Cory Althoff
American author and software engineer best known for The Self-Taught Programmer and The Self-Taught Computer Scientist; advocate for self-taught developers and founder of a community for self-taught programmers; previously worked as a software engineer at eBay.
Books
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1. The Self Taught Programmer
The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
A practical guide for aspiring developers that teaches Python fundamentals alongside the core skills of professional software engineering—object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms, testing, debugging, version control, command-line tools, and networking—while offering concise advice on portfolios, interviews, and teamwork to bridge the gap between self-study and becoming job-ready.