Core CS Skills
Invest In Yourself and Free Your Voice
One thing every professional developer knows is that educating yourself is the key to career growth and happiness. Feeling like an imposter is toxic to both you and your team.
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“Such a great resource... I really recommend Rob Conery's "The Imposter's Handbook" as a great way to reinforce those fundamentals and core concepts. Rob has been programming for years but without a CS degree. This book is about all the things he learned and all the gaps that got filled in while he was overwhelmed.”
DON'T HAVE A DEGREE AND FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD?
You're not alone friend. Millions of us have felt strongly that we're fooling others and don't deserve the job we have. This feeling is debilitating and you're minutes away from getting over it.
You might think, as I did, that the only way you would truly be able to pass that interview or stay in conversation with your peers is by taking the time (and money and energy) to get a CS degree. I felt this way, many times.
But what if you could just condense all of that material into a single book? With a sprinkle of common sense, humanity and a healthy dose of practical examples? That's exactly what I created.
What is the imposter's handbook?
I spent years studying all of the subjects that go into a Computer Science degree. I looked at the curriculum for Stanford and MIT (and a few others) and dove in. Computation, Complexity Theory, Encryption, Blockchain, Algorithms and Data Structures, Lambda Calculus and more. I wrote it down and decided to share it all.
Instead of a wall of theoretical text, I did my best to make them as human as possible, with hand-drawn sketches of complex topics that took me days (and sometimes months) to figure out. I wanted to write a technical book for humans that would convey the magic of our industry.