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A subjective list of web development & software engineering resources



## Table of Contents



-   [Web Development: Getting Started](#web-development-getting-started)

-   [Web Development: General Resources](#web-development-general-resources)

-   [Web Development: Front End](#web-development-front-end)

-   [Web Development: Back End](#web-development-back-end)

-   [Web Development: Security](#web-development-security)

-   [General Software Engineering](#general-software-engineering)

-   [Computer Science](#computer-science)

-   [Operating Systems / System Administration](#operating-systems--system-administration)

-   [Low Level(ish) Stuff](#low-levelish-stuff)

-   [Reading Code](#reading-code)

-   [Scene, News, Blogs, Podcasts](#scene-news-blogs-podcasts)

-   [Nerdy Stuff](#nerdy-stuff)



## Web Development: Getting Started



[Web Developer Roadmap](https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap)


Roadmaps for front end, back end, and DevOps. Useful to get a feeling for where you stand, what people do & what's there to know



[YouTube: Traversy Media](https://www.youtube.com/user/TechGuyWeb/videos)


General development tutorials, with a focus on web dev. If you want to learn a new tech, Brad's probably got you covered.



[YouTube: How the Internet Works for Developers: Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4S8zfLdLgQ)


[Part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTAPjr7vgxE)


Nice overview of the workings of the internet & the low level web stack in general.



## Web Development: General Resources



[Book: High Performance Browser Networking](https://hpbn.co/)


What you need to know about the underlying networking techniques when approaching web development. Seems to be freely accessible online



[Awesome Lists](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)


A list with important & inspiring libraries & frameworks, by a prolific developer



[Podcast: Syntax.fm](https://syntax.fm/)


Cool web development podcast (rather front end heavy)



[Newsletter: JavaScript Weekly](https://javascriptweekly.com/)


Weekly JS news in general. Highly recommended



[Newsletter: Node Weekly](https://nodeweekly.com/)


Weekly Node.js news



## Web Development: Front End



[Blog: Dan Abramov](https://overreacted.io/)


React guru delivering wisdoms of the inner workings of React



## Web Development: Back End



[YouTube: Hussein Nasser](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg)


One of the few youtubers focused on backend. Long, deep talks about everyday back end problems. Industry insight



## Web Development: Security



[OWASP](https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/)


Web dev vulnerability top 10 list. A good overview of what to look out for, including various solutions



## General Software Engineering



[Book: System Design Interview – An insider's guide](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54109255-system-design-interview-an-insider-s-guide)


High-level considerations for designing scalable software systems in cloud environments



[Screencasts: Destroy All Software](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts)


Screencasts about development in general, building stuff from scratch etc.



[Course: Execute Program](https://www.executeprogram.com/)


By the creator of DAS (see above). Well thought out curricula



## Computer Science



[YouTube: How Computers Work](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzdnOPI1iJNcsRwJhvksEo1tJqjIqWbN-)


Absolute basic knowledge about computers



[MOOC: CS50](https://cs50.harvard.edu/)


Learn computer science basics. Highly regarded by lots of people. Very beginner friendly, with opportunities to dive down the rabbit hole. Perfect accompaniment for self-learned web devs without a foundation in CS.



[Teach Yourself Computer Science](https://teachyourselfcs.com/)


A curated list of books & lectures on the most important topics of computer science. A good guideline for deep dives after CS50.



[JavaScript Algorithms](https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms/tree/master/src)


Important algorithms in JS. Maybe not first priority for the typical web developer applying in the EU, but interesting nonetheless.



## Operating Systems / System Administration



[Book: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces](https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/)


Very accessible book teaching OS basics. Online version is free



[Book: Unix And Linux System Administration Handbook](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-and-linux/9780134278308/)


A thorough (maybe even a bit eclectic) guide to Linux



[Book: The Linux Command Line](https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php)


Brilliant introduction to the shell. Freely accessible!



[Digital Ocean Tutorials](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials)


In my opinion the best hands-on tutorials for managing a VPS. Think "Setup Docker and Docker Compose on Ubuntu 20.04"



## Low Level(ish) Stuff



[YouTube: Build a simple HTTP server in Java](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAuGQNR28pW56GigraPdiI0oKwcs8gglW)


Build a HTTP server from scratch in Java. Nice if you want to get more low level after building a few backend apps with frameworks



[YouTube: Low Level JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/c/LowLevelJavaScript/playlists)


Building circuits & VMs in JS. Crazy stuff



[Book: Crafting Interpreters](https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html)


Accessible introduction to building compilers. This stuff is even relevant for today's front end dev. You can read it for free online, but the printed version is beautifully crafted.



[YouTube: Comparing C to machine language](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOyaJXpAYZQ)


Maybe the inner workings of computers become a little more obvious after watching this video



## Reading Code



[Code Catalog](https://codecatalog.org/)


How do important open source projects approach certain problems? Covers different languages



[Book: The Architecture of Open Source Applications](https://aosabook.org/en/index.html)


Nice high-level descriptions of the architecture of some famous OSS applications. Freely accessible



[Open Hub](https://www.openhub.net/)


Get meta information about OSS projects



[10 Things I Learned From The jQuery Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_qE1iAmjFg)


What's there to learn if you dive into a famous library's code



[Improve Your JavaScript Knowledge By Reading Source Code](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/07/javascript-knowledge-reading-source-code/)


Stresses the importance of reading other people's code



## Scene, News, Blogs, Podcasts



[Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/)


Must-read. Industry news & discussion



[Podcast: Command Line Heroes](https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes)


Computing history podcast, positive & inspiring



## Nerdy Stuff



[YouTube: Computerphile](https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid)


Tries to explore fascinating computer related topics in a mainstream compatible way