kmcelveen/learning-resources

evolving list of learning resources

learning-resources

#####General Programming

• Learn to Program, by Chris Pine - http://it-ebooks.info/book/36/
• 5 Ways To Learn Code From The Comfort Of Your Own Browser | TechCrunch
• Also, Why I'm learning to code
• Programr | Online IT Lab
• learn to code the hard way
• 5 more ways to start learning how to code right now for free
• Stypi - good for remote pairing
• $ cheat browse http://cheat.errtheblog.com
• Computer Science: Free Courses
• GirlDevelopItSF's Web Development Teaching Materials

#####C/C++

• K&R, The C Programming Language
• C/C++ Reference
• Learn C The Hard Way
• Google's C++ Class
• Learn C++
• Women Who Code study group C curriculum: https://github.com/LearnToCodeC/CProgrammingCurriculum#learn-to-code-c
• MIT Open Courseware C/C++ classes:
• 6.087 Practical Programming in C (taught January IAP 2010)
• 6.088 Intro to C Memory Mgmt and C++ Object-Oriented Prog. (taught January IAP 2010)
• 6.096 Introduction to C++ (taught January IAP 2011)
• 6.S096 Introduction to C and C++ (taught January IAP 2013)
• 6.S096 Effective Programming in C and C++ (taught January IAP 2014)
• Books:
• C++ Today (2015) - free O'Reilly eBook
• C++ Primer, 5th Edition (2012)
• Bay Area C++ Meetup
• Infographic: C++ Facts (2015)
• Bjarne Stroustrup's Homepage (creator of C++)
• C++ FAQ
• applications written in C++
• some C++ compilers

#####Go

• Go Language Tour
• Effective Go
• An Introduction to programming in Go
• Learning to Program in Go Video Series
• Pluralsight Classes for Go
• CodeMentor.io Go Tutorial
• Learn Go in Y minutes
• GoBridge
• Go Forum

#####HTML/CSS

• 35 Useful CSS3 Tutorials To Boost Your Skills
• Project Euler
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
• BuildingWebApps.com
• Build Cross Browser Extensions in Minutes - Crossrider.com
• Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Learning the web
• Udemy: Learn the Foundations of HTML

#####iOS

• CodePath:
• CodePath iOS Guides
• CodePath iOS Guides for Designers
• CodePath YouTube playlists
• Code School's Try Objective-C
• Ray Wenderlich tutorials
• Paul Hegarty's Stanford class CS193p on iTunes U:
• Developing iOS 9 Apps with Swift
• Developing iOS 7 Apps with Objective-C
• IBM Swift Sandbox

#####Java

• Head First Java
• CodingBat Java practice problems
• Java Style Guidelines
• original Coding Style Conventions for Java from Sun
• alternate Java Programming Style Guide from JavaRanch
• Google Java Style
• Secure Coding Guidelines for Java SE

#####Javascript

• Eloquent Javascript (open-source-licensed online book)
• w3schools.com/js
• TutorialsPoint's Javascript
• Egghead.io - training videos (AngularJS, React, JavaScript, Node.js, and more)
• Codecademy's JavaScript track
• Khan Academy's Javascript classes:
• Intro to JS: Drawing & Animation
• Advanced JS: Games & Visualizations
• Advanced JS: Natural Simulations
• HTML/JS: Making webpages interactive
• Nodeschool.io
• Mozilla's Javascript tutorials
• freeCodeCamp
• Jeff Cunningham's AngularJS-Learning repo
• Square's Intro to D3.JS
• 2015 survey of conventions, tools & libraries used by Javascript devs: https://ponyfoo.com/articles/javascript-developer-survey-results

#####Python

• Python Introduction - Google's Python Class
• Learn Python with Games
• Coursera Python
• Codecademy is now teaching Python!
• CodingBat Python practice problems
• NewCoder.io - tutorials (data viz, APIs, web scraping, etc)
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
• Full Stack Python - explains Python web development concepts and links to tutorials

#####Ruby

• Codecademy - Ruby
• Dev bootcamp - by bullets
• Ruby in 100 minutes - Jumpstart Lab Curriculum
• Install Rails
• Ruby.on-page.net — the simplest Ruby manual
• Rails Girls Guides - Rails Girls
• Ruby Best Practices - Book
• Hackety Hack!
• Code School: Rails for Zombies
• Devise Authentication in Rails 3 –
• The Well-Grounded Rubyist (9781933988658): David A. Black: Books
• Ruby on Rails Screencasts
• Ruby on Rails Guides
• Tryruby.org
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book and screencasts
• Ruby Quiz
• RubyMonk
• Learn Ruby with the EdgeCase Ruby Koans
• Pragmatic studio Rails course $$
• One month Rails $$
• The Rails 4 Way
• To connect with the SF Ruby/Rails community:
  • attend & then volunteer at RailsBridge events: https://www.bridgetroll.org/
  • contribute to the open source event-management site BridgeTroll: https://github.com/railsbridge/bridge_troll
    • this is a great RoR app that is actively developed by SF developers - experience + mentorship + networking

#####Selenium

• Selenium Official Documentation
• Selenium Tutorial by ToolsQA
• Selenium Automation Practice Form
• The Web Testing Handbook

#####Smalltalk

• GNU Smalltalk User's Guide
• smalltalk dot org
• Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk
• Smalltalk Cheatsheet
• Smalltalk-72 Manual
• BYTE: A Special issue on Smalltalk

#####SQL

• Codecademy's Learn SQL - uses sqlite, so good intro, but will be slightly different if you move to MySQL, Oracle SQL, SQL Server, etc
• Khan Academy's Intro to SQL
• Try SQL - Code School
• Common MySQL Queries

#####Git

• Code School - Try Git (in-browser)
• Learn Git Branching (interactive tutorial)
• Pro Git
• Atlassian Git Tutorials
• GitHub Training
  • GitHub guides
  • Git Cheat Sheet (pdf)
  • Open Source Pull Requests
• Git for Non-Developers
• Git-it - intro Git/Github tutorial (includes Traditional Chinese version, requires local install)
• Understanding Git Conceptually
• Good Commit Messages
• Lightning Talk: Do Your Commit Messages Suck
• Git Basics: Cleaning up Excess Branches

#####Algorithms

• Project Euler
• Visualgo - animated visualizations for algorithms
• MIT Open Courseware Algorithm Classes
  • Introduction to Algorithms

#####Data

• Code School - Try R
• Coursera -
  • The Data Scientist's Toolbox (John Hopkin's University)
• edX:
  • Explore statistics with R
  • Big Data in Education (Teachers College | Columbia University)

#####Game Development

• Brian Cronin talk about Game Programming
• Extra Credits game design YouTube vodcast
• Gamasutra ("The Art & Business of Making Games") postmortems
• OneGameAMonth.com -- free online game dev bootcamp & game jam enthusiast’s club
• SF Game Development Group meetup
• Game Jams:
  • globalgamejam.org
  • ludumdare.com
• Tools for making your own games:
  • love2d.org -- definitely start with this one -- Lua
  • unity3d.com -- most commonly used at game jams, etc
  • ogre3d.org -- a library / graphics engine -- C++
  • bulletphysics -- a library -- C++
• Artwork available online under a Creative Commons License (more fun to make game with cool graphics):
  • Daniel Cook, Lost Garden
    • http://www.lostgarden.com/search/label/free%20game%20graphics

#####InfoSec

• Reddit /r/netsec/ resources:
  • Getting Started in Information Security (Reddit wiki)
  • Hey we run five InfoSec consulting companies - Ask Us Anything (2014 edition) (Reddit AMA)
  • Hey we run five InfoSec consulting companies - Ask Us Anything (2015 edition) (Reddit AMA)
• Hacking Challenges / Demo Apps
  • OverTheWire WarGames
  • Matasano Crypto Challenges
  • OWASP Security Shepard -- web and mobile application security training platform
    • Sam Bowne has a working installation you can play against here: https://shepherd.samsclass.info
  • We Chall's collection of Challenges -- mostly Cryptographic, Crackit, Steganography, Programming, Logic and Math/Science
  • Aman Hardikar's Mind Maps -- check them all out, but especially:
    • Pen Testing Practice Lab - Vulnerable Apps/Systems
    • Useful Browser Plugins for Pen Testing / Web App Security Testing
    • Forensics Practice Lab - Forensic Challenges
• Capture The Flag (CTF) links:
  • CTF Field Guide
  • https://ctftime.org/ - archive of old Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions and calendar of upcoming ones
  • links from Carnegie Mellon's Plaid Parliament of Pwning (CTF team)
    • picoCTF -- Carnegie Mellon University's CTF training app
    • https://github.com/pwning
    • http://pwning.net/
    • Building a Competitive Hacking Team - USENIX Enigma 2016 talk about start of PPP + advice for developing CTF/security skills
  • Collaborating to Win -- presentation on Collaborative CTF Infrastructure (video)
    • write up of talk with links: http://lockboxx.blogspot.com/2015/11/cooperative-infrastructure-for-security.html
  • https://github.com/ctfs -- mix of CTF write ups & learning guide
• Bug Bounty links:
  • Bug Bounties 101 - Getting Started
  • Bugcrowd blog - keep up w/ security news & in touch with bug bounty community
• /dev/ttys0 Blog - awesome blog on hacking embedded devices

#####Internet of Things (IoT)

• AWS Loft Talk An Engineer's Tour of the Internet of Things (Sep 2015 video)
• BuildItSecure.ly - security researchers curating a learn-how-to-build-IoT-securely site (DEF CON talk introducing initiative - initiative mentioned at 37:36)
• http://iot.eclipse.org/getting-started - includes Connected Greenhouse tutorial (uses Java language)

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System Administration

#####Docker

• Intro to Docker workshop (skip slides 26-29 and instead follow the docs.docker.com setup guide): http://slides.dckr.info:88/DockerSlides.pdf
• Docker Orchestration workshop: https://github.com/jpetazzo/orchestration-workshop
  • fork this repo down to your computer, and then open this file in a browser: https://github.com/jpetazzo/orchestration-workshop/blob/master/www/htdocs/index.html
• Docker, Linux Containers (LXC), and Security slides from 2014 talk

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#####Getting Internships/Jobs

• (place Algorithm guides in that section: https://github.com/CCSF-Coders/learning-resources#algorithms)
• Cracking the Coding Interview
  • Gayle McDowell talk at CUSEC (university student conference)
• Hacker Rank (solve challenges, get recruited)
• Programming Interview preparation guides:
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/20ahfq/heres_a_pretty_big_list_of_programming_interview
  • http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/756/where-can-i-find-programming-puzzles-and-challenges
  • https://github.com/kimberli/interviews
  • https://github.com/andreis/interview
• Language-specific:
  • C/C++ Hundreds of C/C++ interview questions and answers.
  • Java "Ultimate" list of Java interview questions and answers (2014).
  • Javascript Long list of interview questions with answers.
  • Python 50 Python interview questions and answers (2014).

#####Misc

• Exercism -- practice problems in 22+ languages with crowdsourced code reviews (also open source project)
• Code School - Discover Chrome DevTools
• Linux Fundamentals, Part 1
• VIM Adventures
• Neural Networks for Machine Learning
• Meetup.com (link goes to find-Tech-meetups-around-SF-by-date page, instead of main page)
• Stack Overflow
• CodeEval - Evaluations Made Easy
• Learn Salesforce with Trailhead

#####Schools

• Coursera
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• all Electrical Engineering and Computer Science courses
• video lectures for 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
• Khan Academy
• Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development
• Codecademy.com
• Stanford School of Engineering
• Aquent Gymnasium -- mostly web dev courses, created by staffing firm (FastCompany article)
• Cyber Wizard Institute

#####Advice (let's keep this section small / tightly curated)

• Write Code Every Day
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
• How to Prepare for Your First Hackathon
• Five Tips for the New Graduate on Landing a Job in Tech
• An Unconventional Guide for Getting a Software Engineering Job
• Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
• Getting into Game Programming
• The (CS) Ph.D. Grind
• Venture Capital panel
• Advice on Giving Tech Talks (mid-career development tool)
• 180 Websites in 180 Days