Computing Without the Courses

These are not a substitute for proper study, or writing lots of code.

Go play Nand2Tetris. It’s a fun game, doesn’t need you to learn any syntax, and gives you the assurance that you computers are, in fact, built on very understandable basic components.

Fundamentals

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

• Putting the “You” in CPU

• The Elements of Computing Systems, and the Nand2Tetris game

• What is Code?

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets

• Data Compression Explained

• The Git Parable

• Computer Science for The Busy Developer

• What To Know Before Debating Type Systems

• Computing History Hub

PL Theory

• Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures

• Crafting Interpreters

Distributed Systems

• Building a BFT JSON CRDT

• Data Synchronization: Patterns, Tools, & Techniques

• A Primer on Database Replication

Crypto / Auth

• API Tokens: A Tedious Survey

Languages

• Go by Example

• Clojure for the Brave and True

• Learn You Some Erlang (for greate good)

Building abstractions

• Locality of Behaviour

• Writing good programming abstractions

• A Philosophy of Software Design – PDF

• CUPID—for joyful coding

• The Tweleve-Factor App

• The Law of Leaky Abstractions

Code janitor tips

• Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

• HTTP API Design Guide

• Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

• Parse, don’t validate

• Teach Debugging

• Thinking in Data

FAQ

OOP vs. func
Just don’t use OOP if you can avoid it.

what’s a lisp?
It’s when you put lists inside lists.