Hi everyone and welcome to the T-Shape course!

This is a brief introduction where I'll provide you with some information about that course. So, T-Shape is a course (mostly for Java developers) that includes two big parts - T-Shape Engineer articles and T-Shape Engineer project. Plus, this small web page you can use as a navigation tool to get through the course.

In the first part of the T-Shape course (T-Shape Engineer articles) I would like to share my knowledge with you about back-end and front-end. As I'm a Java developer the main language will be Java. We will talk about Java itself, computer science, network programming, patterns, architecture, microservices, and security. Regarding the front-end there will be JavaScript (native JS), Vue.js, React, PWA (Progressive Web Apps), DevOps, and so on. I will try to organize all this stuff in an understandable and accessible form.

The second part is more like a physical representation of the first part, we will create a project called "Mister Keeper". The whole process of creation of this project is based on knowledge shared in the first part, so step by step, article by article "Mister Keeper" will be created from scratch. "Mister Keeper" is a web application where you can keep information about books, music, movies, and games. Searching, rating, reviewing, sharing information with your friends, and so on (it's a kind of a social network). All in one place. "Mister Keeper" has two parts: the back-end part (the source code is here) and the front-end part (the source code is here)

Last but not least this "navigation" tool. You can consider it as a starting point to start your journey. I hope it will help you to go through the articles and see the whole picture of the course. You can start from the current small description and then take a look at the T-Shape Engineer schema - it's a diagram that depicts all topics that will be covered. Maybe I will extend it in near future with new interesting topics. The last thing, it's the T-Shape Engineer articles - also a diagram with links to the specific article on DZone.com portal. This diagram will be growing with every new article published on DZone.

That's all. I wish you all the best and take care!