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Every Programmer Should Know :thinking:

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

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

Data Structures

• 📖 Hello Algo
• :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

Machine Learning

• :school: Andrew NG Machine Learning Specification Class

RegExp

• :link: RegexHQ
• :link: Learn regex the easy way
• :link: Regex Crossword

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
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