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Every Programmer Should Know :thinking:

A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know.

:point_up: These are resources I can recommend to every programmer regardless of their skill level or tech stack

Highly opinionated :bomb:. Not backed by science. Comes in no particular order :recycle:

U like it? :star: it and share with a friendly developer! U don't like it? Watch the doggo :dog:

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! :muscle:

P.P.S. Contributions are welcome!

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Introduction

• :movie_camera: Map of Computer Science
• :movie_camera: 40 Key Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman’s Terms
• :page_facing_up: Computer Science Roadmap

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
• :book: Computer Science Distilled
• :book: Grokking Algorithms
• :book: Introduction to Algorithms
• Algorithms Visualization
• Algorithms for Competitive Programming

Data Structures

• :movie_camera: UC Berkeley, Data Structures Course
• Foundations of Data Structures - EDX
• Data Structures - Coursera
• Mathematics for Computer Science - Eric Lehman

Numbers

• :book: How to Count
• :page_facing_up: Floating Point Guide
• :page_facing_up: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
• :page_facing_up: Basic Number Theory Every Programmer Should Know...

Strings

• :page_facing_up: Unicode and Character Sets
• Homoglyphs
• Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
• :movie_camera: ASCII
• :movie_camera: UTF-8

Latency

• Interactive Latency Infographics
• :page_facing_up: Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

Time

• :page_facing_up: Some notes about time
• :movie_camera: The Problem with Timezones

Memory

• :page_facing_up: What every Programmer should know about memory

Distributed Systems

• :book: Understanding Distributed Systems
• :book: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• :scroll: Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems
• :scroll: Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
• :page_facing_up: There is No Now
• :page_facing_up: Jepsen: how different databases behave under partition
• :scroll: Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained

RegExp

• RegexHQ
• Learn regex the easy way

Security

• :book: Security Programming
• :page_facing_up: Rolling Your Own Crypto
• :page_facing_up: Cryptographic Right Answers
• :page_facing_up: An Open Letter to Developers Everywhere (About Cryptography)
• :book: Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
• :page_facing_up: OWASP Top 10 - The "gold standard" for web application vulnerabilities.
• :page_facing_up: Portswigger Academy - Practical Labs for learning about web application security.
• :page_facing_up: Web Application Exploits and Defenses
• :page_facing_up: Hashing, Encryption and Encoding

UX/Usability

• :book: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• :movie_camera: Inventing on Principle

SEO

• :page_facing_up: What Every Programmer Should Know About SEO

Architecture

• :scroll: A Field Guide to Boxology
• :scroll: Out of the Tar Pit
• :scroll: No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
• :movie_camera: Growing a Language
• :movie_camera: CQRS and Event Sourcing
• :book: Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
• :movie_camera: Evolutionary Software Architectures
• System Design: A Primer
• :page_facing_up: How JavaScript works: part-1, 2, 3, 4
• :movie_camera: Entity-Component-System Architecture with Unity by example

Code Design

• :page_facing_up: Programming Principles Wiki

Engineering Philosophy

• :movie_camera: Category Theory in Life
• :movie_camera: Simple Made Easy
• :page_facing_up: Speed In Software Development
• :movie_camera: #NoEstimates
• :movie_camera: The Myth of the Genius Programmer
• :movie_camera: Making Badass Developers
• :page_facing_up: The Ten Rules of a Zen Programmer
• :page_facing_up: The mythical 10x programmer
• :page_facing_up: The Debugging Mindset
• :movie_camera: The Future of Programming
• :page_facing_up: The Good Software Development Manifesto
• :movie_camera: All the Little Things
• :page_facing_up: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Practices

• :book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• :book: The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code
• :book: Code Complete
• :book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• :book: Test Driven Development: By Example
• :white_check_mark: Going To Production Checklist
• :book: Release It!
• :book: Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
• :book: SICP: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• :page_facing_up: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Turtle
• :scroll: 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.
• :page_facing_up: Pomodoro for Programmers
• :book: Site Reliability Engineering

Career

• :moneybag: Levels FYI
  Salary stats for various tech companies. Better than Glassdoor.
• :page_facing_up: 10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job
• :page_facing_up: How Much Do Software Engineers Really Make in Each City?
• :page_facing_up: Software Engineers Tenure in San Francisco
• Software Engineering 101
• :book: The Passionate Programmer
• :book: Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual
• :book: The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
• :book: Programming Beyond Practices: Be More Than Just a Code Monkey
• A list of European Investors
• :page_facing_up: Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
• :page_facing_up: How To Interview As a Developer Candidate
• :page_facing_up: How To Get a Tech Job Abroad Faster
• :book: How To Be A STAR Engineer
• :page_facing_up: TL;DR; Stock Options
• :page_facing_up: Equity 101 for Startup Employees
• :book: Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
• :fire: Everything you need to know to get the job
• :book: Tech Interview Handbook
• :page_facing_up: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
• :page_facing_up: What you should know as a founder of a software company
• :movie_camera: Code Interview Prep & Programming Questions | Pramp
• :book: 97 things every programmer should know
• :movie_camera: A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google

Fine-tune Your Resume

• :hammer: CV Compiler

Open Source

• :globe_with_meridians: Learn how to use Git and GitHub

Remote Work

• :globe_with_meridians: Remotive.io: Startups hiring remotely
• :globe_with_meridians: Remote Work List for Developers
• :zap: NomadList
• :book: The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work
• :house: Awesome Remote Job

Problem Solving

• :book: The Art and Craft of Problem Solving
• :book: How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

Soft Skills

• :book: Difficult Conversations
• :book: Crucial Conversations
• :book: 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

• :heart: Papers We Love
• :newspaper: The Morning Paper
• 📜 What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
• 📜 Go To Statement Considered Harmful
• :newspaper: Arxiv
• :newspaper: Sci-hub

Free Books on Programming

• :books: Free Programming Books

Services :zap:

• 🤖 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

• freeCodeCamp Guide
• GeeksForGeeks
• Dev.To
• Stack Overflow
• Dzone

Coding Practice Sites :zap:

• :link: CodeForces
• :link: CodeChef
• :link: Coderbyte
• :link: CodinGame
• :link: Cs Academy
• :link: HackerRank
• :link: Spoj
• :link: HackerEarth
• :link: TopCoder
• :link: Codewars
• :link: Exercism
• :link: CodeSignal
• :link: Project Euler
• :link: LeetCode
• :link: Firecode.io
• :link: InterviewBit
• :link: uCoder
• :link: LintCode
• :link: CodeCombat
• :link: InterviewCake
• :link: At Coder
• :link: Codility
• :link: ICPC Problem Archive
• :link: Codemia
• :link: LabEx
• :link: Codebattle

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.