Software Engineering Principles

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Practice important skills you'll need to be a successful software developer — testing, debugging, design, documentation, and open source.

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Familiarity with basic programming concepts.

Testing

Testing is essential for making sure your code works and is maintainable into the future. The resources below will help you understand how to effecively test your code.

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What is software testing?
- Testing

Debugging

Debugging is a crucial skill for writing code. Often when you first try to run your code, you'll see an error message or you want see the results that you expected. The resources below will help you learn how to effectively find and fix bugs.

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How to debug your code
- Debugging

Open source

Open source software is a critical part of the tech industry and a great way for you to practice collaborating and writing code.

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How to contribute to an open source project
- Open Source

Design & Documentation

In order to write complex and sustainable code, it's important for you to design it before you write it and to have documentation explaining how it works.

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10 Tips for clean code
- Documentation
- Clean Code

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Software Engineering Principles

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