Programming

Resources

Articles

• 101 Tips For Being A Great Programmer (& Human) - Emma Bostian

• 20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Justin Etheredge

• 20,000 hours as a Software Engineer - Rui Peres

• A list of programming playgrounds - Julia Evans

• An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding - Camille Fournier

• Become a Good Programmer in Six Really Hard Steps - Mike Lewis

• Building a CHIP-8 Emulator [C++] - Austin Morlan

• Contributing to Complex Projects - Mitchell Hashimoto

• Design Docs at Google - Malte Ubl

• Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? - Julia Evans, Kamal Marhubi

• Essays on programming I think about a lot - Ben Kuhn

• Exposing Floating Point - Bartosz Ciechanowski

• Fantastic Learning Resources - Alex Kladov

• Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor - Casey Primozic

• For your next side project, make a browser extension - Geoffrey Litt

• Fundamentals - Mark Seemann

• Generating sudokus for fun and no profit - Tom Nick

• Hello, PNG! - David Buchanan

• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way - Eric Steven Raymond

• How to debug - Phil Booth

• How to fix a bug in an open-source project - Nolan Lawson

• How Wine works 101 - Andy Hippo

• I'm an Impostor - David Walsh

• It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code - qntm

• Mastering Programming - Kent Beck

• My Software Estimation Technique - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

• On Good Software Engineers - Candost Dagdeviren

• On Pair Programming - Birgitta Böckeler, Nina Siessegger

• Pair Programming Guide - Tuple

• Patterns in confusing explanations - Julia Evans

• Programmer Competency Matrix - Sijin Joseph

• Programmer Imposter Syndrome: 6 Ways to Get Over Yours - Ethan Urie

• Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code - Retro Game Coders (Hacker News)

• Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited - Oleksii Holub

• QR codes - Dan Hollick

• Reading QR codes without a computer! - blinry

• Software Development Then and Now: Steep Decline Into Mediocrity - Christopher Fox

• Software Engineering - The Soft Parts - Addy Osmani

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) - Nikita Prokopov

• The biggest-ever global outage: lessons for software engineers - Gergely Orosz

• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel Spolsky

• Things Every Hacker Once Knew - Eric Steven Raymond

• Things I've learned as a Senior Engineer

• Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering - Vadim Kravcenko

• What a good debugger can do - Andy Hippo

• What every computer science major should know - Matt Might

• What I learned from Software Engineering at Google - Swizec Teller

• What's the toughest bug you ever found and fixed?

• Why you should learn brainf*ck (or: learn you a brainf*ck for great good!) - Nick Morgan

• Write Code Every Day - John Resig

Blogs

• Amos Wenger
• Dan Luu
• Eli Bendersky
• Fabien Sanglard
• Fabrice Bellard
• Jeff Atwood
• Jess Frazelle
• Julia Evans
• Lambros Petrou

  • Read-Watch-Listen
• Martin Kleppmann
• Matthieu Cneude
• Patrick McKenzie
• Rachel Kroll

Books

• Build Your Own X From Scratch - James Smith

  • Build Your Own Database From Scratch
  • Build Your Own Redis with C/C++
  • From Source Code To Machine Code - Build Your Own Compiler From Scratch
• Crafting Interpreters - Bob Nystrom
• Hacker News Book Map
• How To Be A Programmer - Robert R. Lead
• How To Design Programs - Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams - Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

  • Notes by Keyvan Akbary
• Program = Proof - Samuel Mimram
• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation - Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University
• Software Engineering at Google - Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
• Static Program Analysis - Anders Møller and Michael I. Schwartzbach, Aarhus University
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman (first edition here)

  • JavaScript edition
  • SICP in Python
  • YouTube playlist with lectures
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• The Art of HPC - Victor Eijkhout, Texas Advanced Computing Center
• Usborne 1980s Computer Books

Cheat Sheets

• Devhints
• DZone Refcardz
• Hyperpolyglot
• Learn X in Y Minutes

Code Editors

• Cursor
• Huly Code
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Notepad++
• Sublime Text
• Visual Studio Code
• Windsurf
• Zed

GitHub Repositories

• Advent Calendars for Developers
• Amazing Developer On YouTube
• Cognitive Load is what matters
• Data-Oriented Design
• Debugging Stories - Dan Luu
• Developer Newsletters
• Every Programmer Should Know
• freeCodeCamp
• Hacker Laws
• Influential CS Books
• Low-Level Programming University
• Professional Programming
• Programming Best Practices In 2024
• Software Engineering Blogs
• Software Papers
• The Art of Debugging
• The Book of Secret Knowledge
• Today I Learned - Josh Branchaud
• Winamp

Hacker News Threads

• Books That Dramatically Transformed Your Programming Skills
• Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?
• How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024?
• How to find time to learn after full-time job?
• Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
• Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?
• Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
• Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
• Reading material on how to be a better software engineer?
• Those making $0/month or less on side projects
• What are some of the best well-written books on computer science?
• What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
• What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?
• What is the best code base you ever worked on?
• What open source projects need help?
• What side projects landed you a job?
• What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?
• What's the best source code you've read?
• What's your proudest hack?
• Who else is working on nothing?

Ideas for projects

• Books like “Crafting interpreters” or “The ray tracer challenge”?
• Books that teach you programming languages via systems projects?
• Build your own SQLite - Geoffrey Copin

  • Part 1: Listing tables
  • Part 2: Scanning large tables
  • Part 3: SQL parsing 101
  • Part 4: reading tables metadata
  • Part 5: Evaluating queries
• Build Your Own X - Daniel Stefanovic
• Challenging projects every programmer should try - Austin Z. Henley (Hacker News, Reddit)
• Coding Challenges (Shared Solutions)
• Coding projects for software developers: Let’s get some hands-on practice - Shivang Sarawagi

  • Part 1
• Every time you build a to-do list app, a puppy dies - Hrishi Mittal
• "I Need Practice Programming": 49 Ideas for Game Clones to Code - Al Sweigart
• Idea List - Ishan Shah
• Kindling projects - Ned Batchelder
• Mega Project List - Karan Goel
• More challenging projects every programmer should try - Austin Z. Henley (Hacker News)
• My list of challenging software projects some programmers should try - Andrei Ciobanu
• Project Based Learning - Tu V. Tran
• Projectbook - Brett Chalupa
• Protohackers
• What To Code - Joe Reynolds

Images

Lobsters threads

• What software do you dream about, but do not have time to code yourself?

Online IDEs

• glot.io
• myCompiler
• OneCompiler
• RunCode.io
• TryAPL

Open Source

• First Contributions
• Up For Grabs

Programming Puzzles

• Advent of Code

  • 450 Stars: A Categorization and Mega-Guide
  • HyperNeutrino
  • What concepts are generally required to be able to solve all AoC tasks?
• Everybody Codes
• Project Euler

Reddit subreddits

• r/ExperiencedDevs

Reddit threads

• The best dev you’ve ever worked with - what made them so great?

Videos

• A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
• "Am I Senior Yet?" - Katlyn Parvin, RubyConf 2016

  • Notes by Keyvan Akbary
• Inventing On Principle - Bret Victor
• Rethinking the Developer Career Path – Randall Koutnik

  • Notes by Keyvan Akbary

Websites

• 30 Seconds Of Code
• Analysis Tools and Linters (GitHub)
• Boot.dev - Learn Backend Development The Smart Way
• Code Cartoons
• Code Catalog - A collection of code examples from prominent open-source projects
• Coder's Cat
• Denigma - AI that reads and explains code in understandable English
• Develop For Performance
• Developer Roadmaps
• DevFreeBooks
• DEV Community
• Dev Tips - Umar Hansa
• Execute Program - Gary Bernhardt
• Free for developers
• Free Programming Books
• GoalKicker.com - Free Programming Books
• JetBrains Academy
• Lagout.org - Programming books
• Literate Programming
• Monorepo Explained
• OverAPI.com - Collecting All Cheat Sheets
• Paged Out!
• Pocket Flow - Turns Codebase into Easy Tutorial (GitHub)
• ProgrammerHumor
• Programming Idioms
• punks.org - Games and puzzles to teach children programming
• Radical Simplicity in Technology
• Software Engineering Books
• Software Folklore
• Speaking for Hackers - Ben Orenstein
• Stack Overflow
• StackShare
• StaffEng
• What does this code do?

YouTube Channels

• TIna Huang