Nikolay Kostov's Blog

Lecture about development tools. The video is recorded in 2015 in Bulgarian and is part of the high-quality code course.

Topics covered:

• Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
• Source Control Systems (Git, SVN, TFS)
• Logging Tools
• Bug Tracking / Issue Tracking Systems
• Code Analysis Tools
• Code Decompilation Tools
• Code Obfuscators
• Code Profilers
• Refactoring Tools
• Continuous Integration Tools
• Deployment in the Public Clouds

Lecture about debugging and building rock-solid software. The video is recorded in 2015 in Bulgarian and is part of the high-quality code course.

Topics covered:

• Introduction to Debugging
• Visual Studio Debugger
• Breakpoints
• Data Inspection
• Threads and Stacks
• Finding a Defect

Lecture about code refactoring and improving the quality of existing code. The video is recorded in 2015 in Bulgarian and is part of the high-quality code course.

Topics covered:

• Refactoring
• Refactoring principles and tips
• Code smells
• Refactorings
  • Data level, statement level, method level, class level, system level refactorings, etc.
• Refactoring patterns

Lecture about test-driven development (TDD). The video is recorded in 2014 in Bulgarian and is part of the high-quality code course.

Topics covered:

• Unit Testing Approaches
• Code and Test Approach
• Test-driven Development steps
• Why TDD?
• Myths and Misconceptions

I am extremely happy to share the result of several months of work by me and my colleague Stoyan Shopov - the course "Mathematics for Developers - Part 1", part of the eee.bg platform, where I am the lecturer.

It covers 11 lectures in 136 videos - almost 14 hours of material - plus a PDF book of more than 220 pages, from arithmetic and numeral systems through logic, set theory and geometry to abstract and Boolean algebra. The course is taught in Bulgarian.