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Reading list
Here you can find a list of relevant resources that you may find useful for learning new skills, or polishing the ones you already have.
The topics cover a wide variety of topics, from basic Python coding to general developing guidelines.
Feel free to create a pull request in Zulip's GitHub repository with any interesting books, articles or videos you would like to see in this list.
Some titles have been shortened for organizational purposes.
General programming/IT
Book - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Not free!)
Books - Free programming books list
Blog - Free Code Camp blog
Blog - Idle Words talks transcripts
Tutorial - HTTP Can Do That?!, by Sumana Harihareswara (PyCon 2016)
Video - Minimum Viable Documentation, by Matthew Lyon (WriteTheDocs 2014)
Video - NoOps, by Kelsey Hightower (DepOpsDays 2016)
Video - The mind behind Linux (TED interview)
Tutorial - Learn code the hard way
Tutorial - What happens when...
Article - An Interview With Linus Torvalds
Article - Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers
Article - Readme Driven Development
Article - Systematic Debugging
Paper - Floating-Point Arithmetic
Python
Video - Intro to Python for beginners, by Jessica McKellar (PyCon 2013)
Video - Breaking the rules, by Jessica McKellar (PyCon Sweden)
Video - Build & break a Python sandbox, by Jessica McKellar (PyCon 2014)
Video - Cache me if you can, by Guillaume Ardaud (PyCon 2014)
Video - Loop like a native, by Ned Batchelder (PyCon 2013)
Video - Modern Dictionaries, by Raymond Hettinger (SF Python)
Video - Python Language, by Guido van Rossum (PyCon 2016)
Video - The Mighty Dictionary, by Brandon Rhodes (PyCon 2010)
Article - Static types in Python, oh my(py)!
Guide - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python!
Java/Android
Course - Android Development for Beginners
Blog - Java Tutorials for Beginners
JavaScript/ECMAScript
Tutorial - clean-code-javascript Software engineering principles
Course - React native and redux course (Not free!)
Video - TypeScript vs. CoffeeScript vs. ES6
TypeScript
Tutorial - TypeScript handbook section on base types
Book - TypeScript Deep Dive
Guide - TypeScript Declaration Files Introduction
Git/version control systems (VCS)
You may want to take a look first at our Git and GitHub guide.
Computer science/algorithms
Blog - GeeksforGeeks
Book Introduction to Algorithms (Not free!)
Blog - Setosa data visualization and visual explanations
Course - Algorithms, Part I
Course - Open Source Society University
Course - MIT CSAIL 6.828: Operative Systems Engineering
Community experience
Book - Producing Open Source Software
Article - Advice on Starting And Running A New Open Source Project
Article - How to ask good questions
Article - Notes for New FLOSS Contributors
Article - To be mentored
Article - To mentor
List of good projects for new contributors