In April of this year (2020), After I went into home quarantine
because of the Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), I decided to take my long-term paper off my hands, writing an e-book about my area of study and profession that is programming.
When I started I wanted so much that I had so much
script information to become a developer with a capital D,
but it wasn't like that, I had to suffer being a self-taught person, looking for ways to learn alone, until my current skills and focuses arrived.
So I decided to write something that would be a roadmap for other
beginning developers to become a modern developer,a developer who really knows where he is going and doesn’t go through everything and maybe find frustration and think about giving up.
I wrote a small e-book in Portuguese, which is my official language,but if you want to read, just use the google translator or contact me and I'll translate just for you!
You can download the e-book by clicking here: martindala.github.io/DevModerno
And don't forget to leave a star on my github: github.com/MartinDala
Now stop doing marketing and let's go to the tips I prepared on how you can write your e-book also with knowledge you have.
1-Initial Planning:
No wonder this is the first step, you should plan everything, be it the summaries, the title of the book, the focus of the book,
if it is a general book for example like mine, you must specify this, or if it will be something more technical like an e-book
specific ReacJs, Flutter or something else. You should do the planning of what the e-book will be about, what solutions it
will have to resolve, and what specific steps you want to pass on to the reader.
2-Knowledge
Know what you write !, Have you ever imagined you writing about Flutter, Java script or something else and you don't know much about it ?,
I don't want you to know everything, just that you have knowledge about what you write, because at one time or another you can be approached for that.
3-Choose a Text Editor
Choose a good text editor that is comfortable for you, easy to use, a good keyboard so you don't slow down when
the ideas come, I advise you to be alone when you are writing, in my case I wrote my e-book in Microsoft Word is very common for those who use the Windows OS, more for you who use MacOs or Linux, I believe you have choices very good for that.
4-Start and stop procrastinating
Start writing, take everything out of your brain and put it on paper, then worry about styling and technical formatting,
now the time is still to get everything out of your brain, all your idea and express it on those white sheets on your monitor.
Something that made me postpone and postpone a lot was procrastination, postponing days that I had scheduled to write. Don't let it consume you, Plan days that you will write.
5-Publish your e-book
You don't need to use Amazon, or other bookstores, you don't need to sell yet, create an audience. in my case I left my e-book in my
Mediafire to find out how many are downloading the e-book, you can also create an e-book website where each person canby your email and know how many are downloading.
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