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Some useful websites for programmers.
https://github.com/sdmg15/Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit

When learning CS there are some useful sites you must know to get always informed in order to do your technologies eve and learn new things. Here is a non exhaustive list of some sites you should visit, this list will get updated as soon as I can get another link, but you can also contribute by adding those you know :wink:

Index

• When you get stuck
• News
• Coding practice for beginners
• For those who want to start a small project but cant find the ideas
• General Coding advice
• Coding Style
• General Tools
• Interview Preparation
• Documentaries
• MOOCs for learning something new
• Sites related to your preferred programming language (For me Java)
• Learn AI
• Seminar , research writing , talks etc
• Everything in one place
• YouTube Channels
• Good Articles
• Building a Simple Compiler/interpreter
• Watch others code
• What should a programmer know
• Competitive programming
• Computer Books
• Video Tutorials
• Online Compiler and Sharing Code snippets
• Blogs of Developers
• For improving your English
• When you get bored from CS related stuff

When you get stuck

• Stack Overflow : subscribe to their weekly newsletter and any other topic which you find interesting
• Quora : A place to share knowledge and better understand the world:
• Learn Anything : Community curated knowledge graph of best paths for learning anything

News

• Hacker News : news aggregator for programmers where civility is king, try a newsletter to get top news to your inbox:
• Hacker Newsletter : curated by hand, delivered weekly
• Hacker News Digest : curated automatically, delivered as frequently as you want
• Ars Technica : posts unique quality articles
• ACM TechNews
• Lobsters : Lobsters is a technology-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion.
• TechCrunch : another good website for tech news
• GSMArena.com : news related to latest mobile phones and android.
• product hunt : Discover your next favorite thing
• AlternativeTo : Crowdsourced software recommendations
• Better Dev Links : Weekly links to help you become a better developer

Coding practice for beginners

• freeCodeCamp : Learn to code and build projects for nonprofits. Build your full stack web development portfolio today
• Reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer : interesting programming challenges where you can learn from looking at other’s code , even if you are not able to solve code you can look at how others solved.
• Programming by Doing : very good site for those who want to start with absolute basics
• CodeAbbey - a place where everyone can master programming : Best place to begin with problems that start at the easiest and gradually increase difficulty with each problem.
• Exercism.io : download and solve practice problems in over 30 different languages, and share your solution with others.
• Programming Tasks : large collection of small programs
• karan/Projects-Solutions Solutions to most of the problems in the link above
• Lod - Cloud : The Linking Open Data cloud diagram
• Cave of programming : Learn to program, Upgrade your skills.
• Codeacademy : Learn to code interactively, for free.

For those who want to start a small project but can’t find the ideas

• martyr2s-mega-project-ideas-list : contains about 125 project ideas from beginner to intermediate level.
• karan/Projects : a large collection of small projects for beginners with
• Wrong “big projects” for beginners : How to choose where to start
• vicky002/1000-Projects : Mega List of practical projects that one can solve in any programming language!

General Coding advice

• Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code — Free Code Camp
• Lessons From A Lifetime Of Being A Programmer
• Principles of Good Programming
• What every computer science major should know
• How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well
• Code Review Best Practices
• Dieter Rams : 10 Principles of Good Product Design
• 10-ways-to-be-a-better-developer
• Working as a Software Developer
• Software design pattern : The entire collection of Design Patterns.
• Design Patterns : Design Patterns explained in detail with examples.

Coding Style

• CS 106B Coding Style Guide : must see for those who create spaghetti
• Google C++ Style Guide
• Airbnb JS Style Guide : A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript
• What are some bad coding habits you would recommend a beginner avoid getting into?
• Good C programming habits. • /r/C_Programming
• How to Report Bugs Effectively
• Debugging Faqs
• Stuff you need to Code Better!
• Directory of Online CS Courses
• Directory of CS Courses (many with online lectures)
• Angular 1 Style Guide : Officially endorsed style guide by John Pappa

General Tools

Interview Preparation

• GeeksforGeeks | A computer science portal for geeks : also subscribe to their feeds to get links to their new articles.
• A site for technical interview questions, brain teasers, puzzles, quizzles : whatever the heck those are) and other things that make you think!
• Problems | LeetCode OJ : Coding practice for interviews
• Programmer And Software Interview Questions Answers
• Reddit.com/user/ashish2199/m/puzzles : Logic Puzzles
• A Collection of Quant Riddles With Answers
• Aptitude Questions and Answers : Quant and aptitude preparation
• Interview Archives - Java Honk
• Top 10 Algorithms for Coding Interview
• Algorithm design canvas)
• Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet
• Unix / Linux Cheat Sheet
• How to interview
• How to Ace an Algorithms Interview
• Delightful Puzzles
• visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
• Here’s How to Prepare for Tech Interviews • /r/cscareerquestions
• Guide to Tech Interviews
• Why You Make Less Money • /r/cscareerquestions
• IIT Delhi Placement Experience
• what_are_your_goto_questions_for_the_do_you_have?
• /r/cscareerquestions : Here’s a pretty big list of programming interview questions I compiled while studying for big 4 interviews. I think you guys will find it useful! •
• Interviewing At Jane Street
• How to prepare for an interview - 1
• Summer Internship: The Ultimate Guide
• The 25 most difficult HR questions
• Job interviews News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker
• How to Answer the Toughest 40 Job Interview Questions | ICS Job Portal
• Job Interview Questions and Best Answers
• How to Answer “Tell Me a Little About Yourself” | The Art of Manliness
• Job Interview: How to Ace a Job Interview | The Art of Manliness
• Give your résumé a face lift
• BIG O Misconceptions
• Bitwise tricks
• Core Java Interview questions - Interview question on each topic
• Java Interview Questions and Answers
• Big collection of interview preparation links • /r/cscareerquestions
• Unsolicited_advice_for_job_seekers_and_employers
• five-essential-phone-screen-questions - steveyegge2
• CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview
• Mission-peace/interview problems : A large collection of coding interview problems
• SQL Joins explained using venn diagram
• 10 Frequently asked SQL Query Interview Questions
• Get Ready to Learn SQL: 8. Database Normalization Explained in Simple English - Essential SQL
• Programming Language Concepts: Lecture Notes : OOPs concepts and programming language concepts.
• We Help Coders Get Hired : website offering courses on system design, interview strategies, soft skills etc
• checkcheckzz/system-design-interview
• How to Break Into the Tech Industry - a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews
• Freshers Interviews
• C PUZZLES, Some interesting C problems
• A site for technical interview questions, brain teasers, puzzles, quizzles (whatever the heck those are) and other things that make you think!
• wu :: riddles(hard) : logic puzzles and riddles
• https://github.com/odino/interviews : list of important questions for interview
• svozniuk/java-interviews : Java interview questions
• kimberli/interviews : study sheet for Interview
• Determining the big-O runtimes of these different loops? : really good stackoverflow question that covers basics of calculating runtime complexity.
• ChiperSoft/InterviewThis : questions to ask during on a interview to know more about the company.
• SQL interview questions : great SQL test

Documentaries

• Machine that Changed the World - a very good documentary about history of computers
  
  • Part 1: Giant Brains
  • Part 2: Inventing the Future
  • Part 3: The Paperback Computer
  • Part 4: The Thinking Machine
  • Part 5: The World at Your Fingertips
• Triumph of the Nerds : Play-list
• Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
• The Code: Story of Linux documentary
• Breaking the Code: Biography of Alan Turing
• Mechanical Computer (All Parts) : a very good video from 1950s explaining how mechanical computers used to work without all the modern day electronics.
• Download: The True Story of the Internet : Play-list of discovery channel documentary on browser wars , dot com bubble and more.
• Teach Yourself Computer Science
• How does CPU execute program (video)
• Machine Code Instructions (video)
• Harvard CS50 - Asymptotic Notation (video)
• Cracking The Code Interview
• Cracking the Coding Interview - Fullstack Speaker Series
• Ask Me Anything: Gayle Laakmann McDowell (author of Cracking the Coding Interview)

MOOCs for learning something new

• Class Central : a directory of 100,000+ student reviews of thousands of MOOCs.
• NPTEL Vidoes COMP_SCI_ENGG
• Coursera.org
• edX
• MOOC.fi : Free online courses from the University of Helsinki
• Udacity
• Kadenze | Creative Programming: Programming courses focused on art and creativity
• UCBerkeley
• MIT OCW Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• CS50
• prakhar1989/awesome-CS-courses : List containing large amount of CS courses
• Computer Science Resources : list of MOOCs for autodidacts
• https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/README.md : collection of CS courses on Internet

Sites related to your preferred programming language (For me Java)

• Java Revisited : good for learning about Java Language and interview preparation.
• The Java™ Tutorials : The best tutorials for Java.
• Java Corner at Artima.com
• Java Visualizer : helps visualize references , values of variables ect
• Java Lecture Notes
• Learning Java : a free online textbook for learning Java
• Free Online Chapters of Inside the Java Virtual Machine by Bill Venners
• Understanding JVM Internals
• How Garbage Collection Works
• Welcome to JavaWorld.com
• The Java Memory Model
• Netbeans Keyboard Shortcuts : Keyboard shortcuts to enhance your productivity when working in Netbeans.
• XyzWs Java FAQs : large collection of java interview questions
• Search Open Source Java API : view source of java library and learn how things are implemented.
• JournalDev - Java, Java EE, Android, Web Development Tutorials
• Implementation of Algorithms and Data Structures, Interview Questions and Answers
• what-is-garbage-collection : Demystify the garbage collection
• Best books for learning java must read : Get basics of Java
• Garbage collection (Java); Augmenting data str (video)
• Compilers (video)
• Deep Dive Java: Garbage Collection is Good!
• The C++ Programming Language : The C++ Programming Language.
• Bjarne Stroustrup’s FAQ : The C++ FAQ
• Bjarne Stroustrup’s C++ Style and Technique FAQ : The C++ FAQ
• C++11 - the new ISO C++ standard : The C++11 FAQ

Learn AI

• Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron
• Robots that learn
• grakn.ai

Seminar , research writing , talks etc

• Advice on Research and Writing
• Seminar and reports
• PHD MS Articles
• Practical Tips for Talking at Usergroups and Conferences
• Giving presentation on software project to non-programmers

Everything in one place

• reddit.com/user/ashish2199/m/cs_student_subs : a multisubreddit of all subreddits of topics related to computer science and programming.

YouTube Channels

• Computerphile : Must watch for every CS student
• ComputerHistory : for those who like to know how we reached where we are.
• GoogleTechTalks : videos on trending topics and cool stuff happening in the tech industry.
• Placement Grid : Interview and campus placement experience
• Google Developers
• Facebook Developers
• O’Reilly : interviews and talks of world’s best technical writers.
• Java : talks related to java
• JavaOne : Java Conference
• CppCon : C++ Conference
• C++Now (BoostCon) : C++Now (previously BoostCon) conference
• Meeting C++ YT Kanalseite : Talks on C++
• ThinMatrix : blogs and tutorials developer making a 3d game in Java using opengl
• yegor256
• Scott Meyers: Past Talks
• thoughtbot : talks on various topics
• code::dive conference : code::dive conference organized by NOKIA Wrocław Technology Center
• HowToBecomeTV : contains good interviews of developers and people related to tech industry.
• ITCuties
• CodeBabes : For those who think CS lacks glamor :P
• Netflix UI Engineering : great videos to watch for web developers, mobile developers and those interested in some of Netflix’s tech stack
• Coding Blocks : Tutorials, how to’s, tips and tricks
• Fun Fun Function : A weekly series from Mattias Petter Johansson on an assortment of programming topics, including some not directly related to coding.

Good Articles

• Expectations of a Junior Developer
• The Key To Accelerating Your Coding Skills
• A Software Developer’s Reading List : Some good books and links in there.
• how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-interviews/
• 40 Keys Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman’s Terms
• What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1
• We are reinventing the retail industry through innovative technology
• Unicode
• What every programmer absolutely, positively needs to know about encodings and character sets to work with text
• List of algorithms
• Dive into the byte code
• What every computer science major should know
• Teach Yourself Computer Science
• Data Structure Map
• A Gentle Introduction To Graph Theory
• Linux Inside
• A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua.

Podcasts

• Coding Blocks - Learning principles, patterns and better practices on the go
• MS Dev Show
• The Cynical Developer
• Herding Code
• Code Newbie
• Software Engineering Radio
• JavaScript Jabber
• Developer Tea : A podcast for developers designed to fit inside your tea break.
• Software Engineering Daily : A daily technical interview about software topics

Building a Simple Compiler/interpreter

• Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
• :snowman: Possibly the smallest compiler ever
• Writing My First Compiler
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 1.
• Growing a compiler

Tutorials

• Subtle | Poor Man’s CI : Learn how continuous integration platforms work under the hood, by building one of your own on top of git with Node.js
• Tutorialspoint
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
• Open Data Structures : Excellent resource for learning about DS and algos , provides code in various languages C++ , Java , pseudocode
• Data Structures and Algorithms by John Morris : another good source with code and its analysis
• CMSI 281: Data Structures : light weight introduction to DS
• How to Program in C++ : Good resource for revising C++ topics and STL
• TopCoder Tutorials
• A Hacker’s Guide to Git : for those wanting to learn git with a solid foundation
• Git from the inside out
• Learn UNIX in 10 minutes
• The Bash Guide : very good guide for learning the Bash Shell
• Linux Tutorial : good resource for learning Linux
• UNIX Tutorial - Introduction
• Linux Tutorial for Beginners
• Learning the shell.
• Dynamic programming - PrismoSkills : very good resource if want to learn how to solve DP problems.
• Deep C : very good presentation on C language
• C programming language Frequently Asked Questions
• OS Course Notes : Chapter wise course notes according to Galvin’s book
• SQL (Structured Query Language) in one page : SQL.SU : a very good SQL cheat sheet
• Introduction to C Programming
• MySQL Essentials
• http://www.mysqltutorial.org/
• Best Of - Gustavo Duarte : contains articles on various topics
• Collecting all the cheat sheets : cheat sheets for lots of programming languages
• The Descent to C : for those moving to C from some higher programming language like java or python.
• VimTutor+ : learn VIM from browser itself
• HackerEarth Tutorials : Good resource for DS and Algos tutorial
• Linux Journey : good site for learning linux
• C Programming
• CS 2112/ENGRD 2112 Fall 2015 : Good notes on data structures and algorithms.
• More about Github-flavored markdown
• The Unix Programming Environment
• The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction
• TCP/IP Illustrated Series
• Head First Design Patterns
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software : aka the “Gang Of Four” book, or GOF
• UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition
• Programming, Web Development, and DevOps news, tutorials and tools for beginners to experts

Watch others code

• LiveEdu.tv : screencast of people building application, websites, games, ect.

What should a programmer know

• Programmer Competency Matrix : article for knowing what our level as a programmer is.
• GitHub.com Build software better, together : Place to showcase your project and collaborate with others. (Must know Git in order to use it effectively)
• Gitlab offers free unlimited (private) repositories and unlimited collaborators.

Competitive programming

• HackerRank
• Codeforces
• topcoder
• UVa Online Judge : hundreds of problems supporting multiple languages.
• HackerEarth - Programming challenges and Developer jobs
• CodeChef
• PKU ACM ICPC Practice problems
• Archived Problems - Project Euler
• Google Code Jam Practice and : past contest problems for practice
• Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ)
• Art of Problem Solving
• Riddles.io AI Games : Compete with your bot and dominate the leaderboards!
• Codingame : Learn coding through games and challenges!
• Codewars : Rank up by completing code kata

Computer Books

• IT eBooks - Free Download - Big Library : website for downloading ebooks without any advertisement and instant downloads.
• github.com/vhf/free-programming-books : More than 500 free ebooks on almost any language you can think of
• Computer Science Books Online : about 150 computer free ebooks
• Best books for GATE CSE
• https://cses.fi/book.html
• Library Genesis : Almost any ebook you can think of, including countless CS texts and manuals.

Video Tutorials

• Tushar Roy : Algorithm and Data structure tutorial by an Indian Youtuber.
• Derek Banas : good quality tutorials
• thenewboston : good but with too much talk as compared to actual content
• mycodeschool : Data structures and algorithms tutorials
• CodeGeek
• CodingMadeEasy : C++ tutorials
• XDA-University - Helping You Learn Android Development
• DevTips : web dev tutorials
• codedamn : front end web dev tutorials
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• Vim Tutorial Videos - Flarfnoogins : good video tutorial for learning vim
• CS1: Higher Computing - Richard Buckland UNSW : a very good introductory CS course
• Kathryn Hodge : Has good videos for beginners

Online Compiler and Sharing Code snippets

• CodePad : Code editor to try, test and run 25+ languages
• JSFiddle : Test your JavaScript, CSS, HTML or CoffeeScript with online code editor
• Ideone.com
• Pastebin.com
• Godbolt.org : Excellent tool for exploring the assembly output of different compilers with and without optimization.

Blogs of Developers

• Coding Horror : one the best coding blog
• WildMl : A blog for machine learning.
• Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings : blog on Python and open source
• Eli Bendersky : everything from Python to LLVM
• Joel on Software
• Stephen Haunts { Coding in the Trenches }
• Programming in the 21st Century
• Clean Coder Blog : blog of author of book “Clean Code”
• Programming Blog : programming blog of Yegor Bugayenko
• CodeAhoy : Blog on software and human factors. 100% Tested on Humans.
• http://stevehanov.ca/blog/
• Geek Land
• Late Developer
• IT Enthusiast
• blog.might.net
• CSE Blog - quant, math, computer science puzzles
• Small Programming Challenges and Puzzles
• My Tech Interviews
• HackerEarth Blog
• Algo-Geeks
• CoderGears Blog Insights from : the CoderGears Team
• Runhe Tian Coding Practice
• Paul Graham Essays
• Dan Dreams of Coding
• Antonio081014’s Algorithms Codes
• Math ∩ Programming
• Takipi Blog : mainly focuses on Java and JVM languages
• Coding Geek - A blog about IT, programming and Java
• Daedtech.com : Stories about software
• Archives — Ask a Manager : HR related stuff

For improving your English

• Quia - English
• Punctuation and Capitalization Rules
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
• Englishclub.com/learn-english

When you get bored from CS related stuff

• r/ProgrammerHumor : Subreddit dedicated to exactly what it sounds like
• Guide to Grammar and Writing for those who want to improve their english language skills
• Vsauce : The best youtube channel
• TED : Great talks about technology, entertainment, and design
• CrashCourse : small courses on various subjects
• National Geographic : High volume of high quality content from all over the world
• Barcroft TV : Daily short documentaries about the incredible variety of people that make up the world
• ColdFusion : Past, present, and future of technology
• SmarterEveryDay : Lots of amazing scientific information about the world around us, usually captured with a high-speed camera
• SciShow : Answers to interesting questions that you’ve always wondered about
• Big Think : Expert driven, actionable, educational content, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye
• Every Frame a Painting : High quality analysis of films and filmmaking
• TestTube News : Interesting information about news from around the world

• Reddit the front page of the internet : Where free time goes to die

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