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Every Programmer Should Know 🤔
A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know.
These are resources I can recommend to every programmer regardless of their skill level or tech stack
Highly opinionated 💣. Not backed by science. Comes in no particular order ♻️
⭐ it and share with a friendly developer!
P.S. You don't need to know all of that by heart to be a programmer. But knowing the stuff will help you become better! 💪
P.P.S. Contributions are welcome!
Introduction
- 🎥 Map of Computer Science
- 🎥 40 Key Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman’s Terms
- 📄 Computer Science Roadmap
- 📄 Community-driven Roadmaps for Developers
Falsehoods
- Awesome Falsehoods 💊 Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in. Check for things you do not know about Strings, Addresses, Names, Numbers, Emails, Timezones and Dates and more.
Algorithms
- Big O Cheatsheet
- 📖 Computer Science Distilled
- 📖 Grokking Algorithms
- 📖 Introduction to Algorithms
- Algorithms Visualization
- Algorithms for Competitive Programming
Data Structures
- 📖 Hello Algo
- 🎥 UC Berkeley, Data Structures Course
- Foundations of Data Structures - EDX
- Data Structures - Coursera
- Mathematics for Computer Science - Eric Lehman
Numbers
- 📖 How to Count
- 📄 Floating Point Guide
- 📄 What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
- 📄 Basic Number Theory Every Programmer Should Know...
Strings
Latency
Time
Memory
Distributed Systems
- 📖 Understanding Distributed Systems
- 📖 Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- 📜 Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems
- 📜 Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
- 📄 There is No Now
- 📄 Jepsen: how different databases behave under partition
- 📜 Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained
Machine Learning
RegExp
Security
- 📖 Security Programming
- 📄 Rolling Your Own Crypto
- 📄 Cryptographic Right Answers
- 📄 An Open Letter to Developers Everywhere (About Cryptography)
- 📖 Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
- 📄 OWASP Top 10 - The "gold standard" for web application vulnerabilities.
- 📄 Portswigger Academy - Practical Labs for learning about web application security.
- 📄 Web Application Exploits and Defenses
- 📄 Hashing, Encryption and Encoding
UX/Usability
SEO
Architecture
- 📜 A Field Guide to Boxology
- 📜 Out of the Tar Pit
- 📜 No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
- 🎥 Growing a Language
- 🎥 CQRS and Event Sourcing
- 📖 Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
- 🎥 Evolutionary Software Architectures
- System Design: A Primer
- 📄 How JavaScript works: part-1, 2, 3, 4
- 🎥 Entity-Component-System Architecture with Unity by example
Code Design
Engineering Philosophy
- 🎥 Category Theory in Life
- 🎥 Simple Made Easy
- 📄 Speed In Software Development
- 🎥 #NoEstimates
- 🎥 The Myth of the Genius Programmer
- 🎥 Making Badass Developers
- 📄 The Ten Rules of a Zen Programmer
- 📄 The mythical 10x programmer
- 📄 The Debugging Mindset
- 🎥 The Future of Programming
- 📄 The Good Software Development Manifesto
- 🎥 All the Little Things
- 📄 Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Practices
- 📖 Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- 📖 The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code
- 📖 Code Complete
- 📖 Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
- 📖 Test Driven Development: By Example
- ✅ Going To Production Checklist
- 📖 Release It!
- 📖 Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
- 📖 SICP: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- 📄 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Turtle
- 📜 Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know
- Learn X in Y Minutes Learn the basics of a language in a highly condensed way.
- Hyperpolyglot Compare commonly used features of more or less similar languages side-by-side. Helps you to jump Python<->Ruby, Ocaml<->Haskell, etc.
- 📄 Pomodoro for Programmers
- 📖 Site Reliability Engineering
Career
- 💰 Levels FYI
Salary stats for various tech companies. Better than Glassdoor. - 📄 10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job
- 📄 How Much Do Software Engineers Really Make in Each City?
- 📄 Software Engineers Tenure in San Francisco
- Software Engineering 101
- 📖 The Passionate Programmer
- 📖 Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual
- 📖 The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
- 📖 Programming Beyond Practices: Be More Than Just a Code Monkey
- A list of European Investors
- 📄 Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
- 📄 How To Interview As a Developer Candidate
- 📄 How To Get a Tech Job Abroad Faster
- 📖 How To Be A STAR Engineer
- 📈 TL;DR; Stock Options
- 📄 The Open Guide to Equity Compensation
- 📄 Equity 101 for Startup Employees
- 📖 Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
- 🔥 Everything you need to know to get the job
- 📖 Tech Interview Handbook
- 📄 Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
- 📄 What you should know as a founder of a software company
- 🎥 Code Interview Prep & Programming Questions | Pramp
- 📖 97 things every programmer should know
- 🎥 A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
Fine-tune Your Resume
Open Source
Remote Work
- 🌐 Remotive.io: Startups hiring remotely
- 🌐 Remote Work List for Developers
- ⚡ NomadList
- 📖 The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work
- 🏠 Awesome Remote Job
Problem Solving
Soft Skills
Mental Health
- Awesome Mental Health
A curated list of awesome articles, websites and resources about mental health in the software industry.
Papers on Programming
- ❤️ Papers We Love
- 📰 The Morning Paper
- 📜 What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
- 📜 Go To Statement Considered Harmful
- 📰 Arxiv
- 📰 Sci-hub
Free Books on Programming
Services ⚡
- 🤖 Abstract API's
- Free For Dev
- Public APIs
- The Noun Project
- Without Coding
- Simpleicons
- Learn Anything
- repl.it
Licenses
- Choose An Open Source License
- Well-explained Software licenses in TLDR version
- How open source licenses work and how to add them to your projects
Where To Look For Further Info
Coding Practice Sites ⚡
- 🔗 CodeForces
- 🔗 CodeChef
- 🔗 Coderbyte
- 🔗 CodinGame
- 🔗 Cs Academy
- 🔗 HackerRank
- 🔗 Spoj
- 🔗 HackerEarth
- 🔗 TopCoder
- 🔗 Codewars
- 🔗 Exercism
- 🔗 CodeSignal
- 🔗 Project Euler
- 🔗 LeetCode
- 🔗 Firecode.io
- 🔗 InterviewBit
- 🔗 uCoder
- 🔗 LintCode
- 🔗 CodeCombat
- 🔗 InterviewCake
- 🔗 At Coder
- 🔗 Codility
- 🔗 ICPC Problem Archive
- 🔗 Codemia
- 🔗 LabEx
- 🔗 Codebattle
Learning through entertainment:
Platform Engineering
A modern discipline that evolved from DevOps and SRE principles, focused on improving developer experience and productivity by building and managing self-service tools and workflows, often through an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). The goal is to reduce cognitive load on developers and streamline the path to production.
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What is Platform Engineering?
- Microsoft Learn: What is platform engineering?
A comprehensive overview of the practice, its goals, and core capabilities. - Atlassian: What is Platform Engineering?
A great explanation of the roles and responsibilities of a platform team.
- Microsoft Learn: What is platform engineering?
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Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
- internaldeveloperplatform.org: What is an IDP?
A foundational resource explaining the concept of an IDP as the core product of a platform team. - Atlassian: Internal Developer Platform Guide
A deep dive into the benefits and best practices for building an IDP.
- internaldeveloperplatform.org: What is an IDP?
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Golden Paths (Paved Roads)
- Spotify Engineering: How we use Golden Paths to solve fragmentation
The original concept from Spotify, explaining how they use "opinionated and supported paths" to guide developers. - Red Hat: What is a Golden Path for software development?
- A clear article on how Golden Paths provide templates and standardized workflows to increase efficiency.
- Spotify Engineering: How we use Golden Paths to solve fragmentation