Beyond the Classroom: A Practical Guide to Software Engineering

Welcome to Beyond the Classroom: A Practical Guide to Software Engineering.

This is an online open source textbook using a tool started by the Open Education Project (OPE), a collaboration between Boston University and Red Hat Research. Think of it as the semester of your college education you never knew you needed. The ideal audience for this book is recent graduates and current students, or anyone with a programming background. This book aims to help people adjust from academia to professional software development environments by bridging the gap between academic theory and the demands of professional practice. It also shares insights from actual engineers, with a focus on skill gaps and imposter syndrome, a familiar feeling for many young engineers.

If you’d like to read more about open sourcing education, share your own knowledge, author your own textbook, please check out the OPE CLI tool: OPEFFORT/tools

Part of what makes this project so exciting is that anyone can take part in it. If you would like to add/remove/suggest an edit for this book, and help contribute to open sourcing education, feel free to open a pull request on my book here: memalhot/dev

If you’d like to read more about the Open Education Project, you can check what we are working on here: https://research.redhat.com/blog/research_project/foundations-in-open-source-education/