After stewing on it for a while, I decided to start a blog of guides for the budding programmer. This will be covering the basics and some intermediate topics, and if I feel like sharing something more advanced then that may crop up once in a while. This series is intended more to give a crash course on programming and concepts in general and while I may use a programming language for examples, I must emphasize the language does not matter here. The programming language is the means with which to get things done.

Please note that this blog isn't purely for software based topics. This will include some hardware based topics as well because understanding hardware influences how you should design software at times, even if you have an OS that theoretically takes care of everything for you.

As some background of myself:

• My educational background is in Computer Engineering. For those that don't know, the simplified explanation is Computer Engineering is a combined discipline of both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Where the Computer Scientist focuses mostly on software and Electrical Engineer focuses mostly on hardware, the Computer Engineer looks at both in a way to develop computer systems.
  
  So basically that means I have at least a basic background in electrical engineering on top of my software development skills. And while I haven't had a need for it to hash out circuit designs, just knowing the basics of electronics helped me understand computer systems better.
   
• I'm entering the 10th year of my career as a software engineer/developer/whatever they call it these days.
• My development experience is in embedded systems  (or from a high level view, simple computer systems, often not running an OS) and application software.

While I do have a list of topics in mind, feel free to suggest something in this post as a comment and I'll see what I can do.