learn_to_program.md

Learn to Program

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Table of Contents

• Algorithms
• Android
• C/C++
• Containers
• Data
• Docker
• Game Development
• General Programming
• Git
• Go
• Haskell
• HTML/CSS
• InfoSec
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• iOS
• Java
• Javascript
• Misc
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• Schools
• Scratch
• Selenium
• Smalltalk
• SQL

Algorithms

• Project Euler
• Visualgo - Animated visualizations for algorithms
• Big-O Cheat Sheet

Android

• Android Udacity Free Courses
• Android Documentation
• Android Developers Blog
• Android Developers Youtube Channel
• Testing, Build and Architecture
• Android Architecture Blueprints

Books

• Android Programming
• The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development
• Head First Android Development
• Programming Android

C/C++

• C/C++ Reference
• Google's C++ Class
• Learn C The Hard Way
• Learn 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)
• C++ Today (2015) - free O'Reilly eBook
• Infographic: C++ Facts (2015)
• Bjarne Stroustrup's Homepage (creator of C++)
  • C++ FAQ
  • applications written in C++
  • some C++ compilers
• YouTube playlists of CppCon conference talks: https://www.youtube.com/user/CppCon

General Programming

• $ cheat browse http://cheat.errtheblog.com
• 5 more ways to start learning how to code right now for free
• 5 Ways To Learn Code From The Comfort Of Your Own Browser | TechCrunch
• Also, Why I'm learning to code
• Computer Science: Free Courses
• CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science
• DevDocs
• Free Code Camp
• Google Developers - Your First Progressive Web App
• How to Contribute to Open Source
• learn to code the hard way
• Learn to Program, by Chris Pine - http://it-ebooks.info/book/36/
• Programr | Online IT Lab
• Stypi - good for remote pairing
• Tech Prep - get started - suitable for all ages

Containers

• Kubernetes Basics - Interactive Official self-paced walkthrough tutorial

Go

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

Haskell

• Haskell Basics
• Haskell Wikibook
• How I Start: Haskell
• Learn You a Haskell
• Real World Haskell

HTML/CSS

• 35 Useful CSS3 Tutorials To Boost Your Skills
• Build Cross Browser Extensions in Minutes - Crossrider.com
• BuildingWebApps.com
• CSS Diner - game to learn CSS selectors
• Flexbox Froggy - game to learn how to use flexbox
• HTML5 Course from W3C
• Learn to Code Advanced HTML & CSS
• Udemy: Learn the Foundations of HTML
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

iOS

• Paul Hegarty's Stanford class CS193p on iTunes U:
  • Developing iOS 9 Apps with Swift
  • Developing iOS 7 Apps with Objective-C
• Flatiron iOS pre-work:
• Code School's Try Objective-C
• Ray Wenderlich tutorials
• CodePath:
  • CodePath iOS Guides
  • CodePath iOS Guides for Designers
  • CodePath YouTube playlists
• Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2nd Edition, Nov 2013) -- link to book on Amazon
• iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (5th Edition, Dec 2015) -- link to book on Amazon
• 50 iOS Interview Questions & Answers (article)

Java

• Head First Java
• Cracking the Coding Interview
• 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
• Teaching Kids Programming Designed to introduce kids ages 10-14 to computational thinking with logo-like TKPJava library, but fun for adult learners as well.
• [Programming With Java: A Multimedia Approach] (http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781449638610/) Learn Java using programs that draw graphics and images, perform animation, read and play audio files, and display video. Suitable for beginners.

JavaScript

• Code academy
• Nodeschool
• Exercism
• Eloquent Javascript
• Khan Academy
• Coder Projects - not all JS, but languages used are listed on the right hand side of the project list
• Hacker Rank
• Mozilla's Javascript Tutorial
• Javascript and HTML5 Now - short overview of modern JS. This is one of many free O'Reilly eBooks/videos, so it might be useful for other groups to check oreilly.com/programming/free
• CodePen - scope out cool ideas for html/css/js projects
• Free Code Camp
• Babel's ECMAScript 6 tutorial
• W3Schools.com
• Tutorials Point
• Square's Intro to D3.JS
• You Don't know JS
• Practical Javascript Free Javascript course, good for beginners to get a good grounding in the basics. Great analogies for arrays, objects & loops. Also has a companion Facebook group and a weekly online study/q&a session.
• JavaScript30 - Learn JavaScript by building 30 things in 30 days.

PHP

• Codecademy’s PHP course
• Learn PHP
• PHP the right way
• Laracasts series on Laravel a great way to learn modern PHP development practices
• Laracasts series on PHP7

Python

• Automate the Boring Stuff with 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) from founder of PyLadiesSF
• Real Python - learn python programming and web development through hands-on, interesting examples that are useful and fun!
• Full Stack Python - explains Python web development concepts in plain language terms and links to the best tutorials for those topics
• Flask - a lightweight Python web framework
  • http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/tutorial/
  • Discover Flask - full stack web development with flask
  • Flaskr Tutorial - Intro to Flask, Test Driven Development, and jQuery
• [Merscythe: Adventures With the Codue] (http://www.speltechnologies.com) - An adventure story-based game for teaching Python programming to middle and high school students. Designed for accessibility and customizability.
• Udacity - Full Stack Foundations - In this free course you will learn the fundamentals of back-end web development and build a data-driven web app with Python.
• Getting Started with SciPy
  • Python Data Science Handbook - O'Reilly ebook
  • SciPy Conference videos: SciPy 2016, EuroSciPy 2015, SciPy 2015, EuroSciPy 2014, SciPy 2014, SciPy 2013
    • 2015 Keynote: My Data Journey with Python
    • 2015 Keynote: State of the Tools

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 Odin Project: Learn Web Development for Free using Ruby on Rails

Scratch

• Learn Scratch in 10 minutes
• Scratch Lessons
• edX - Programming in Scratch

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
• Smalltalk, Objects, and Design
• Smalltalk: An Introduction to Application Development Using VisualWorks
• Pharo MOOC: Live Object Programming in Pharo
• Free online smalltalk books
• Pharo Books

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 - Learn basic database manipulation skills using the SQL programming language. Ins and Outs of DBs, Managing Data, Managing DBs and Tables.

Data

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

Game Development

• 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
• 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

Git

• Code School - Try Git (in-browser)
• Pro Git
• Atlassian Git Tutorials
• Git for Non-Developers
• Git-it - intro Git/Github tutorial (includes Traditional Chinese version, requires local install)
• Learn Git Branching (interactive tutorial)
• GitHub - Git Cheat Sheet (pdf)
• Github - Pull requests
• Understanding Git Concepts
• Good Commit Messages
• Github Guides
• Git Happens - Jessica Kerr - Great intro to Git. (YouTube)
• Git Immersion - Learn Git by doing it.

InfoSec

• Training:
  • [Hacksplaining - security training for developers] (https://www.hacksplaining.com/)
• 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)
  • We are Kaspersky Lab's Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) - Ask Us Anything (2016) (Reddit AMA)
• Hacking Challenges / Demo Apps
  • OverTheWire WarGames
  • [Hack this site] (https://www.hackthissite.org/)
  • 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
• 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 CTF team, Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP)
    • picoCTF -- Carnegie Mellon University's CTF training app
      • 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 - for bug bounty community
• /dev/ttys0 Blog - awesome blog on hacking embedded devices
• Kaspersky Labs:
  • Kaspersky Labs experts' technical research, analysis, and thoughts: https://securelist.com
  • Kaspersky Labs' tracker for APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats): https://apt.securelist.com
  • https://securelist.com/blog/opinions/67928/the-art-of-finding-cyber-dinosaur-skeletons
• Creative Commons licensed training material for computer security: http://opensecuritytraining.info

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)

System Administration

• Ops School Curriculum

Docker

• Docker Tutorials and Labs -- community-maintained in Docker's own GitHub account
• 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

Misc

• Code School - Discover Chrome DevTools
• Linux Fundamentals, Part 1
• VIM Adventures
• Neural Networks for Machine Learning
• Stack Overflow
• CodeEval - Evaluations Made Easy
• Command-line Power User - Free course to learn command line workflows.

Schools

• Khan Academy
• Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development
• Codecademy.com
• Stanford School of Engineering
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• edX