links - programming

Basics

• Free OnLine Dictionary of Computing http://foldoc.org/ simple and great Foldoc : 2006
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html "Before you ask", "How to Ask", "How to Interpret Answers" Eric S. Raymond : 2006
• Ideal Programmer http://idealprogrammer.com/ Information, tutorials, news, jobs, and other resources for programmers. Newsfeeds for idfferent subjects. Focuses on web programming. Page design seems business-oriented and commercial-looking, but the information is good, and presented clearly. Ideal Programmer : 2007
• Programmer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer "A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, that is, one who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software." Wikipedia : 2006
• Programming FAQ http://www.paulgraham.com/pfaq.html Q. How can I learn to program?
  A. The way to learn how to program is to write programs. Paul Graham : ?
• Programming, at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming about programming, resources Wikipedia : 2006

Help

• BrainJar http://www.brainjar.com/ BrainJar.com features technical articles, tutorials and examples of programming for the web. It's not intended as a "cut and paste" site but rather a learning resource. brainjar : 2006
• Bytes - programming, webdev, IT forums http://bytes.com Questions and answers about everything Bytes : 2009
• Devshed forums http://forums.devshed.com/ Has really good search of the forums gen : 0
• SitePoint Video tutorials and how-tos http://www.sitepoint.com/videos/ "SitePoint's video tutorials cover a wide range of topics, including CSS, Ajax, Photoshop, Ruby, PHP, and more ... " View online, or buy to download. SitePoint : 2010
• Webhostingtalk http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ programming forums gen : 0

Open source

• The Birth of a FOSS Application http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/2127230 "I was unable find a FOSS application that met [my brother's] need for a free, simple, Web-based newsletter that provided the flexibility of mailing subgroups. I decided to roll my own under the GPL -- partially to give back to the FOSS community, partially to practice new programming techniques, and partially to provide a solution. What I learned may be as valuable as the software I helped create." Includes a good checklist on starting your own FOSS project. Brice Burgess : jan 2007
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar "Essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project" Wikipedia : 2006

People

• Brian Kernighan http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/ One of the fathers of unix and C Brian Kernighan : April 2006
• Larry Wall http://www.perl.com Father of Perl Larry Wall : 2006
• Richard Stallman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman Father of GNU Wikipedia : 2006

books

• Classic Programming Titles http://books.theregister.co.uk/classics.asp?advert=Classics2Page Showing the all-time classic books on programming The Register : 2007

code bits

• DZone code snippets http://snippets.dzone.com/ "A free link-sharing community for developers." Lots of code bits for many languages DZone : 2008

education

• Advice for Computer Science College Students http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CollegeAdvice.html 1. Learn how to write. 2. Learn C. 3. Learn microeconomics. 4. Don't blow off non-CS classes just because they're boring. 5. Take programming-intensive courses. 6. Stop worrying about all the jobs going to India. 7. No matter what you do, get a good summer internship. Joel Spolsky : 02 jan 2005
• Kids Programming Language http://kidsprogramminglanguage.com/ A simple language that runs on MSWin, to teach programming basics : 2006

interesting things

• Coders at Work   http://www.codersatwork.com/ Interviews with programmers. Famous programmers. Peter Siebel : 2010
• Coding Horror http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ Blog - "programming and human factors", by Jeff Atwood. Jeff Atwood : 2010
• Context-Aware applications http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/05/1727201 Interesting discussion of pros, cons, ramifications of context-aware apps SlashDot : Sept 2006
• Error codes or Exceptions? Why is Reliable Software so Hard? http://damienkatz.net/2006/04/error_code_vs_e.html Damien Katz :
• Great Hackers http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html "... who are the great hackers? How do you know when you meet one? That turns out to be very hard. Even hackers can't tell." A hacker is someone who loves to work on interesting problems. "It seems like the only way to judge a hacker is to work with him on something." "Because you can't tell a great hacker except by working with him, hackers themselves can't tell how good they are. This is true to a degree in most fields." Paul Graham : July 2004
• History of programming - graphic   http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.html "Over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline." Big poster, as PDF O\'Reilly : 2004
• Jamie Zawinski   http://www.jwz.org/docs/ Jamie Zawinski, programmer of Netscape and more. "Things i wrote about ... Warning, these are hardcore nerd documents." Jamie Zawinski : 2010
• Joel on Software   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ A professional programmer and businessman writes about programming and the biz. A very well-known and often-quoted programming blog. Joel Spolsky : 2010
• Leaky Abstractions http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html "Abstractions fail. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. There's leakage. Things go wrong. It happens all over the place when you have abstractions." Joel Spolsky : Nov 2002
• Some lesser-known truths about programming http://dotmac.rationalmind.net/2010/08/some-lesser-known-truths-about-programming/ a few things about writing software ... Programming is hard work. It's an intense mental activity. David Veksler : August 2010
• Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/ "A collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers – regardless of platform or language. It's 100% free, no registration required." Stack Overflow : 2010
• Super User http://superuser.com/ Collaboratively-edited questions and answer site. "Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. " Super User : 2010
• User Friendly http://ars.userfriendly.org/ daily comic strip about people working at a small isp: a couple of coders, a sys admin, a web designer, a marketer, and some other interesting beings. Illiad : 2006

issues and news

• Register Developer http://www.regdeveloper.com/ Issues and news in the world of software developers, from the irreverent computer news site itself. Register.com : 2006
• Register.com http://www.register.com/ Issues and news in the world of computers and IT; "Biting the hand that feeds IT" Register.com : 2006

logic

• Boolean Logic http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/cmp/online/P10F/boolean.htm 0 :

regular expressions

• How Regular Expressions Work http://perl.plover.com/Regex/article.html "This isn't an article about how to use regexes" - it is an article about how they work. Clear and interesting, by one of the main developers of perl Mark Dominux : 1998
• Mastering Regular Expressions - Review http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/13/147213 Review and discussion of 3rd edition of this class book by Jeffrey Friedl Simon P. Chappell : Sept 2006
• Regular Expressions http://www.regular-expressions.info/ Explanations, tutorials, editors, apps Jan Goyvaerts : 2006

teaching programming

• A Logo primer http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/turtle.html Basics of turtle graphics in Logo, and resources. MIT : 2009
• Logo (programming language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) About Logo, and resources. wikipedia : 2009
• The Logo Foundation http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/ All about teaching Logo MIT : 2009
• Turtle graphics (Logo) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics About turtle graphics in Logo, and resources. wikipedia : 2009

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