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On the Internet, there are many tutorials/courses to learn development, except that most of them are bad because they teach you bad practices or obsolete things. That is why this list of good sources for learning development has been created.

• Tutorials/Courses by languages
  • Algorithm
  • Bash
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Clojure
  • Common Lisp
  • Elixir
  • Git
  • Go
  • Haskell
  • HTML/CSS
  • Java
  • Javascript
  • Kotlin
  • Lua
  • OCaml
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • SQL
  • Typescript
  • VHDL
• Text editors
• The IDEs
• Developper roadmap
• Sites to avoid
• Useful links
• License

Tutorials/Courses by languages

Algorithm

• Courses (Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen on Amazon)
• Courses (GoalKicker)

Bash

• Bash HOWTO
• Bash wiki

C

• Courses (GoalKicker)
• C Documentation (DevDocs)

C++

• Courses (GoalKicker)
• Courses (C++ Primer by Lippman on Amazon)
• C++ Documentation (Cpp Reference)

C#

• Guide (Microsoft Doc)
• ASP.NET (Microsoft Doc)
• Dot.Blog Collection (E-Naxos)
• LINQ (Jon Skeet’s coding blog)

Clojure

• Clojure beginner resources (by Yogthos)
• Clojure for the brave and true

Common Lisp

• Practical Common Lisp

Elixir

• Getting started

Git

• Official course

Go

• Basics (Tour Golang)
• To go further (Doc Golang)
• Courses (The Go Programming Language by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan)

Haskell

• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
• Course (University of Pennsylvania)
• Book (Haskell Programming by Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki)
• Interactive tutorial (Try Haskell)
• Book for concrete applications (Real World Haskell by Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart and John Goerzen)
• Documentation

HTML/CSS

• Illustrated tutorial for total beginner (Interneting Is Hard)
• Interactive Tutorial (FreeCodeCamp)
• HTML Courses (GoalKicker)
• CSS Courses (GoalKicker)
• HTML & CSS Tutorial/Courses (Marksheet)
• HTML Documentation (MDN) or Quick Reference (HTML Reference)
• CSS Documentation (MDN) or Quick Reference (CSS Reference)

Java

• Courses (GoalKicker)
• Tutorial/Courses (Java2S)
• Java Documentation (Oracle)
• Interactive Courses (Jetbrains)

Javascript

• Tutorial/Courses (Eloquent JavaScript) or Other Tutorial/Courses (JavaScript.info)
• Interactive Tutorial (LearnJavaScript) or Another one (FreeCodeCamp)
• JavaScript Courses (GoalKicker)
• NodeJS Courses (GoalKicker)
• To go further (You Don’t Know JS)
• JS Documentation (MDN)
• NodeJS Documentation
• Security Supplement (OWASP)
• (FrontendMaster) JavaScript: The Hard Parts
• (FrontendMaster) JavaScript: The New Hard Parts
• (FrontendMaster) JavaScript: The Hard Parts of Object Oriented JavaScript
• (FrontendMaster) Hard Parts: Functional JS Foundations
• (FrontendMaster) The Hard Parts of Servers & Node.js
• (FrontendMaster) JavaScript Performance

Kotlin

• Courses (GoalKicker)
• Kotlin in action (Manning Publication)
• Fundamental Kotlin
• Programming Kotlin (Packt)
• Modern Web Development with Kotlin (LeanPub)
• Guide, book and official references
• Interactive Courses (Jetbrains)

Lua

• Programming in lua (first edition)

OCaml

• Courses (Real World OCaml)

PHP

• Courses (PHP The Right Way) or Other Courses (GoalKicker)
• PHP Documentation
• Security Supplement (OWASP)
• Security Complement, PHP oriented (Paragon Initiative)
• Security Checklist (Sqreen)

Python

Recommended language to start development

• Courses (GoalKicker)
• Python Documentation
• Interactive Courses (Jetbrains)

Ruby

• Ruby Documentation
• Ruby on Rails Documentation

Rust

• Tutorial/Courses
• Rust by Example
• Rust Documentation

Scala

• Scala Documentation
• Tutorial/Introduction
• Course: Functional Programming Principles in Scala (EPFL, Coursera)
• Course: Programming Reactive Systems (EPFL, edX)
• Course: Twitter Scala School
• Scala libraries exercises
• Recommended up-to-date books

SQL

• SQL Courses (GoalKicker)
• MySQL Courses (GoalKicker)
• PostgreSQL Courses (GoalKicker)
• PostgreSQL Documentation Recommended database
• MySQL/MariaDB Documentation
• SQLite Documentation
• Guide to indexes (Use the index luke)

Typescript

• (FrontendMaster) TypeScript 3 Fundamentals, v2

VHDL

• Nandland website (training, examples, exercises)
• Nandland Youtube channel

Text editors

• Visual Studio Code
• Sublime Text
• Brackets Front-end web development oriented

The IDEs

• IntelliJ IDEA Community (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Rust)
• Eclipse
• NetBeans
• PyCharm Community (Python)
• Visual Studio Community (C++, C, Java, HTML/CSS, Javascript) Windows and Mac OS only
• JetBrains As a student, you can benefit of 1 year (renewable) of the entire Jetbrains suite for free from the Github Student Pack or the official website (HTML/CSS, Javascript, C, C++, Ruby, C#, SQL, …)

Developper roadmap

• Backend developper roadmap
• FrontEnd developper roadmap
• Devops roadmap

Sites to avoid

These sites provide a lot of false and/or obsolete information and should not be used

• OpenClassrooms
• W3Schools
• W3Resource

Useful links

These sites are a good source of information for many programming languages.

• Mozilla Developer Network / MDN
• DevDocs
• GoalKicker Free programming books in a lot of languages

Contribute

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License

To the extent possible under law, Adrien Rault has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to awesome-learning-dev-fr. This work is published from: France.

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