After getting some boosts from a small talk with a friend, I decided to make a general list of fields in computer science and software engineering. I got this list from this blog, so there will be a chance this list gonna be developed in the future.

In the previous post I wrote I would create a tree. But somehow visualizing tree is difficult, so I will just make it a list. Then detailing it later for each item in the list. Here we go.

• data structures
• algorithms
• system programming
• source code version control
• build automation
• automated testing
• problem decomposition
• systems decomposition
• communication
• code organization within a file
• code organization across files
• source tree organization
• code readability
• defensive coding
• error handling
• IDE
• API
• frameworks
• requirements
• scripting
• database
• languages with professional experience
• platforms with professional experience
• domain knowledge
• tool knowledge
• languages exposed to
• codebase knowledge
• knowledge of upcoming techs
• platform internals
• books
• blogs

I know this list is very overwhelming, but I do really think I should have tracked my skills and the levels just to make it easier and fun and encouraging to learn. So many things to learn, but isn’t it fascinating?!