Lessons learned on my path from ordinary developer to writer of multiple programming books—that sell
Hi, I’m Azat, and as of this writing, I’ve created fivebooks on programming (both self-published and traditionally published). And I want to share my experience with you so you can avoid mistakes, pick the easiest and fastest route to success, help others learn tech, and add a source of passive income. Publish your first book and become a programmer that writes, or simply progwriter!
The ProgWriter resource will include materials on how to:
Conduct a proper research and identify trends
Produce a good book fast and easy
Apply the best tools and skills to tech writing
Structure well and use proper styles
Pre-sale and launch a book
Properly and effectively market a book
#1 Amazon Best Seller in the Client Server category
Blog to Book
The best gems converted from HTML to the book
Rainmaker
The definitive book on the framework
Short book
Lean-publishing book
About Author
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Azat Mardanov has over 12 years of experience in web, mobile and software development. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics and a Master of Science in Information Systems Technology degree, Azat possesses deep academic knowledge as well as extensive practical experience.
Currently, Azat works as a Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer at DocuSign, where his team rebuilds 50 million user product (DocuSign web app) using the tech stack of Node.js, Express.js, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, Jade, Stylus and Redis.
Recently, he worked as an engineer at the curated social media news aggregator website, Storify.com (acquired by LiveFyre) which is used by BBC, NBC, CNN, The White House and others. Storify runs everything on Node.js unlike other companies. It’s the maintainer of the open-source library jade-browser.
Before that, Azat worked as a CTO/co-founder at Gizmo — an enterprise cloud platform for mobile marketing campaigns, and has undertaken the prestigious 500 Startups business accelerator program.