ogparra/helpful-resources

Links to articles/resources that I've found helpful

Learning resources

Links to articles, videos, or resources that I find particularly helpful or insightful.

Web

• American Mathematical Society, Google Page Ranker
• Google Chromium Blog
• Mozilla Developer Resources
• ECMAScript Language Specification
• Web Technology Popularity
• Web Framework Popularity

Technologies/Frameworks

• Amazon Web Services Homepage
• Laravel PHP Homepage
• MuleSoft Homepage
• Angular Homepage
• Bootstrap Homepage
• GitBook, Documentation
• Slate, API Documentation Generator
• Npm, NodeJS Packet Manager
• JavaScripting, source for frameworks, libraries, plugins
• CircleCI
• Babel, JavaScript Compiler
• TypeScript

Programming Books / Tutorials

• The C Book, 2nd ed. by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran
• Python Programming Tutorial
• Eloquent JavaScript, Marjin Haverbeke
• You don't know JavaScript, Kyle Simpson
• Full Stack React 30 Days

Data Structure / Algorithms

• Data Structure Visulizations
• What and where is the stack and heap

Open source

• GNU GCC Website
• Linux Kernel Newbies
• UCSC CMPS 107 Lecture Slides
• Open Source Intiative
• Atlassian git Documentation
• Github git documentation
• Contributing to Open Source Guide
• Git Cheat Sheet

Videos

• The mother of all demos, Douglas Englebart
• Formative Movement, Sal Kkan
• How Neural Networks work, Brandon Rohrer
• V8 engine and NodeJS, Franziska Hinkelmann

Non profits in tech

• All Star Code, Google Site
• AI for ALL
• Engineers without Borders
• ScriptEd
• Node School
• Code for America

Writings

• How it feels to write JavaScript in 2016, Jose Aguinaga

• Why keep a technical blog

• Being a full-stack developer

• What is means to truly be a full-stack developer

• Yet another optimization article

• Premature Optimization

• Programmers need a muse

• How the Github's Octocat came about

• A survival guide to a PhD

• Teach yourself programming in ten years

• When should you call yourself a senior developer

• Developer who does not like management

• An intro to Quantum Computing for non-physicists

• Fundamentals before technical interview

• Why do so few people major in Computer Science

• Why it's so hard designing a website for the government

• The man in the high castle

• EA Spouse Story

• Don't learn to code learn to think

• Computer Memory

• Women in Computing Reaction

• 9 Things you'll regret in 10 years

• What the top 1% of engineers do

• 40 Computer Science Concepts Explained in Layman's terms

• YC's Startup Playbook

• Startup dream screwed up my life

• Diversity in tech won't happen until VC's lose money

• A reading list for self taught computer science majors

• Hiring a decent Engineer is difficult

• How should we teach computer science

• Are you emotionally intelligent

• IBM Watson a joke?

• Joel Spolsky, Undergraduate Programming

• Jason Ford, The real reason my startup was successful

• Privilege Comic Strip

• What is a web framework

• Web Framework History/Future

• 7 Qualites that differentiate a great programmer from a good programmer

• How difficult is it to write a compiler

• Philip Guo's Ph.D. Grind

• UCLA Grad Plans to become President of Bolivia

• What is the difference between startup incubators and accelerators

• Loneliness of being a female coder

• A first generation college student's survival story

• Helpful list of interviewing questions

• Drug trafficing to tech, my startup story

• Seven things I learned about writing software

• Good software takes ten years. Get used to it

• The rise and fall of the Full-Stack Developer

• The myth of the Full Stack Developer

• Only one return

• The human cell atlas project

• What is a 10x Developer

• Resources for self taught developers

• Machine learning is not glorified statistics

• First generation students Pioneers not Probelms

• Work on a side project

Tech News

• Fortune's The Unicorn List
• SkimFeed

Career

• Payscale
• Climb up the ladder
• NerdWallet
• The Startup of You
• Self Worth Affects Salary
• Retire by 45
• Buffer's Transparency
• Lifehacker

VIM / Unix / Bash

• Thomer's VIM introduction
• Unix Tutorials for Beginners
• Bash Command Line Shortcuts
• Various Sysadmin Guides/Resources
• Digital Ocean SSH Introduction
• SSH Essentials

Markdown

• Markdown Live Preview

Mentorship

• 5 Questions Every Mentor Must Ask