A Programmer’s Guide to Online Personal Branding

This article is about creating a personal online brand, which I think it’s a powerful method of making one’s business known to a broad audience. The world today has changed drastically, and the internet has largely taken over the traditional platforms of advertisement such as billboards, television, etc. When it comes to online branding, programmers are not an exception. Programmers need to maintain active multiple online profiles in platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and GitHub. I have learned a lot about GitHub in this article, and I think I will use it to post my codes in a bid to develop my online personal brand.

Soft and Interpersonal Skills for Developers

What It Takes To Be an Ethical Programming Professional

These two articles provide the qualities skills of a professional developer. One of the core interpersonal skills of a developer is the ability to communicate effectively. I found the discussion about building on interpersonal skills very helpful since most are the times we as software developers put more emphasis on developing our technical expertise and forget that the soft skills are equally essential to have. Communication skill is critical as it determines how we interact with fellow developers during project development. The article on ethics in the programming professional was very revealing. I find the subject on ethics very intriguing and in as much as want to defend my profession, there is a lot of ethical issue around programming. But as I have learned in the article on “ethical programming,” a programmer should be in a position to develop ethical boundaries and learn how to handle complicated ethical situations when they come up.