTurnaround!: Transforming a Tech Company on the Brink of Collapse into a World Class Global Leader
This book provides a rare insight into how you can rapidly turnaround a tech company on the brink of oblivion and then turn defense into attack by changing its growth trajectory from a death spiral to exponential global growth culminating in a takeover by a tech giant.
This book’s lessons are particularly important and relevant for anyone with a tech company that is failing or struggling to scale globally. It will illustrate what is real and achievable at a grassroots level, for tech entrepreneurs in particular. Not everyone is a behemoth like Facebook or Google or aspires to be. For every one of those, there are 10,000 tech companies that die or fail to scale. This book illustrates how you can fix and scale up a tech company at pace and achieve great success in the process.
The lessons from this book are applicable for any business that needs to be urgently turned around and /or has an ambition to scale up fast globally. Free on Kindle.
