Sedat Kapanoglu

Sedat Kapanoğlu is a self-taught software developer from Eskişehir, Turkey, who later worked as an engineer at Microsoft Corporation in Seattle, Washington, in the Windows Core Operating System division. His professional software development career spans three decades.

Sedat is the youngest of five children born to Bosnian parents who emigrated from the former Yugoslavia to Turkey. He founded the most popular Turkish social platform in the world, Ekşi Sözlük (https://eksisozluk.com), which means “sour dictionary.” In the 1990s, he was active in the Turkish demoscene, which is an international digital art community for creating code-generated graphical and musical presentations.

Find him on Twitter @esesci or on his programming blog at https://ssg.dev.

books by Sedat Kapanoglu

Street Coder
  • December 2021
  • ISBN 9781617298370
  • 272 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish

Street Coder teaches you how to handle the realities of day-to-day coding as a software developer. Self-taught guru Sedat Kapanoğlu shares down-and-dirty advice that’s rooted in his personal hands-on experience, not abstract theory or ivory-tower ideology. You’ll learn how to adapt what you’ve learned from books and classes to the challenges you’ll face on the job. As you go, you’ll get tips on everything from technical implementations to handling a paranoid manager.