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Awesome CS

An awesome list of resources for people excited to learn about computer science!

Don't forget to contribute with the cool things that you find! (If you don't have a Codeberg account, use this Google Doc to contribute)

Bold items are highly recommended!

General

• LadueCS Google Classroom Join Google Classroom
• Stack Overflow Godly resource for looking up questions
• LadueCS Codeberg Ladue CS repositories
• Discord Ladue CS Discord invite
• Matrix Ladue CS Matrix space
• EbookFoundation/free-programming-books Free programming ebooks
• cloud.exozy.me/s/x4YcdBYCKPTrfb9 More programming books
• Code.org Coding tutorials
• freeCodeCamp Free coding courses
• howtuwu! Programming and Linux how-to guides
• TutorialsPoint Language tutorials. Has tutorials from Machine learning to Mobile Development
• W3Schools Language tutorials. Has the world's crappest code editor
• Hour of Code Learn how to code when you know absolutely nothing
• Codecademy Another learn-how-to-code website
• TwilioQuest A cool game to learn programming
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education CS topics that you don't learn in school
• Wizard Zines Graphical explanations of CS topics
• LadueCS AMA Everything you ever wanted to know about CS, answered by LadueCS club members
• DigitalOcean Development tutorials

Development tools

• Replit Great online editor for many programming languages
• exozyme Programming community and computing resources
• Gitpod Online IDE that gives you a Linux container where YOU ARE ROOT. ❤️
• Visual Studio Code Awesome IDE for many languages (free, works everywhere, highly customizable) (also VSCodium)
• Neovim Emacs? More like Ewmacs
• Spacemacs Emacs? More like vim(acs) with a good theme. Also, it's really good
• Kate Super fast and powerful editor that just works™

Python

• Intro to Python The best™ introduction to Python
• LearnPython.org Another Python tutorial
• Learn Python – Free Python Courses for Beginners#learn-python-full-course-for-beginners More Python tutorials
• CodingBat Python Learn Python by solving problems!
• Python for Non-Programmers A lot of good resources and tutorials for absolute beginners
• The Python Tutorial Want an extra challenge? Try this advanced tutorial
• PyCharm Awesome Python IDE for large projects
• Python Tutorials A YouTube playlist videos of Python tutorials
• Learn Python by Building Five Games - Full Course More Python videos
• Python Basics - CodersLegacy A compliation of Python basics
• Python Playground A simple Python online interpreter

Game Design

• Scratch Graphical programming language
• Godot Engine Easy-to-use 2D and 3D game engine where you write "real" code!
• Pygame Python game engine
• YouTube: Career advice, live streamed game-jams (aka speedrun making games in 1-4 days)
• Minetest A highly hackable and moddable voxel game engine

Web Development

• Responsive Web Design - freeCodeCamp Web dev tutorials
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials Web dev reference
• MDN Web Docs Advanced web dev reference
• Roadmap Web developer roadmaps
• Next.js Easy React framework for full-stack web applications

Frontend

• The W3C Markup Validation Service Check the markup validity of Web documents
• Simple Icons Free SVG icons for popular brands
• Feather Another collection of free icons
• Devicon Development related icons. MIT license!
• React Modern JavaScript library for building user inferfaces
• Material UI A React component library
• CodePen Front-end social development environment

Backend

• Django Python web framework
• Express Node.js web application framework

Cybersecurity

• LadueCS Cybersecurity Google Drive folder with lots of resources
• Hacking Isn't Magic Penn State Cybersecurity explanations
• Computer Security - Wikipedia A nice overview of cybersecurity
• National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education A long list of free cybersecurity resources
• Cyber Security Base A free course series by University of Helsinki and MOOC.fi
• Reddit Some good advice on getting started in cyber security
• Hack The Box "A Massive Hacking Playground"
• OverTheWire Hacking wargames!

Cryptography

• Cryptography - Wikipedia Good overview to find topics that you're interested in learning more about
• The Code Book: How to Make It, Break It, Hack It, Crack It The best cryptography book. Very accessible too.
• Cryptography Tutorial - tutorialspoint.com Cryptography tutorial
• CryptoHack A fun, free platform for learning modern cryptography!

Reverse Engineering

• Reverse engineering - Wikipedia
• Reverse Engineering Tutorial - Udemy Blog
• Compiler Explorer Online compiler to show the assembly output of compiled code
• Hex Rays A binary code analysis tool

Linux

• The Linux command line for beginners | Ubuntu A great command line tutorial
• Win-KeX | Kali Linux Documentation Kali on WSL setup guide
• Kali Linux Tutorial - tutorialspoint.com Kali Linux tutorial for ethical hacking
• 10 Top Kali Linux Tutorials For Beginners Kali Linux tutorials
• Download Ubunto Desktop If you want a fun challenge, try installing Ubuntu on your computer and play around with it!
• Ask Ubuntu Basically Stack Overflow for Ubuntu and Linux
• ArchWiki Great source for Linux reference
• Linux Documentation - die.net Online man pages
• openSUSE A great Linux distribution
• Debian A reliable Linux distribution
• Arch Linux A DIY Linux distribution

C/C++

• Learn C Free interactive C tutorial
• C Tutorial - tutorialspoint.com C tutorial
• The Descent to C - greenend.org.uk A good guide for people coming from higher-level languages like Python
• C++ Programming Tutorials Playlist C++ videos

Competitive Programming

• USACO Guide The complete USACO guide
• Codeforces Great CP website with a vibrant community
• Edabit Bite-sized programming challenges

Computer Graphics

• Blender The best 3D modeler
• Krita Digital painting
• Learn OpenGL Learn OpenGL
• Vulkan Learn Vulkan API

Machine Learning

• Neural Networks - 3Blue1Brown A overview and interactive series of neural networks
• Nerual networks and deep learning A nice book about neural networks
• OpenAI API Cool programming and language AI models by OpenAI

Software Engineering

Git, GitHub, and Gitea

• Oh My Git! A fun game to learn Git, the ultimate time machine
• k88hudson/git-flight-rules Git cheat sheets
• GitHub Training Kit GitHub cheat sheets
• Good First Issues Find projects to contribute to
• Learn the Basics of Git in Under 10 Minutes Learn the basics of Git
• exogit Free and open source code hosting

Containers

• Docker 101 Tutorial Docker tutorial

Demos

• Conway's Game of Life - copy
• Six Degrees of Wikipedia
• This X Does Not Exist AI image generators for people, cats, anime, etc. that doesn't exist
• Elicit Research assistant using language models
• particles.js A Javascript library for creating particles
• 2048 4d 2048 in 4D
• XaoS Real-time interactive fractal zoomer
• The Kilobyte's Gambit 1KB chess
• AI Dungeon AI generated RPG
• Deep Dream API Deep dreaming
• AI Experiments - Experiments with Google Miscellaneous AI stuff
• AI Demos - BoredHumans More AI stuff
• Tone Transfer Transfer sounds as performed by another instrument
• Spurious Correlations - tylervigen.com Data dredging
• JSLinux - Bellard Linux entirely in your browser
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project Wolfram computational demos
• The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme - suricrasia.online Only visit this site when you have lots of time because you'll get sucked in!
• A better zip bomb - bamsoftware.com Zip BOMBS
• Programming Sucks - stilldrinking.org Programming sucks

Other Good Stuff

• Macmod/awesome-CS Another awesome list
• zamansky/awesome-cs-education Yet another awesome list
• r/programmingmemes Memes! Memes! Memes!
• Junferno - Youtube Computer science, deadpan delivery, and anime all blended into one.
• Programmer Jokes
• does having an anime profile picture make you a better programmer? Disclaimer: It doesn't
• cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books (OK I'll stop with the anime stuff)

Things every programmer should know

Recommendation: you should be able to at least define every term below.

• Theory
  • Boolean logic
  • Binary
  • KB, MB, GB
  • Public-key cryptography
• Hardware
  • ISA
    • x86_64
    • ARM
  • CPU
  • GPU
  • RAM
  • Storage
    • SSD
    • HDD
• Software
  • Operating systems
    • Linux
  • Shells
    • Bash
  • Virtualization
    • Virtual machines
    • Containers
  • Programming languagues
    • Machine languague and binaries
    • Assembly
    • C
    • Python
    • Functional programming
  • Version control
    • Git
    • Code-hosting platforms
  • Markdown
  • Databases
    • SQL
• Networks
  • IP
    • IPv4
    • NAT
    • IPv6
  • TCP
    • HTTP
      • HTML
      • CSS
      • JavaScript
    • SSH
  • UDP
  • Ports
  • Firewalls
  • Routers
  • Server-client model
  • Peer-to-peer model
  • Blockchain
  • VPNs

Bonus!

Interesting terminal commands

• telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
• apt moo
• curl -L bit.do/neofetch | bash
• telnet freechess.org
• make friends
• curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keroserene/rickrollrc/master/roll.sh | bash
• curl parrot.live
• LC_ALL=C tr -c "No shortcode found." " " < /dev/urandom | dd cbs=$COLUMNS conv=unblock | GREP_COLOR="1;32" grep --color "[^ ]"
• curl -L https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui/releases/download/v2.2.8/eDEX-UI-Linux-x86_64.AppImage -O && chmod +x eDEX-UI-Linux-x86_64.AppImage && ./eDEX-UI-Linux-x86_64.AppImage

Interesting Python stuff

• from future import braces
• import antigravity
• hash(float('inf'))
• import hello
• import this

DANGEROUS terminal commands (in increasing order of nastiness)

• sudo dd if=/dev/random of=/proc/sysrq-trigger
• . .*y
• echo "source .bashrc" >> .bashrc
• sudo rm -rf $DIRECTROY/*
• :(){ :|:& };: