Anjali Krishnan
software engineer
Rigorous; build things, not just tutorials
Hello, World
Benji sees automation reshaping hospitality and decides to understand it rather than fear it.
Planned · not started yet
Digital life & technology Second chances Ambition Workplace Family home Hopeful Lightly witty
The premise
Benji sees automation reshaping hospitality and decides to understand it rather than fear it. He learns Python and data analysis in the evenings, builds a portfolio from his restaurant’s own data, and faces technical interviews where he is the oldest beginner in the room.
The protagonist
Benji Okoye-Ruiz — 29-year-old restaurant manager learning to code
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Max Fitzalan-Ng
bootcamp instructor
Energetic; consistency beats intensity
Greta Lindström
engineering hiring manager
Candid; hiring looks for problem-solving
How the story moves
Eighteen months to a first developer job; his restaurant-data project becomes the portfolio piece that gets him hired.
What readers take away
- Programming fundamentals in Python
- Data types and control flow
- Working with tables and CSV files
- Basic data analysis and visualisation
- Version control with Git
- Building a portfolio project
- Technical interviews
- Learning strategies for self-taught coders
- Use SQL for data queries
- Write clean, readable code
- Use online documentation effectively
- Contribute to open source
The books
- 1Hello Planned
- 2Data Planned
- 3The project Planned
- 4The interview Planned
- 5Day one Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.