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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:

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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! :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

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

Data Structures

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
OWASP Top 10
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

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

Practices

:book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code
: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](https://www.pramp.com/)

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.

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Every Programmer Should Know :thinking:

Introduction

Falsehoods

Algorithms

Data Structures

Numbers

Strings

Latency

Time

Memory

Distributed Systems

RegExp

Security

UX/Usability

SEO

Architecture

Engineering Philosophy

Practices

Career

Fine-tune Your Resume

Open Source

Remote Work

Problem Solving

Soft Skills

Mental Health

Papers on Programming

Free Books on Programming

Services :zap:

Licenses

Where To Look For Further Info

Coding Practice Sites :zap: