Every Programmer Should Know 🤔

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 💣. Not backed by science.
Comes in no particular order ♻️

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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! 💪

P.P.S. Contributions are welcomed!

Introduction

• 🎥 Map of Computer Science
• 🎥 40 Key Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman’s Terms

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
• 📖 Grokking Algorithms
• Algorithms Visualization

Data Structures

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

Numbers

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

Strings

• 📄 Unicode and Character Sets
• Homoglyphs
• Unicode Common Locale Data Repository

Latency

• Interactive Latency Infographics
• 📄 Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

Time

• 📄 Some notes about time

Memory

• 📄 What every Programmer should know about memory

Distributed Systems

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

RegExp

• RegexHQ
• Learn regex the easy way

Security

• 📖 Security Programming
• 📄 Rolling Your Own Crypto
• 📖 Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
• OWASP Top 10
• Web Application Exploits and Defenses

SEO

• 📄 What Every Programmer Should Know About SEO

Architecture

• 📜 A Field Guide to Boxology
• 📜 Out of the Tar Pit
• 📜 No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
• 🎥 Growing a Language
• 🎥 CQRS and Event Sourcing
• 📖 Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
• 🎥 Evolutionary Software Architectures
• System Design: A Primer

Practices

• 📖 Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• 📖 Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• 📖 Test Driven Development: By Example
• ✅ Going To Production Checklist
• 📖 Release It!
• 📖 Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
• 📖 SICP: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• 📄 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Turtle
• 📜 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.
• 📄 Pomodoro for Programmers

Career

• 📄 10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job
• 📄 How Much Do Software Engineers Really Make in Each City?
• 📄 Software Engineers Tenure in San Francisco
• Software Engineering 101
• 📖 The Passionate Programmer
• 📖 Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual
• 📖 The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
• 📖 Programming Beyond Practices: Be More Than Just a Code Monkey
• A list of European Investors
• 📄 Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
• 📄 How To Interview As a Developer Candidate
• 📖 How To Be A STAR Engineer
• 📄 TL;DR; Stock Options
• 📄 Equity 101 for Startup Employees
• 📖 Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
• 🔥 Everything you need to know to get the job
• 📖 Tech Interview Handbook
• 📄 Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

UX/Usability

• 📖 Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Remote Work

• 🌐 Remote Work List for Developers
• ⚡ NomadList
• 📖 The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work
• 🏠 Awesome Remote Job

Engineering Philosophy

• 🎥 Simple Made Easy
• 📄 Speed In Software Development
• 🎥 The Myth of the Genius Programmer
• 🎥 Making Badass Developers
• 📄 The Ten Rules of a Zen Programmer
• 📄 The mythical 10x programmer
• 📄 The Debugging Mindset

Soft Skills

• 📖 Difficult Conversations
• 📖 Crucial Conversations
• 📖 How to Win Friends and Influence People

Papers on Programming

• ❤️ Papers We Love
• 📰 The Morning Paper
• 📜 What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory

Free Books on Programming

• 📚 Free Programming Books

Services ⚡

• Free For Dev
• Public APIs
• The Noun Project
• Without Coding
• Simpleicons
• Learn Anything

Licenses

• Choose An Open Source License
• Well-explained Software licenses in TLDR version

Where To Look For Further Info

• freeCodeCamp Guide
• GeeksForGeeks
• Dev.To
• Stackoverflow

Coding Practice Sites ⚡

• 🔗 CodeForces
• 🔗 CodeChef
• 🔗 CodinGame
• 🔗 Cs Academy
• 🔗 HackerRank
• 🔗 Spoj
• 🔗 HackerEarth
• 🔗 TopCoder
• 🔗 Codewars
• 🔗 Exercism
• 🔗 CodeFights
• 🔗 Project Euler
• 🔗 LeetCode
• 🔗 InterviewBit