Best resources for software engineering

People often say that software engineers ‘ job is to solve problems. But strong in tech in not enough, you can’t just sit in the front of the screen all day pressing buttons, there are more to know in this profession. Things like activities, interview preparation, getting inspiration, avoiding burnout, knowing salary and career steps, blogging all affect your life to some degrees.

The internet is a big library of resources, here is my humble list to help you get started.

Workplace

Playbook 🎠

Some companies have playbook telling about how they and their engineering practices work

• Thoughtbot playbook.thoughtbot.com thoughtbot/guides

• Hyper hyperoslo/iOS-playbook

• Artsy artsy/mobile

• Basecamp basecamp/handbook

Activities 🏃

Having some fun activities at work is door opener for an active workplace and take some breaks from daily boring tasks.

• Future Fridays Each Friday, we give ourselves permission to suspend our usual work

• ShipIt 24 hours to innovate

• Peer Lab Foster a collaborative learning environment where everyone feels fulfilled.

• Investment Time On Fridays, we have “investment time” when we learn new tools and techniques, work on open source, create new products, write blog posts, and try to make ourselves, each other, and the community better.

• Sharing Session Weekly internal sharing sessions that both enable and empower our developers, designers and business development teams alike in expanding both technical and non-technical knowledge through mutual learning

• The Lab It has become an important place to learn making new stuff, test emerging technologies and build fun things.

Perks 🛰

If you are treated unfairly in salary, you will be treated unfairly in many other ways.

• Employee benefits at Basecamp

• Framework For Happiness

• Perks and Recreation

• Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in San Francisco, but now we pay everyone as though all did

Blogs 🎢

Reading, or better, writing, a blog is a great way to keep you updated.

• Artsy http://artsy.github.io 🚀

• Apple swift.org/blog

• Thoughtbot robots.thoughtbot.com

• Yalantis yalantis.com/blog

• Raizlabs http://www.raizlabs.com/dev

• Atomic Object http://spin.atomicobject.com

• Elabs http://www.elabs.se/blog

• Parse http://blog.parse.com

• Badoo techblog.badoo.com

• Outware http://www.outware.com.au/insights

• Facebook code.facebook.com/posts http://makeitopen.com ⭐️

• Twitter blog.twitter.com/engineering

• Yelp http://engineeringblog.yelp.com

• Macoscope http://macoscope.com/blog

• Airbnb http://nerds.airbnb.com

• Tumblr engineering.tumblr.com

• Joel on Software joelonsoftware.com 🚀

• Coding Horror blog.codinghorror.com 🚀

Career Steps 🏇

Learn what people expect you at the next step.

• Sharing Our Engineering Ladder

• Engineering Ladders — Helping Engineers Along Their Way

• techladder

• Spotify Technology Career Steps

• Titles for programmers

• Engineering Levels at SoundCloud

Engineering

Posts

• 15 things I wish I’d learned earlier about software engineering

• The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming

• 6 common traits of good programmers

• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

• Programming Tips

• HowToBeAProgrammer

• 12 resolutions for programmers

• The codeless code

• I know how to program, but I don’t know what to program

• Outperforming the Competition

• The Ultimate Code Kata

• “Eat, sleep, code, repeat” is such bullshit

• The Impact of Code in Society

• Seniority

• A Strategy for Great Work

• The company isn’t a family

• Become — How I went from selling food in the street to working for top firms in tech

• What have you learned after working at Facebook for almost two years?

• Productivity

• Mistakes New Developers Make

• Things senior developers know

• Steps to better code

• Programmers who only code at work

• 30 best practices for software development and testing

• The Developer’s Edge: How To Become A Senior Developer

It’s never too late

• Stories from 300 developers who got their first tech job in their 30s, 40s, and 50s

Code Review

• On Writing Software Well

Test

• Just Eat justeat/JustEat.RecruitmentTest

• Babylon Health Babylonpartners/iOS-Interview-Demo

• Holmusk Holmusk/iOS-Challenge

• Badoo Coding Challenge challenge.badoo.com

• Spotify Puzzle labs.spotify.com/puzzles

Engineering Manager

• On being an Engineering Manager

• Flavors of Engineering Management

• How to be a manager

Bookshelf 📕

• The Pragmatic Bookshelf pragprog.com/titles

• Leanpub leanpub.com

• Packt Publishing packtpub.com

Course 📚

• Upcase upcase.com

• Egghead egghead.io

• LearnCode.academy youtube.com/channel/UCVTlvUkGslCV_h-nSAId8Sw

• LevelUpTuts youtube.com/user/LevelUpTuts/playlists?view=1&sort=dd

• Codeacademy codecademy.com/learn

• Scotch scotch.io

• Stanford Online http://online.stanford.edu

• Microsoft Virtual Academy mva.microsoft.com

• Free code camp freecodecamp.com 🐝

• Udacity Nanodegree udacity.com/nanodegree/plus 🚀

• Learn to code with live streams from the best developers!

Event ✈️

• hack.summit() hacksummit.org

Practice 🏋️

• Codewar http://www.codewars.com

• Hacker Rank hackerrank.com

• Code Fight codefights.com

• Coders Clan codersclan.com

• Code Combat http://codecombat.com

• Coding Game codingame.com/start

• Hacker Trail hackertrail.com

• LeetCode leetcode.com 💪💪💪

• interviewing.io Practice interviews with engineers from top companies, anonymously

• Pramp Practice live technical interviews

• Byte by Byte Coding practice

Jobs

Posts

• freelance-contract freelance

• On Hiring

• When we only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest

• I interviewed at five top companies in Silicon Valley in five days, and luckily got five job offers

• DevTeam

Salary

• Calculate your salary

• Fall 2015 Salary Detail

• Buffer’s Transparent Salary Calculator

• Startup Salary & Equity Share

• TripleByte salary data

Resume

• JSON Resume json

• markdown-resume markdown

• Github resume github

• 8-minute resume: my guide to writing your resume effectively

• best-resume-ever Build fast and easy multiple beautiful resumes

• uses this interviews What do people use to get the job done?

Challenges

• GermanAutolabs iOS-coding-challenge iOS coding challenge for German Autolabs

• Holmusk Engineering-Challenge-iOS Holmusk iOS Engineering Challenge http://holmusk.com

• Babylonpartners iOS-Interview-Demo Interview Demo Project for babylon health

Interviewee

• Recruiting Advice No One Tells You

• INTERVIEWING @ GOOGLE

• If you and every job candidate had identical resumes, what would you say/do at an interview to stand out?

• 5 Mistakes Developers Make During the Job Hunt

• interview-prep

• Hired fast 🚀

• The iOS Interview Guide for developers

• google-interview-university A complete daily plan for studying to become a Google software engineer.

• I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned.

• MaximAbramchuck/awesome-interview-questions 🚀

• Interviews Everything you need to know to get the job.

• tech-interview-handbook 💯 Technical and non-technical guide for rocking your coding interview.

• Software Engineering: Interviews

• CS Dojo 🚀

• Interviewing, applying and getting your first job in iOS

• What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google

• Do I Want To Work In This Company, or What Questions To Ask On An Interview

• How I landed offers from Microsoft, Amazon, and Twitter without an Ivy League degree

Interviewer

• This is why you never end up hiring good developers

• Effective Programing: More than writing code Hiring Programmers The Right Way

• The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions

• How to Interview a Programmer

• The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)

• SellsBrother interview

• Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent

• How to get a job at Atlassian — An insider’s perspective

• Not another Android Interviews’ article: Think it through

• Engineering Interview at Atlassian Sydney

Groups

• Slack List A handpicked selection of top Slack communities

Startup 🥊

• How to start a startup http://startupclass.samaltman.com

• FB Startup developers.facebook.com/fbstart

Learning

Books

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship ⭐️

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition 2nd Edition

• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

• Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# ⭐️

• Refactoring to Patterns

• Effective Java

• Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design

• The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C# ⭐️

• The Codist

• thoughtbot Learn : The Weekly Iteration: a show by thoughtbot

Channels

• Dave Xiang Easy-to-understand technical videos.

• CS Dojo Help people learn more about programming, computer science, and tech career.

• Engineered Truth Helping people be rich instead of looking rich with realistic career videos.

• Simple Programmer Career advice, programming tips

• Life at Google Everything that makes up life at Google.

• Destroy all software screencasts 🚀

• Clean Coders 🚀

Clean Code

• ▶ Clean Code — YouTube

• The Clean Code Talks — Don’t Look For Things! — YouTube

• How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Refactoring

• Alpha list of refactorings

• Refactoring to Patterns Catalog

Design Patterns

• Factory Design Pattern — YouTube

• Design Patterns

• Software design pattern — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Principles

• 10 Object Oriented Design principles Java programmer should know (guest post)

• 3 Key Software Principles You Must Understand

• OO Design Principles | Valuable Opinions

• SOLID Class Design: The Liskov Substitution Principle « Tom Dalling Tom Dalling

• ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod

• Design Principles | Object Oriented Design

• Separation of Concerns | Effective Software Design

• Object Oriented Design — YouTube

Architecture

• Catalog of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

• fantastic-ios-architecture

Clean Architecture

• The delivery mechanism is an annoying detail — Coding the Architecture

• The Clean Architecture | 8th Light ⭐️

• luisobo/clean-architecture

• Destroy All Software Screencasts

• Robert C. Martin — Clean Architecture on Vimeo

• android10/Android-CleanArchitecture

• Clean Architecture, by Luis Zamith of Group Buddies

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Comments

[Matthew Salamon]

For a new comers to software development, worth having a look at sourceful.co.uk/doc/520/how-to-lea... for some useful tips of how to start learning

[juankOrtiz]

This is a golden list. Thanks!