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-# programming-resources
+# Programming Resources
 Collection of resources for programmers!
+
+If you are starting out and want to follow a curriculum for CS, you can check out the follow resources:
+
+- [Teach Yourself CS](teachyourselfcs.com)
+- [OSSU CS](https://github.com/ossu/computer-science)
+
+## Table of contents
+1. [Books](./books.md)
+2. [Project ideas](./ideas.md)

books.md

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+# Programming Reading List
+Credits to [/u/CSMastermind](https://www.reddit.com/user/CSMastermind) for creating the list found here:
+* [Part 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/83xyow/must_read_books/dvmplj3/)
+* [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/83xyow/must_read_books/dvmpmfs/)
+* [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/83xyow/must_read_books/dvmpn75/)
+
+More reading list resources:
+* [The Ultimate Reading List for Developers](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jz2dyyDzgZS1zqe_vhY8SYQrhscNzpNfdAkGusWoMUU/edit#gid=0)
+
+## Job Interview Prep
+* Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
+* Programming Interviews Exposed: Coding Your Way Through the Interview
+* Introduction to Algorithms
+* The Algorithm Design Manual
+* Effective Java
+* Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Pattern
+* Modern Operating Systems
+* Programming Pearls
+* Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists
+
+## Junior Software Engineer Reading List
+### Read This First
+* Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
+
+### Fundamentals
+* Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
+* Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
+* Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
+* Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
+* Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software
+* Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing
+* Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
+
+### Understanding Professional Software Environments
+* Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game
+* Software Project Survival Guide
+* The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
+* Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams
+* Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
+* Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
+
+### Mentality
+* Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
+* Against Method
+* The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
+
+### History
+* The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
+* Computing Calamities: Lessons Learned from Products, Projects, and Companies That Failed
+* The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
+
+## Mid Level Software Engineer Reading List
+### Read This First
+* Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
+
+### Fundamentals
+* The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
+* Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
+* Solid Code
+* Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code
+* Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
+* Writing Solid Code
+
+### Software Design
+* Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide
+* Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
+* Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
+* Domain-Driven Design Distilled
+* Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
+* Design Patterns in C# - Even though this is specific to C# the pattern can be used in any OO language.
+* Refactoring to Patterns
+
+### Software Engineering Skill Sets
+* Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
+* Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
+* NoEstimates: How To Measure Project Progress Without Estimating
+* Object-Oriented Software Construction
+* The Art of Software Testing
+* Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
+* Working Effectively with Legacy Code
+* Test Driven Development: By Example
+
+### Databases
+* Database System Concepts
+* Database Management Systems
+* Foundation for Object / Relational Databases: The Third Manifesto
+* Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
+* Data Access Patterns: Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications
+
+### User Experience
+* Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
+* The Design of Everyday Things
+* Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
+* User Interface Design for Programmers
+* GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos
+
+### Mentality
+* The Productive Programmer
+* Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
+* Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
+* Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
+
+### History
+* Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
+* New Turning Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science
+* Hacker's Delight
+* The Alchemist
+* Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
+* The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
+
+### Specialist Skills
+In spite of the fact that many of these won't apply to your specific job I still recommend reading them for the insight, they'll give you into programming language and technology design.
+
+* Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
+* Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
+* Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming
+* The C++ Programming Language
+* Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
+* More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
+* More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#
+* CLR via C#
+* Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java
+* Thinking in Java
+* JUnit in Action
+* Functional Programming in Scala
+* The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques
+* The Craft of Prolog
+* Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting
+* Dive into Python 3
+* why's (poignant) guide to Ruby
+
+## Senior Level Software Engineer Reading List
+### Read This First
+* Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
+
+### Fundamentals
+* Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
+* Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
+* Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML
+* Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
+* Rework
+* Writing Secure Code
+* Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
+
+### Development Theory
+* Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
+* Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
+* Introduction to Functional Programming
+* Design Concepts in Programming Languages
+* Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective
+* Modern Operating Systems
+* Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
+* The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
+* Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
+
+### Philosophy of Programming
+* Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
+* Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
+* The Elements of Programming Style
+* A Discipline of Programming
+* The Practice of Programming
+* Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
+* Object Thinking
+* How to Solve It by Computer
+* 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
+
+### Mentality
+* Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
+* The Intentional Stance
+* Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine
+* The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
+* The Timeless Way of Building
+* The Soul Of A New Machine
+* WIZARDRY COMPILED
+* YOUTH
+* Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
+
+### Software Engineering Skill Sets
+* Software Tools
+* UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language
+* Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development
+* Practical Parallel Programming
+* Past, Present, Parallel: A Survey of Available Parallel Computer Systems
+* Mastering Regular Expressions
+* Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
+* Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C
+* Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book
+* The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
+* SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design
+* Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
+* Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more.
+
+### Design
+* The Psychology Of Everyday Things
+* About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
+* Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
+* The Non-Designer's Design Book
+
+### History
+* Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
+* Death March
+* Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
+* The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
+The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times * and Bad
+* In the Beginning...was the Command Line
+
+### Specialist Skills
+* The Art of UNIX Programming
+* Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
+* Programming Windows
+* Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
+* Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals
+* lex & yacc
+* The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference
+* C Programming Language
+* No Bugs!: Delivering Error Free Code in C and C++
+* Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied
+* Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
+* Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit
+
+## DevOps Reading List
+* Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart
+* The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services
+* The Practice of System and Network Administration: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT
+* Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
+* DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective
+* The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
+* Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
+* Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry
+* Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
+* Migrating Large-Scale Services to the Cloud
+
+## Entrepreneur Reading List
+* Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
+* The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
+* The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
+* The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
+* The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
+* Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
+* Ikigai
+* Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
+* Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch
+* The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time
+* Content Rich: Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web
+* The Web Startup Success Guide
+* The Best of Guerrilla Marketing: Guerrilla Marketing Remix
+* From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product
+This Little Program Went to Market: Create, Deploy, Distribute, Market, and Sell Software and More on the Internet at * Little or No Cost to You
+* The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
+* The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
+* Startups Open Sourced: Stories to Inspire and Educate
+* In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
+* Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
+Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite * Your Business
+* Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
+* Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
+* Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
+* Eric Sink on the Business of Software
+* Words that Sell: More than 6000 Entries to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas
+* Anything You Want
+* Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
+* The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
+* Tao Te Ching
+* Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
+* The Tao of Programming
+* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
+* The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
+
+## Computer Science Grad School Reading List
+* All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
+* Introductory Linear Algebra: An Applied First Course
+* Introduction to Probability
+* The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
+* Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
+* Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
+* What Is This Thing Called Science?
+* The Art of Computer Programming
+* The Little Schemer
+* The Seasoned Schemer
+* Data Structures Using C and C++
+* Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
+* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
+* Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
+* How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing
+* A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming
+* Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology
+* The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
+* The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
+* Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory
+* How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
+* Types and Programming Languages
+* Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms
+* Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Mathematical Methods
+* Commonsense Reasoning
+* Using Language
+* Computer Vision
+* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
+* Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
+
+## Video Game Development Reading List
+* Game Programming Gems - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+* AI Game Programming Wisdom - 1 2 3 4
+* Making Games with Python and Pygame
+* Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
+* Bit by Bit

ideas.md

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+# Project Ideas
+An extended list of project ideas:
+* [40 Side Project Ideas for Software Engineers](https://www.codementor.io/npostolovski/40-side-project-ideas-for-software-engineers-g8xckyxef)
+* [App Ideas Collection](http://www.ideaswatch.com/startup-ideas/app)
+* [Make your own...](https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x)
+* [Practical Projects](https://github.com/karan/Projects)
+* [1000+ Beginner Programming Projects](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2a9ygh/1000_beginner_programming_projects_xpost/)
+* [Awesome for Beginners](https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners)
+* [Project Based Learning](https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning)
+* [Rosetta Code](http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks)
+* [Epic List Of Side Project Ideas For Programmers](https://livingliferichly.com/epic-list-of-side-project-ideas-for-programmers)
+* [5 project ideas](https://medium.com/@JohanneA/5-project-ideas-for-programmers-who-dont-know-what-to-work-on-next-51fdb191cbde)
+* [6 project ideas to help you write creative code](https://blog.kadenze.com/creative-technology/6-projects-to-help-you-learn-creative-code/)