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# Every Programmer Should Know :thinking:
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A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know.
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:point_up: *These are resources I can recommend to every programmer regardless of their skill level or tech stack*
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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 ](https://xkcd.com/1050/ ) all of that by heart to be a programmer.
But knowing the stuff will help you become better! :muscle:*
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### Algorithms
- [Big O Cheatsheet ](http://bigocheatsheet.com/ )
- :book: [Grokking Algorithms ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22847284-grokking-algorithms-an-illustrated-guide-for-programmers-and-other-curio )
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- [Sorting Algorithms ](https://visualgo.net/en/sorting )
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### Numbers
- :page_facing_up: [Floating Point Guide ](http://floating-point-gui.de/ )
- :page_facing_up: [Basic Number Theory Every Programmer Should Know... ](https://www.codechef.com/wiki/tutorial-number-theory/ )
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- :page_facing_up: [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers ](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md )
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### Strings
- [Big List of Naughty Strings ](https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings )
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- :page_facing_up: [Unicode and Character Sets ](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html )
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- [Homoglyphs ](https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph/ )
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- [Unicode Common Locale Data Repository ](http://cldr.unicode.org/ )
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- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names ](http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ )
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### Latency
- [Interactive Latency Infographics ](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html )
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- :page_facing_up: [Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know ](https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 )
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### Addresses
- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Addresses ](https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ )
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### Time
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- :page_facing_up: [Falsehoods programmers believe about time ](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time )
- :page_facing_up: [More falsehoods programmers believe about time; “wisdom of the crowd” edition ](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time )
- :page_facing_up: [Some notes about time ](https://unix4lyfe.org/time/?v=1 )
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- :page_facing_up: [Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones ](http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/01/28/falsehoods-programmers-date-time-zones.html )
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### Memory
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- :page_facing_up: [What every Programmer should know about memory ](http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/ )
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### Distributed Systems
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- :book: [Designing Data-Intensive Applications ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23463279-designing-data-intensive-applications )
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- :scroll: [Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems ](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/talks/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf )
- :scroll: [Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System ](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/time-clocks-ordering-events-distributed-system/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fum%2Fpeople%2Flamport%2Fpubs%2Ftime-clocks.pdf )
- :page_facing_up: [There is No Now ](http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2745385 )
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- :page_facing_up: [Jepsen: how different databases behave under partition ](https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen )
- :scroll: [Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained ](http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf )
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### RegExp
- [RegexHQ ](https://github.com/regexhq )
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### Security
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- :book: [Security Programming ](https://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/ )
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- :page_facing_up: [Rolling Your Own Crypto ](http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/rolling-your-own-crypto )
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- :book: [Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128003.Foundations_of_Security )
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- [OWASP Top 10 ](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project )
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### SEO
- :page_facing_up: [What Every Programmer Should Know About SEO ](http://katemats.com/what-every-programmer-should-know-about-seo/ )
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### Architecture
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- :scroll: [A Field Guide to Boxology ](http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cs562/s98/pdf/Boxology.pdf )
- :scroll: [Out of the Tar Pit ](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/design/out-of-the-tar-pit.pdf?raw=true )
- :scroll: [No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering ](http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~xswang/Research/Papers/SERelated/no-silver-bullet.pdf )
- :movie_camera: [Growing a Language ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 )
- :movie_camera: [CQRS and Event Sourcing ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHGkaShoyNs )
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- :book: [Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby ](http://www.poodr.com/ )
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- :movie_camera: [Evolutionary Software Architectures ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CglSFhwbI3s )
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### Practices
- :book: [Working Effectively with Legacy Code ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44919.Working_Effectively_with_Legacy_Code )
- :book: [Test Driven Development: By Example ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387190.Test_Driven_Development )
- :white_check_mark: [Going To Production Checklist ](https://github.com/mr-mig/going-to-production )
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- :book: [Release It! ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1069827.Release_It_ )
- :book: [Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming ](https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/ )
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- :book: [SICP: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43713.Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs )
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- :page_facing_up: [Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Turtle ](https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/13-ways-of-looking-at-a-turtle-3/ )
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- :scroll: [Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know ](https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf )
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### Career
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- :page_facing_up: [10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job ](http://www.applematters.com/article/10-things-every-programmer-should-know-for-their-first-job/ )
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- :page_facing_up: [How Much Do Software Engineers Really Make in Each City? ](https://www.codementor.io/blog/best-cities-software-engineer-earnings-271vpf599k )
- :page_facing_up: [Software Engineers Tenure in San Francisco ](https://hackerlife.co/blog/san-francisco-large-corporation-employee-tenure )
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- [Software Engineering 101 ](https://slides.com/mr-mig/se101 )
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- :book: [The Passionate Programmer ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6399113-the-passionate-programmer )
- :book: [Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23232941-soft-skills )
- :book: [Programming Beyond Practices: Be More Than Just a Code Monkey ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29895093-programming-beyond-practices )
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- [A list of European Investors ](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hfl67rI0Pk_hSm0GIX0QByW4NgfAH-cEmMa4N6UoO1w/edit#gid=1203141194 )
- :page_facing_up: [Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer ](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer-ee17cccbdab6 )
- :page_facing_up: [How To Interview As a Developer Candidate ](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-interview-as-a-developer-candidate-b666734f12dd )
- :book: [How To Be A STAR Engineer ](http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/Research/Advice/star_engineer.pdf )
- :page_facing_up: [TL;DR; Stock Options ](https://tldroptions.io/ )
- :page_facing_up: [Equity 101 for Startup Employees ](https://blog.esharesinc.com/equity-101-stock-option-basics/ )
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- :book: [Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12544648-cracking-the-coding-interview )
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- :fire: [Everything you need to know to get the job ](https://github.com/kdn251/interviews )
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### Engineering Philosophy
- :movie_camera: [Simple Made Easy ](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy )
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- :page_facing_up: [Speed In Software Development ](https://www.targetprocess.com/articles/speed-in-software-development/ )
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- :movie_camera: [The Myth of the Genius Programmer ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ&feature=youtu.be )
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- :movie_camera: [Making Badass Developers ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTxC9pl-WM&t=2s )
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- :page_facing_up: [The Ten Rules of a Zen Programmer ](https://www.zenprogrammer.org/en/the10rulesofazenprogrammer.html )
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### Soft Skills
- :book: [Difficult Conversations ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774088.Difficult_Conversations )
- :book: [Crucial Conversations ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15014.Crucial_Conversations )
- :book: [How to Win Friends and Influence People ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People )
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### Papers on Programming
- :heart: [Papers We Love ](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love )
- :newspaper: [The Morning Paper ](https://blog.acolyer.org/ )
### Free Books on Programming
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- :books: [Free Programming Books ](https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books )
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### Services :zap:
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- [Free For Dev ](https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev/blob/master/README.md )
- [Public APIs ](https://github.com/abhishekbanthia/Public-APIs )
- [The Noun Project ](https://thenounproject.com/ )
- [Without Coding ](https://www.producthunt.com/@jurica87/collections/without-coding )
- [Simpleicons ](https://simpleicons.org/ )