Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit

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 can't 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
Podcasts
Building a Simple Compiler/Interpreter
Watch others code
Tutorials
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

Codementor : A mentorship community to learn from fellow developers via live 1:1 help and more.
devRant : Community where you can rant and release your stress
Learn Anything : Community curated knowledge graph of best paths for learning anything
Quora : A place to share knowledge and better understand the world
Stack Overflow : subscribe to their weekly newsletter and any other topic which you find interesting

News

ACM TechNews : TechNews
AlternativeTo : Crowdsourced software recommendations
Ars Technica : posts unique quality articles
Better Dev Links : Weekly links to help you become a better developer
DevOpsLinks : An online community of thousands of developers and IT experts interested in DevOps
GSMArena.com : news related to latest mobile phones and android.
Hacker News Digest : curated automatically, delivered as frequently as you want
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
Lobsters : Lobsters is a technology-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion.
product hunt : Discover your next favorite thing
Recode : Tech news that focuses on the business of Silicon Valley
TechCrunch : dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news
The Verge : More product oriented tech news
XDA : Android Developers News

Coding practice for beginners

Cave of programming : Learn to program, Upgrade your skills.
Codeacademy : Learn to code interactively, for free.
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.
freeCodeCamp : Learn to code and build projects for nonprofits. Build your full stack web development portfolio today
karan/Projects-Solutions : Solutions to most of the problems in the link above
Lod - Cloud : The Linking Open Data cloud diagram
Programming by Doing : very good site for those who want to start with absolute basics
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.
People Can Program : The most user-friendly code learning application on the internet.
Programming Tasks : large collection of small programs
Vim adventures : Learn VIM by playing

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

10-ways-to-be-a-better-developer : Ways to become a better dev!
Code Review Best Practices : Kevin London's blog
Dieter Rams : 10 Principles of Good Product Design : Stephen Haunts { Coding in the Trenches }
Design Patterns : Design Patterns explained in detail with examples.
How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well : How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well
JS Project Guidelines : A set of best practices for JavaScript projects.
Lessons From A Lifetime Of Being A Programmer : The Codist Header Lessons From A Lifetime Of Being A Programmer
Programming Principles : Categorized overview of Programming Principles & Patterns
Software design pattern : The entire collection of Design Patterns.
Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code — Free Code Camp : What I’ve learned from teaching others
What every computer science major should know : The Principles of Good Programming
Working as a Software Developer : Henrik Warne's blog

Coding Style

Airbnb JS Style Guide : A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript
Airbnb Ruby Style Guide : A ruby style guide by Airbnb
Ruby coding style guide : A community-driven Ruby coding style guide
Angular 1 Style Guide : Officially endorsed style guide by John Pappa
CS 106B Coding Style Guide : must see for those who create spaghetti
Debugging Faqs : Check out how to debug your program
Directory of CS Courses (many with online lectures) : Another online CS courses
Directory of Online CS Courses : Free online CS courses
Good C programming habits. • /r/C_Programming : C programming habits to adopt
Google C++ Style Guide
How to Report Bugs Effectively : Want to report a bug but you don't how? Check out this post
Stuff you need to Code Better! : Stuff that will help you
What are some bad coding habits you would recommend a beginner avoid getting into? : Bad habits to avoid when you get start

General Tools

CodePad : Quickly Conduct Coding Interviews and Phone Screen Interviews.
CodePen : Front End Developer Playground & Code Editor in the Browser
Devicons : Cheatsheet for devs icons
regex101 : Online regex tester and debugger: PHP, PCRE, Python, Golang and JavaScript

Interview Preparation

/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!
10 Frequently asked SQL Query Interview Questions
A Collection of Quant Riddles With Answers
Algorithm design canvas)
Aptitude Questions and Answers : Quant and aptitude preparation
A site for technical interview questions, brain teasers, puzzles, quizzles : whatever the heck those are) and other things that make you think!
BeehYve : Student crowdsourced resources for any topic
Big collection of interview preparation links • /r/cscareerquestions
Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet
BIG O Misconceptions
Bitwise tricks
checkcheckzz/system-design-interview
ChiperSoft/InterviewThis : questions to ask during on a interview to know more about the company.
Code Project : For those who code!
Core Java Interview questions - Interview question on each topic
C PUZZLES, Some interesting C problems
CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview
Delightful Puzzles
Determining the big-O runtimes of these different loops? : really good stackoverflow question that covers basics of calculating runtime complexity.
five-essential-phone-screen-questions - steveyegge2
Freshers Interviews
GeeksforGeeks | A computer science portal for geeks : also subscribe to their feeds to get links to their new articles.
Get Ready to Learn SQL: 8. Database Normalization Explained in Simple English - Essential SQL
github.com/odino/interviews : list of important questions for interview
Give your résumé a face lift
Guide to Tech Interviews
Here's How to Prepare for Tech Interviews • /r/cscareerquestions
How to Ace an Algorithms Interview
How to Answer "Tell Me a Little About Yourself" | The Art of Manliness
How to Answer the Toughest 40 Job Interview Questions | ICS Job Portal
How to Break Into the Tech Industry - a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews
How to interview
How to prepare for an interview - 1
IIT Delhi Placement Experience
Interviewing At Jane Street
Interview Archives - Java Honk
Java Interview Questions and Answers
Job Interview: How to Ace a Job Interview | The Art of Manliness
Job interviews News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker
Job Interview Questions and Best Answers
kimberli/interviews : study sheet for Interview
Mission-peace/interview problems : A large collection of coding interview problems
Pramp | A free on demand interview practice platform for Software Engineers : Practice coding interviews with real peers
Problems | LeetCode OJ : Coding practice for interviews
Programmer And Software Interview Questions Answers
Reddit.com/user/ashish2199/m/puzzles : Logic Puzzles
SQL interview questions : great SQL test
SQL Joins explained using venn diagram
svozniuk/java-interviews : Java interview questions
The 25 most difficult HR questions
Top 10 Algorithms for Coding Interview
Unix / Linux Cheat Sheet
Unsolicited_advice_for_job_seekers_and_employers
Visualising Data Structures and Algorithms through Animation
We Help Coders Get Hired : website offering courses on system design, interview strategies, soft skills etc
what_are_your_goto_questions_for_the_do_you_have?
Why You Make Less Money • /r/cscareerquestions
wu :: riddles(hard) : logic puzzles and riddles

Documentaries

Ask Me Anything: Gayle Laakmann McDowell (author of Cracking the Coding Interview)
Breaking the Code: Biography of Alan Turing
Cracking The Code Interview
Cracking the Coding Interview - Fullstack Speaker Series
Download: The True Story of the Internet : Play-list of discovery channel documentary on browser wars, dot com bubble and more.
Harvard CS50 - Asymptotic Notation (video)
How does CPU execute program (video)
Machine Code Instructions (video)
Machine that Changed the World - a very good documentary about history of computers
- Part 1 is unavailable for free streaming due to widespread copyright claims.
- Part 2: Inventing the Future
- Part 3: The Paperback Computer
- Part 4: The Thinking Machine
- Part 5: The World at Your Fingertips
Mechanical Computer (All Parts) : a very good video from 1950s explaining how mechanical computers used to work without all the modern day electronics.
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
Teach Yourself Computer Science
The Code: Story of Linux documentary
Triumph of the Nerds : Play-list

MOOCs for learning something new

Class Central : a directory of 100,000+ student reviews of thousands of MOOCs.
Computer Science Resources : list of MOOCs for autodidacts
Coursera.org : Take the world's best courses, online.
CS50 : A set of goods tutorials from cs50
edX : Free Online Courses, Advance Your Career, Improve Your Life.
Kadenze | Creative Programming : Programming courses focused on art and creativity
MIT OCW Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MOOC.fi : Free online courses from the University of Helsinki
NPTEL : Free online courses by IIT with certificates
NPTEL Vidoes COMP_SCI_ENGG : National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
prakhar1989/awesome-CS-courses : List containing large amount of CS courses

Sites related to your preferred programming language (For me Java)

Best books for learning java must read : Get basics of Java
Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ : The C++ FAQ
Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ : The C++ FAQ
C++11 - the new ISO C++ standard : The C++11 FAQ
Compilers (video)
Deep Dive Java: Garbage Collection is Good!
Free Online Chapters of Inside the Java Virtual Machine by Bill Venners
Garbage collection (Java); Augmenting data str (video)
How Garbage Collection Works
Implementation of Algorithms and Data Structures, Interview Questions and Answers
IntelliJ Keyboard Shortcuts : Keyboard shortcuts to enhance your productivity when working in IntelliJ.
Java Corner at Artima.com
Java Lecture Notes
Java Off Heap : Java Off the Heap house
Java Revisited : good for learning about Java Language and interview preparation.
Java-source : Java source
Java Visualizer : helps visualize references, values of variables ect
JournalDev - Java, Java EE, Android, Web Development Tutorials
Learning Java : a free online textbook for learning Java
Netbeans Keyboard Shortcuts : Keyboard shortcuts to enhance your productivity when working in Netbeans.
Search Open Source Java API : view source of java library and learn how things are implemented.
The C++ Programming Language : The C++ Programming Language.
The Java Memory Model
The Java™ Tutorials : The best tutorials for Java.
Understanding JVM Internals
what-is-garbage-collection : Demystify the garbage collection
Welcome to JavaWorld.com
XyzWs Java FAQs : large collection of java interview questions

Learn AI

fast.ai : Free practical deep learning course for coders without grad-level maths!
grakn.ai : The Database for AI
Robots that learn : Robots that Learn
Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron : Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron
What's the difference between AI- DP and ML? : Difference artificial intelligence, machine-learning, deep-learning-ai
TensorFlow : An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence

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

C++Now (BoostCon) : C++Now (previously BoostCon) conference
code::dive conference : code::dive conference organized by NOKIA Wrocław Technology Center
Coding Blocks : Tutorials, how to's, tips and tricks
Computerphile : Must watch for every CS student
ComputerHistory : for those who like to know how we reached where we are.
CppCon : C++ Conference
Facebook Developers
Fun Fun Function : A weekly series from Mattias Petter Johansson on an assortment of programming topics, including some not directly related to coding.
Google Developers
GoogleTechTalks : videos on trending topics and cool stuff happening in the tech industry.
Gynvael Coldwin : Awesome reverse engineering and hacking(CTF) videocasts. Every wednesday are new live streams.
HowToBecomeTV : contains good interviews of developers and people related to tech industry.
Java : talks related to java
JavaOne : Java Conference
Meeting C++ YT Kanalseite : Talks on C++
Netflix UI Engineering : great videos to watch for web developers, mobile developers and those interested in some of Netflix's tech stack
O'Reilly : interviews and talks of world's best technical writers.
Placement Grid : Interview and campus placement experience
Scott Meyers: Past Talks
Siraj Raval : Artificial Intelligence and deep learning tutorials videos
ThinMatrix : blogs and tutorials developer making a 3d game in Java using opengl
thoughtbot : talks on various topics
yegor256

Good Articles

40 Keys Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman’s Terms
A Gentle Introduction To Graph Theory
A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua.
A Software Developer’s Reading List : Some good books and links in there.
Code a TCP/IP stack : Let's code a TCP/IP stack, 5: TCP Retransmission
Data structure and Algoritms : List of some algoritms and datastructure with their solutions.
Data Structure Map
Dive into the byte code
Expectations of a Junior Developer
Linux Inside
List of algorithms
The Key To Accelerating Your Coding Skills
Unicode
We are reinventing the retail industry through innovative technology
What every programmer absolutely, positively needs to know about encodings and character sets to work with text
What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1
Why fast pages are important : Why App Speed Matters, Revenue

Podcasts

Coding Blocks : A podcast covering topics such as best programming practices, design patterns, coding for performance, object oriented coding, database design and implementation, tips, tricks and a whole lot of other things.
Developer On Fire : A podcast that shares the humanity of developers and tells stories of some of the amazing people in software, hosted by Dave Rael.
Developer Tea : A podcast for developers designed to fit inside your tea break.
Front End Happy Hour : A podcast featuring a panel of Software Engineers from Netflix, Evernote, Atlassian & LinkedIn talking over drinks about all things Front End development.
Full Stack Radio : Everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.
Groovy Podcast : A podcast dedicated to the Groovy programming language and its ecosystem.
IPhreaks : A weekly group discussion about iOS development and related technology by development veterans. We discuss Apple, tools, practices, and code.
JavaScript Jabber : A weekly discussion about JavaScript, front-end development, community, careers, and frameworks.
MS Dev Show : Jason Young and Carl Schweitzer talk about the latest in developer news covering topics such as the Azure cloud, Windows, Windows Phone, Visual Studio, and cross-platform development using the Microsoft platform.
React Native Radio : A weekly discussion of the tools, techniques, and technologies used to build mobile applications with JavaScript and React.
Software Engineering Daily : A daily technical interview about software topics.
Software Engineering Radio : A podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast.
Syntax : A Tasty Treats Podcast for Web Developers by Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski.
The Bike Shed : Guests discuss their development experience and challenges with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and others.
The Changelog : A weekly conversation that gets to the heart of open source technologies and the people who create them.
The Cynical Developer : A podcast that aims to help you to improve your development knowledge and career, through explaining the latest and greatest in development technology and providing you with what you need to succeed as a developer. Covering Desktop, web and mobile development, mainly around the .Net Stack but often looking into other software and frameworks.

Building a Simple Compiler/Interpreter

⛄ Possibly the smallest compiler ever
Awesome Compilers : Curated list of awesome resources on Compilers, Interpreters and Runtimes.
Growing a compiler
Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 1.
Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Writing My First Compiler

Tutorials

A Hacker's Guide to Git : for those wanting to learn git with a solid foundation
Best Of - Gustavo Duarte : contains articles on various topics
CMSI 281: Data Structures : light weight introduction to DS
Collecting all the cheat sheets : cheat sheets for lots of programming languages
C Programming
C programming language Frequently Asked Questions
Data Structures and Algorithms by John Morris : another good source with code and its analysis
Deep C : very good presentation on C language
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software : aka the "Gang Of Four" book, or GOF
Dynamic programming - PrismoSkills : very good resource if want to learn how to solve DP problems.
Git from the inside out
Head First Design Patterns
How to Program in C++ : Good resource for revising C++ topics and STL
http://www.mysqltutorial.org/
indradhanush tutotials : Writing a Unix Shell
Introduction to C Programming
Learn UNIX in 10 minutes
Learning the shell.
Linux Journey : good site for learning linux
Linux Tutorial : good resource for learning Linux
Linux Tutorial for Beginners
More about Github-flavored markdown
MySQL Essentials
Open Data Structures : Excellent resource for learning about DS and algos, provides code in various languages C++, Java and pseudocode.
OS Course Notes : Chapter wise course notes according to Galvin's book
Programming, Web Development, and DevOps news, tutorials and tools for beginners to experts
SQL (Structured Query Language) in one page : SQL.SU : a very good SQL cheat sheet
Subtle | Poor Man's CI : Learn how continuous integration platforms work under the hood, by building one of your own on top of git with Node.js
TCP/IP Illustrated Series
The Bash Guide : very good guide for learning the Bash Shell
The Descent to C : for those moving to C from some higher programming language like java or python.
The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction
The Unix Programming Environment
TopCoder Tutorials
Tutorialspoint
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition
UNIX Tutorial - Introduction
VimTutor+ : Learn VIM from the browser.
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Unix Shell : Unix shell scripting with ksh/bash
Snap SVG : The JavaScript SVG library for the modern web

Watch others code

LiveEdu.tv : screencast of people building application, websites, games, etc.
Twitch.tv : The programming community of twitch.

What should a programmer know

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
Programmer Competency Matrix : article for knowing what our level as a programmer is.

Competitive programming

Archived Problems - Project Euler
Art of Problem Solving
CodeChef
Codefights : Test your coding skills
Codeforces
Codewars : Rank up by completing code kata
Codility : Verify and improve coding skills
Codingame : Learn coding through games and challenges!
Google Code Jam Practice and : past contest problems for practice
HackerEarth - Programming challenges and Developer jobs
HackerRank
PKU ACM ICPC Practice problems
Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ)
Topcoder
UVa Online Judge : hundreds of problems supporting multiple languages.
WakaTime : leaderboards of coding metrics collected via editor plugins

Computer Books

Become a Programmer, Motherfucker (list of books) : Exhaustive list of books from Zed A. Shaw.
Best books for GATE CSE
cses.fi/book.html
github.com/vhf/free-programming-books : More than 500 free ebooks on almost any language you can think of

Video Tutorials

codedamn : front end web dev tutorials
Code School : A PluralSight Company and an Interactive learning destination for aspiring and experienced Developers
CodingMadeEasy : C++ tutorials
CS1: Higher Computing - Richard Buckland UNSW : a very good introductory CS course
Derek Banas : good quality tutorials
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
DevTips : web dev tutorials
Kathryn Hodge : Has good videos for beginners
mycodeschool : Data structures and algorithms tutorials
Pluralsight : Learn Software Development, DevOps and Data Science through multiple short courses
thenewboston : good but with too much talk as compared to actual content
Tushar Roy : Algorithm and Data structure tutorial by an Indian Youtuber.
Vim Tutorial Videos - Flarfnoogins : good video tutorial for learning vim
XDA-University - Helping You Learn Android Development

Online Compiler and Sharing Code snippets

CodePad : Code editor to try, test and run 25+ languages
Codesandbox.io : CodeSandbox makes it easier to create, share and reuse React projects with others.
Godbolt.org : Excellent tool for exploring the assembly output of different compilers with and without optimization.
Ideone.com : online compiler and debugging tool for more than 60 programming languages
JSFiddle : Test your JavaScript, CSS, HTML or CoffeeScript with online code editor
Pastebin.com
C9.io : Your development environment, in the cloud

Blogs of Developers

Algo-Geeks
Antirez - Redis Creator's blog
Antonio081014's Algorithms Codes
Archives — Ask a Manager : HR related stuff
Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings : blog on Python and open source
blog.might.net
Clean Coder Blog : blog of author of book "Clean Code"
CodeAhoy : Blog on software and human factors. 100% Tested on Humans.
CoderGears Blog Insights from : the CoderGears Team
Coding Geek - A blog about IT, programming and Java
Coding Horror : one the best coding blog
CSE Blog - quant, math, computer science puzzles
Daedtech.com : Stories about software
Dan Dreams of Coding
Eli Bendersky : everything from Python to LLVM
Geek Land
HackerEarth Blog
IT Enthusiast
Joel on Software
Late Developer
Math ∩ Programming
My Tech Interviews
Paul Graham Essays
Programming Blog : programming blog of Yegor Bugayenko
Programming in the 21st Century
rudhakar Rayavaram : Sudhakar Rayavaram Blog's
Runhe Tian Coding Practice
Small Programming Challenges and Puzzles
Stephen Haunts { Coding in the Trenches }
stevehanov.ca
Takipi Blog : mainly focuses on Java and JVM languages
WildMl : A blog for machine learning.
XDA - Android Developer Forum : Android Open Source Developers Forum

For improving your English

Englishclub.com/learn-english
Guide to Grammar and Writing : for those who want to improve their english language skills
Punctuation and Capitalization Rules
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Quia - English

When you get bored from CS related stuff

Barcroft TV : Daily short documentaries about the incredible variety of people that make up the world
Big Think : Expert driven, actionable, educational content, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye
ColdFusion : Past, present, and future of technology
CrashCourse : small courses on various subjects
Every Frame a Painting : High quality analysis of films and filmmaking
How to live for long time ? : The secret of longevity
National Geographic : High volume of high quality content from all over the world
r/ProgrammerHumor : Subreddit dedicated to exactly what it sounds like
Reddit the front page of the internet : Where free time goes to die
Ridddle : A youtube channel about science, mainly, but not only, the universe and space.
SciShow : Answers to interesting questions that you've always wondered about
SmarterEveryDay : Lots of amazing scientific information about the world around us, usually captured with a high-speed camera
TED : Great talks about technology, entertainment, and design
TestTube News : Interesting information about news from around the world
Vsauce : The best youtube channel

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