programming-topics.md

• Communication
• Problem solving/decomposition
• Functional programming (FP)
  • pure functions
  • side effects (FP doesn't want them!)
  • higher order functions
  • monads
  • category theory
• Imperative, Structural, and Procedural programming
  • See https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/117092/whats-the-difference-between-imperative-procedural-and-structured-programming
• Object-oriented programming (OOP)
  • classes
  • methods
  • constructor/destructor
  • polymorphism
  • inheritance
  • overriding
  • interfaces
  • visibility
• Programming language concepts
  • Compiled vs interpreted
  • Bytecode
  • Static/dynamic typing: http://wiki.c2.com/?StaticTyping
  • Stong/weak typing
• Data structures
  • List
  • Tree
  • Map
  • Set
  • Graph
• Version Control
  • git
    • branches
• Unix/Linux
  • processes
  • files
  • command line
  • bash scripting language
• Concepts
  • bits & bytes
  • scope
  • closures
  • regex
  • hash
  • encryption (symmetric vs asymetric)
  • caching
  • recursion
  • parallelism / concurrency
  • atomicity
  • big-o
  • sorting
  • searching
  • generators
  • serialization (JSON, XML, binary formats, ...)
  • blocking vs asynchronous operations
• Databases
  • Relational databases
  • SQL
• Web development
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript
  • HTTP
  • templating
• Development
  • Library vs framework
  • Test driven development
  • Refactoring
  • Cohesion vs coupling

Misc links

• https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-phone-screen-questions
• http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/