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Every Programmer Should Know π€
A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know.
βοΈ These are resources I can recommend to every programmer regardless of their skill level or tech stack
Highly opinionated π£. Not backed by science. Comes in no particular order β»οΈ
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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! πͺ
P.P.S. Contributions are welcome!
Introduction
- π₯ Map of Computer Science
- π₯ 40 Key Computer Science Concepts Explained In Laymanβs Terms
- π Computer Science Roadmap
Falsehoods
- Awesome Falsehoods π 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
- π Computer Science Distilled
- π Grokking Algorithms
- π Introduction to Algorithms
- Algorithms Visualization
- Algorithms for Competitive Programming
Data Structures
- π₯ UC Berkeley, Data Structures Course
- Foundations of Data Structures - EDX
- Data Structures - Coursera
- Mathematics for Computer Science - Eric Lehman
Numbers
- π How to Count
- π Floating Point Guide
- π What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
- π Basic Number Theory Every Programmer Should Know...
Strings
- π Unicode and Character Sets
- Homoglyphs
- Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
- π₯ ASCII
- π₯ UTF-8
Latency
Time
Memory
Distributed Systems
- π Understanding Distributed Systems
- π Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- π Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems
- π Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
- π There is No Now
- π Jepsen: how different databases behave under partition
- π Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained
RegExp
Security
- π Security Programming
- π Rolling Your Own Crypto
- π Cryptographic Right Answers
- π An Open Letter to Developers Everywhere (About Cryptography)
- π Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
- OWASP Top 10
- Web Application Exploits and Defenses
- π Hashing, Encryption and Encoding
UX/Usability
SEO
Architecture
- π A Field Guide to Boxology
- π Out of the Tar Pit
- π No Silver Bullet β Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
- π₯ Growing a Language
- π₯ CQRS and Event Sourcing
- π Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
- π₯ Evolutionary Software Architectures
- System Design: A Primer
- π How JavaScript works: part-1, 2, 3, 4
- π₯ Entity-Component-System Architecture with Unity by example
Code Design
Engineering Philosophy
- π₯ Category Theory in Life
- π₯ Simple Made Easy
- π Speed In Software Development
- π₯ #NoEstimates
- π₯ The Myth of the Genius Programmer
- π₯ Making Badass Developers
- π The Ten Rules of a Zen Programmer
- π The mythical 10x programmer
- π The Debugging Mindset
- π₯ The Future of Programming
- π The Good Software Development Manifesto
- π₯ All the Little Things
- π Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Practices
- π Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- π The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code
- π Code Complete
- π Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
- π Test Driven Development: By Example
- β Going To Production Checklist
- π Release It!
- π Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
- π SICP: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- π Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Turtle
- π 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.
- π Pomodoro for Programmers
- π Site Reliability Engineering
Career
- π° Levels FYI
Salary stats for various tech companies. Better than Glassdoor. - π 10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job
- π How Much Do Software Engineers Really Make in Each City?
- π Software Engineers Tenure in San Francisco
- Software Engineering 101
- π The Passionate Programmer
- π Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual
- π The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
- π Programming Beyond Practices: Be More Than Just a Code Monkey
- A list of European Investors
- π Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
- π How To Interview As a Developer Candidate
- π How To Get a Tech Job Abroad Faster
- π How To Be A STAR Engineer
- π TL;DR; Stock Options
- π Equity 101 for Startup Employees
- π Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
- π₯ Everything you need to know to get the job
- π Tech Interview Handbook
- π Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
- π What you should know as a founder of a software company
- π₯ Code Interview Prep & Programming Questions | Pramp
- π 97 things every programmer should know
- π₯ A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
Fine-tune Your Resume
- π¨ CV Compiler
Open Source
Remote Work
- π Remotive.io: Startups hiring remotely
- π Remote Work List for Developers
- β‘ NomadList
- π The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work
- π Awesome Remote Job
Problem Solving
Soft Skills
- π Difficult Conversations
- π Crucial Conversations
- π How to Win Friends and Influence People
Mental Health
- Awesome Mental Health
A curated list of awesome articles, websites and resources about mental health in the software industry.
Papers on Programming
- β€οΈ Papers We Love
- π° The Morning Paper
- π What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
- π Go To Statement Considered Harmful
- π° Arxiv
- π° Sci-hub
Free Books on Programming
Services β‘
- π€ 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 β‘
- π CodeForces
- π CodeChef
- π Coderbyte
- π CodinGame
- π Cs Academy
- π HackerRank
- π Spoj
- π HackerEarth
- π TopCoder
- π Codewars
- π Exercism
- π CodeSignal
- π Project Euler
- π LeetCode
- π Firecode.io
- π InterviewBit
- π uCoder
- π LintCode
- π CodeCombat
- π InterviewCake
- π At Coder
- π Codility
- π ICPC Problem Archive
- π Codemia