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Dec-11

Published!

 

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Fall-11

Educational book under review. Heading to publisher soon...

 

 

August-08

MCPD:Enterprise Application Developer certification...

 

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April-08

MCT renewed for .NET and Visual Studio...

 

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Book Release Announcement

NoKel Services announces the publication of our first book, "Practical Tools and Techniques for Software Development."
The sub-title of the book says it all: "A Computer Science/Information Technology curriculum companion. Helping students to write better software and also (hopefully) gain an advantage when job hunting."

 

So who is the book for?

  • Soon-to-be graduates of Bachelors, Associates, or Certificate programs in Computer Science or Information Technology with a desire to work as a software developer in a team environment, large or small.
  • Recent graduates who may have had interview questions about source control, test driven development, or refactoring and want to know more about those and other topics.
  • Internship programs that want to introduce enterprise tools and techniques to quickly bring interns up to speed.
  • New-hire programs to familiarize new programmers with tools and techniques not taught in school.

Taken directly from the preface:

"In addition, several of these tools and topics are the ‘extra’ goodies that employers look for experience working with or having a basic understanding of. In discussions with industry hiring managers and technology recruiters, the author has been told repeatedly that fresh college graduates, while having the theoretical knowledge to be hired, often times are lacking in more practical areas such as version control systems, unit testing skills, debugging techniques, interpreting business requirements, and others. This is not to slight or degrade institutional instruction, only to point out that there are tools and techniques that are part of enterprise software development that don’t fit well within the confines of an educational environment. Knowledge of these can give a student an advantage over those are unfamiliar with them."

 

Look for it on Amazon Amazon or CreateSpace.

 

Errata

Below is a list of reported errors in the text. Please check here before sending any unreported errors to ptt_book AT nokelservices DOT com.


  • None so far!

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