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.

Canon

• Hexing the Technical Interview
• E. W. Dijkstra Archive
• What is Code?
• Modern Functional Programming: Part 2
• SomethingNew
• Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?

Fundamentals

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
• Putting the “You” in CPU
• The Elements of Computing Systems, and the Nand2Tetris game
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
• Data Compression Explained
• The Git Parable
• Teach Debugging
• Computer Science for The Busy Developer
• What To Know Before Debating Type Systems
• Computing History Hub

Databases

I have a special Databases page because they’re so fun, just a never-ending source of interesting ideas.

• “Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities”
• Log Structured Merge Trees

PL Theory

• Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures
• Crafting Interpreters

Crypto / Auth

• API Tokens: A Tedious Survey

Languages

• Go by Example
• Clojure for the Brave and True
• Learn You Some Erlang (for greater good)

Building abstractions

• Locality of Behaviour
• Writing good programming abstractions
• A Philosophy of Software Design – PDF
• CUPID—for joyful coding
• The Twelve-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

Data modelling

• https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion

Misc.

We need visual programming. No, not like that.

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