a book by Dinis Cruz · first edition September 2018 · second edition in the making, dated October 2026
Generation Z Developers
Key concepts and ideas for the next generation of developers.
- Question everything
- Make fact based decisions
- Understand the history of tech
- Learn how to learn
- Understand what game is being played
- Develop intellectual curiosity
- Look under the hood
- Shake things up
The eight lines on the cover are what the book was for. They read more urgently now than in 2018, and the second edition keeps all eight: the manual for getting into development, and getting a job, now that everyone who can brief an agent is a developer.
Read the first edition here Paperback on Amazon Free to read on Leanpub
The first edition, where it lives
Released early and in public, the way the book told its readers to work: on Leanpub at 60% complete, as a paperback, and as Markdown in a Git repository. Those three are the record of v1.0.0, and this site shows that text exactly as released.
Gen Z Developers
139 pages · published 30 September 2018 · ISBN-10 1724194607 · 15.24 × 22.86 cm · one five-star review
amazon.co.uk → PDF and EPUB · LeanpubGeneration Z Developers
free to read online, suggested price $10 · 60% complete, last updated 8 October 2018 · 465 readers · 136 pages, 30,695 words
leanpub.com/generation-z → The source · GitHubBook_Generation_Z_Developer
138 Markdown files, 90 of them outlines · Creative Commons BY on the cover · feedback by GitHub issues · imported here as v1.0.0, frozen
github.com/DinisCruz →“Amazing read for anyone new to, or wanting to get into programming. Brilliant background primer, not just for Gen Z.”Kevin Fielder, on the Amazon listing
“This book teaches young developers how to become a developer. I wish I had this type of book when I started my career.”Matt Parsons, on the Amazon listing
The second edition, in the making
The repository holds the official versions; the vault holds the working versions. The first edition is here exactly as released. Everything after it is worked on in a public vault and moves here when signed off, with a delta between every two versions.
Read it chapter by chapter, outlines included
123 chapters in 8 parts: 34 written, 89 outlines. The Leanpub build left the outlines out; this site shows them, because the second edition starts from them.
123chapters34written89outlines41,703words in the source
The table of contents → On one page →One version so far
Where v1.0.0 comes from, the 2018 change log, and the page that will carry the block-by-block delta to v2.
The map138 files, 89 answered
Every 2018 chapter and outline, the newsroom articles that have since answered it, and the gap.
The teamReviewer, editor, publisher
Each reads, challenges, interviews Dinis and signs off. The first interview script is written.
The vaultRead along
The public working vault, its read key published: the working copy of v1, the board, the reviews, the roles.
The articles behind it
The newsroom series tagged gen-z-book, in the order published, and the two build briefs: captured verbatim.
What this site does not claim
- The second edition is not written. This release has the first edition, the map, the roles, the vault and the versions machinery.
- The map is a first reading. Not every outline has an article, and not every article fits; the reviewer and the editor decide.
- The address is the one proposed, matching the printed cover's Gen Z Developers; to confirm.
- The licence of the 2018 text is to confirm with Dinis: CC BY on the cover, CC BY-SA in the footer, Apache 2.0 on the repository.
Built as the build brief a website to finish the book asked: the new repository with v1 imported as released, a static site showing it chapter by chapter, and a versions page reusing the newsroom's page_versions.py. The agent surface is llms.txt.