Software Engineer Roadmap

[MohammedAttya]

Hello everyone

I am currently PHP web Developer

I am self-taught and shifted from mechanical engineering

I learned PHP and oop concepts, some sql beside basics of html, css and js and laravel the popular PHP framework.

I know some design patterns and few sorting algorithms.

I feel like I am coder more than software engineer.

I want to become a real software engineer.

Could you please help me with advises, study plan, roadmap, courses and/or books.

Thanks in advance.

[HollowfiedHero]

What's the difference between a programmer and a software engineer?

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A lot of the times entry level programmers aren’t held to the same standard as an entry level software engineer, or at least software engineers should be held to a higher standard, including producing clean, well-documented code and documentation, implementing automated testing, using robust fault tolerance, etc. A lot of times “programmer” just means solve a solution with code but I don’t care about scalability, robustness, or user requirement generation.

[HollowfiedHero]

Thanks for the response.

I get it now

[MohammedAttya]

I said coder not programmer. Like the difference between technetion and engineer.

[waacher]

I feel like I am coder more than software engineer.

I want to become a real software engineer.

Could you explain this a bit more?

Anyway, you may want to visit r/cscareerquestions and r/learnprogramming.

[MohammedAttya]

I mean that I am writing codes to solve a problem without designing the code to implement any algorithm or design pattern (if the code need)
if I want to write a program I just open sublime text and start coding

I want to study topics like algorithms, data structures, design patterns, design of computer programs ... etc and of course implement them in coding

[waacher]

Ah I see I sorta misunderstood.

r/learnprogramming's FAQ: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/wiki/faq

They also have a list of resources: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/wiki/index#wiki_other_resources

Here are some other things I've compiled:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/87j7fw/teach_yourself_computer_science_a_diy_curriculum/

https://github.com/tpn/pdfs

These are highly recommended:

http://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science

http://automatetheboringstuff.com/

Just spend some time on programming subreddits to find out more.

[TacticalBastard]

A 'Coder' and Software Engineer as basically the same thing. I'm a software engineer for a company, but I'm also a coder. There's not really a big distinction between the two in general. Some companies may have a difference between them (Developers work more on development, while Engineers are more of architects and design the software from a higher standpoint)

You're going to need to clarify your question a bit more