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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

By : Jordan Hudgens
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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

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By: Jordan Hudgens

Overview of this book

This is an all-purpose toolkit for your programming career. It has been built by Jordan Hudgens over a lifetime of coding and teaching coding. It helps you identify the key questions and stumbling blocks that programmers encounter, and gives you the answers to them! It is a comprehensive guide containing more than 50 insights that you can use to improve your work, and to give advice in your career. The book is split up into three topic areas: Coder Skills, Freelancer Skills, and Career Skills, each containing a wealth of practical advice. Coder Skills contains advice for people starting out, or those who are already working in a programming role but want to improve their skills. It includes such subjects as: how to study and understand complex topics, and getting past skill plateaus when learning new languages. Freelancer Skills contains advice for developers working as freelancers or with freelancers. It includes such subjects as: knowing when to fire a client, and tips for taking over legacy applications. Career Skills contains advice for building a successful career as a developer. It includes such subjects as: how to improve your programming techniques, and interview guides and developer salary negotiation strategies.
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Chapter 43. How to Create Accurate Freelance Bids?

Being able to give good estimates is one of the most critical tasks you can do as a freelancer. If you quote too low, you'll end up with an angry customer because even if you did great work, he's having to pay more than he budgeted. And if you bid too high, there's a good chance you won't get the job and the potential client will go to a competitor who gave a lower bid.

Over the years, I've been guilty of erring on both sides of the spectrum and I've had to deal with the consequences. Those consequences were not fun, which is why I've put together a formula for you in this chapter that I follow for building bids:

  1. Get a detailed drill down of the project requirements. Without this you won't be able to create an accurate bid no matter what else you do. Imagine if an architect had to give an estimate to a client who said, "I want a nice house with a cool fence." He wouldn't be...
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