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Some useful websites for programmers.

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 😉

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

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
Free Code Camp : Learn to code and build projects for nonprofits. Build your full stack web development portfolio today
Lod - Cloud : The Linking Open Data cloud diagram
Cave of programming : Learn to program, Upgrade your skills.

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

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)

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
Triumph of the Nerds : Play-list
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
The Code: Story of Linux documentary
Revolution OS 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

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!

Learn AI

Seminar , research writing , talks etc

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
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
NOKIA Wroclaw Technology Center : Nokia code dive conference
HowToBecomeTV : contains good interviews of developers and people related to tech industry.
ITCuties
CodeBabes : For those who think CS lacks glamor :P
Coding Blocks : Tutorials, how to's, tips and tricks

Good Articles

Podcasts

Building a Simple Compiler/interpreter

Tutorials

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 Programminng
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

LiveCoding.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
HackerEarth - Programming challenges and Developer jobs
CodeChef
PKU ACM ICPC Practive 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!

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
Javascript Planet : Java script and web development 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
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
10K-LOC
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
blog.might.net
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

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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