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Professional Programming

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. (Abraham Lincoln)

A collection of full-stack resources for programmers.

The goal of this page is to make you a more proficient developer. You'll find only resources that I've found truly inspiring, or that have been become timeless classics.

Must read books

I've found these books incredibly inspiring:

There are some free books available, including:

Must-read articles

Topics

Know your algorithm and data structures

Let's be honest: algo can be a pretty dry topic. This quora question lists some funnier learning alternative, including:

Attitude & habits

Characters sets

Coding

Computer science

Databases

Debugging

Design (visual, UX, UI)

I highly recommend reading The Non-Designer's Design Book. This is a pretty short book that will give you some very actionable design advices.

Design patterns and anti-patterns

Here's a list of good books:

I maintain a list of antipatterns on another repo. This is a highly recommended read.

Dev environment & tools

Tools

Dotfiles

Articles

Editors & IDE

Incident response (outages, firefighting)

Internet

Interviewing

Managing the database

Programming language

This is language-specific, for instance, checkout my professional Python education doc.

I'd recommend learning:

  • At least one dynamic language (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc.). Pretty useful for quick one-off automation scripts, and fastest to write for interviews.
  • At least one compiled language (Java, C, C++, etc.)
  • At least one more recent language to see where the industry is going (as of writing, Go, Swift, Rust, etc.)
  • At least one language that has first-class support for functional programming (Haskell, Scala, etc.)

A bit more reading:

FP vs. OOP

Reading

  • Papers we love: papers from the computer science community to read and discuss. Can be a good source of inspiration of solving your design problems.

Releasing & deploying

Security

Shell

Resources

System architecture

Testing

Version control (Git)

Webdesign

Writing for performance

Concepts