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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!

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

RegExp

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
📈 TL;DR; Stock Options
- Discussion on HN #1
- Discussion on HN #2
📄 The Open Guide to Equity Compensation
: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:

Licenses

Where To Look For Further Info

Learning through entertainment:

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.

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Introduction

Falsehoods

Algorithms

Data Structures

Numbers

Strings

Latency

Time

Memory

Distributed Systems

Machine Learning