50. Back to Basics: 5 Concepts Every Software Developer Should Know

If you’re studying to become a software developer or you’re early in your career, then this episode is for you! We will be covering five basic concepts every developer should know from what a variable is, to the SOLID principles. In the episode, we give a brief overview of our five most important software concepts as well as direct you to our other episodes if you want to learn more.

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Programming Fundamentals

• Check out Episode 10. Common Data Structures
• Check out Episode 4. Getting Started: The Fundamental Concepts of Coding

Version control

• Check out Episode 20 Why you need Version Control in your Life if you want to learn more about version control
• Check out Episode 22 Git 101 to learn more about Git

Object-Oriented Programming and Popular Design Principles

• Check out Episode 34. What is Object-Oriented Programming? to learn more about OOP and its principles
• Check out Episode 12. What is Good Code? to learn about a bunch of popular design principles.
• Check out Episode 37. Breaking Down the SOLID Principles

Basics of software components

• Check out Episode 9: Types of Software Engineering Roles to learn about different types of software and the people that work on them
• Check out Episode 24 Basics of Software Infrastructure to learn more about the different parts of a software system work together

Debugging and Problem-Solving Skills

• Check out Episode 4. Getting Started: The Fundamental Concepts of Coding (starting at 16.53) to learn more about debuggers and IDE
• Check out Episode 32. Are IDEs the Makeup Bags of the Coding World? (starting at 7.28) to learn even MORE about debuggers and IDE