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

• 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 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!

• 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