# 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: U like it? :star: it and [share](https://twitter.com/mr_mig_by/status/900735231552098306) with a friendly developer! U don't like it? [Watch the doggo](https://twitter.com/RespectfulMemes/status/900147758845308930) :dog: *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:* ---- ### Algorithms - [Big O Cheatsheet](http://bigocheatsheet.com/) - :book: [Computer Science Distilled](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34189798-computer-science-distilled) - :book: [Grokking Algorithms](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22847284-grokking-algorithms-an-illustrated-guide-for-programmers-and-other-curio) - [Sorting Algorithms](https://visualgo.net/en/sorting) ### 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/) - :page_facing_up: [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md) ### Strings - [Big List of Naughty Strings](https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings) - :page_facing_up: [Unicode and Character Sets](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html) - [Homoglyphs](https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph/) - [Unicode Common Locale Data Repository](http://cldr.unicode.org/) - [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names](http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/) ### Latency - [Interactive Latency Infographics](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html) - :page_facing_up: [Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know](https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832) ### Time - :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) - :page_facing_up: [Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones](http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/01/28/falsehoods-programmers-date-time-zones.html) ### Memory - :page_facing_up: [What every Programmer should know about memory](http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/) ### Distributed Systems - :book: [Understanding Distributed Systems](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56977420-understanding-distributed-systems) - :book: [Designing Data-Intensive Applications](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23463279-designing-data-intensive-applications) - :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) - :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) ### RegExp - [RegexHQ](https://github.com/regexhq) ### Security - :book: [Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128003.Foundations_of_Security) - [OWASP Top 10](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project) ### SEO - :page_facing_up: [What Every Programmer Should Know About SEO](http://katemats.com/what-every-programmer-should-know-about-seo/) ### Architecture - :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) - :book: [Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby](http://www.poodr.com/) - :movie_camera: [Evolutionary Software Architectures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CglSFhwbI3s) ### 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) - :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/) ### Career - :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/) - :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) - [Software Engineering 101](https://slides.com/mr-mig/se101) - :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) - [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/) - :book: [Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12544648-cracking-the-coding-interview) - :fire: [Everything you need to know to get the job](https://github.com/kdn251/interviews) ### Engineering Philosophy - :movie_camera: [Simple Made Easy](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy) - :page_facing_up: [Speed In Software Development](https://www.targetprocess.com/articles/speed-in-software-development/) - :movie_camera: [The Myth of the Genius Programmer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ&feature=youtu.be) - :movie_camera: [Making Badass Developers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTxC9pl-WM&t=2s) ### 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 - :books: [Free Programming Books](https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books) ### Services :zap: - [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/)