“Broad ranging” is an understatement. But it’s really sensible info from someone who’s actually been in the trenches both as an engineer and as someone who has to interview and hire engineers. /3

The guy in the video is Rahul Pandey. He went graduated from Stanford and worked at Facebook. He talks about learning how to program, finding jobs, how to pass the dreaded data structures and algorithms interviews that still seem popular, resume writing, and how to ask for feedback. /2

I haven’t read this one all the way through yet, but it’s a great window into the thinking at the time (the book was first released in 1975). And it’s worth comparing it with what we see practiced widely in the dev community today.