Important Resources

PRAG

• ESR’s “How to Ask Questions the Smart Way”
• “Write Code Every Day”

PROG

• “Choose Boring Technology”
• “The Absolute Minimum You Need to Know About Character Sets”
• Fred Brook’s “No Silver Bullet”
• “Test Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests”
• “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic”

Programming and Industry

• Joel Spolsky’s Talk at Yale
• yosefk’s gloss on patio11’s post on this stuff

FLOSS stuff

• ESR’s “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”
• RMS’s “The GNU Manifesto”
• RMS’s _Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Specific technical stuff

• UTF-8 Everywhere

Tools

Git

• Pro Git
• Atlassian’s Git Tutorials
• Oh Shit, Git!?!

Non-programming stuff

• Personal finance
  • “The best investment advice you’ll never get”

Meta-resources

• Big list of free programming books
• Andrew’s “programming” tag on Pinboard

Publications

• CODE Magazine

Notable Twitter accounts

• SwiftOnSecurity
• patio11
• Marcus J. Carey
• Lesley Carhart

Online Learning Resources

• CMU 313 - Foundations of Software Engineering