Links to useful resources for devs

Developers usually have their own stash of resources from which they learn or use in their work. I have acquired good links to resources online and offline over the years that might benefit devs of all ages. I am going to be sharing them here and any passer-by can contribute to this just by forking this file to help others.

Courses

Links here are to sites that have full-fledged courses on different topics, frameworks and languages.

• CodeSchool - Interactive | Videos | Web | Freemium
• CodeAcademy - Interactive | APIs | User Created Tutorials | Free
• Microsoft Virtual Academy - Videos | Vendor-specific | Hands-on | Certificate | Free
• Dash - Interactive | Web | Free
• New Circle - Videos | Freemium
• Pluralsight - Videos | Freemium
• LearnStreet - Interactive | Videos | Web | Free
• Coding For Good - Quiz | Videos | Web | Free
• SkilledUp - Search Engine
• SlideRule - Search Engine
• Udemy - Videos | Freemium | Certificates
• RubyMonk - Interactive | Free
• LearnYouNode - Interactive | Offline | Free
• TagTree - Interactive | Free
• Learn Git Branching - Interactive | Free
• Git-It - Interactive | Free | Offline
• Platzi - Free | Online | Video | Live
• freeCodeCamp - Free | Online | Video | Interactive
• CodeAvengers - Free | Online | Interactive
• Level-up Tutorials - Free | Online | Video
• RegexOne - Free | Interactive | Online
• SqlBolt - Free | Interactive | Online
• Hacksplaining - Free | Interactive | Online
• KataCoda - Free | Interactive | Online
• Saylor Academy - Free | Online
• Educative.io - Freemium | Online
• Scala-Exercises - Free | Online | Interactive

Collections

Like these ones, there are more collections of useful dev links out there.

• SuperHeroJS - Learning JS inside and out
• Bento - Resourceful links to all things web
• HTML5 Rocks - HTML5 and Web Techs
• AngularJS-Learning - Butt-load of learning material on AngularJS!
• Resources - Resources to front-end learning and tooling
• Coderbits - Links to several useful learning materials and tools
• HTML5 Please - HTML5 and CSS3 support cross-browser, alternatives and fallbacks
• Cheatography - Cheat sheets available for most programming needs
• Javascript: The Right Way - Guide for best practices
• Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide - Thousands of star gazers say that this style guide for JS is quite solid
• Javascript Glossary - Concise Javascript guide
• ProgrammingAlgorithms - Collection of Algorithms on multiple languages
• PencilTree - Collection of videos on multiple technologies
• Free ASP.NET Courses - Collection of free courses for ASP.NET

Videos

Loads of screencasts and videos on various topics.

• Thinkster - AngularJS Tutorial
• EggHead - Digestible screencasts on JS libs and tools
• LearnAllTheNodes - Nodejs screencasts
• NodeTuts - Nodejs video tutorials
• CommunityCasts - A community-driven free archive of educational, tech and creative screencasts

Books

Old school style learning offline and online.

• Zapier - Who better to teach APIs then Zapier
• JS Books - Links to almost all free JS books online and for offline reading

Tutorials

Articles and tutorials on many topics with code

• Scotch.io - Beautiful site and well-written tutorials on mainly web techs
• SitePoint - Articles and tutorials written on various topics and some with code
• Tech.PRO - Social network for techies demonstrating their knowledge through coding posts
• OdeToCode - Mostly on ASP.NET and JS
• Codrops - Mind blowing tutorials on unique and interactive UI elements and styling
• TutsPlus - Tutorials on most web techs out there
• Rosetta Code - Learn by solving tasks; Answers in multiple languages
• BlackWasp - Huge array of C# articles, tips and tricks

Challenges

• Coding Mystery - Exciting escape-room-inspired programming puzzles
• CodinGame - Play turn based games using programming skills
• CodeCombat - Multiplayer coding game
• CodeChef - Community of programmers solving progamming problems
• CodeHunt - Educational coding game with C#
• Codewars - Solve katas to earn ranks
• TestForGeeks - Questions for self-assessment
• Codetoki - Collect badges by solving problems
• TalentBuddy - Solve problems on multiple tracks
• HackerRank - Coding challenges. Community. Awesome jobs
• CoderByte - Solve algorithmic problems or program bots for games
• Screeps - MMO for programmers
• exercism.io - Practice. Communicate. Pay it Forward.
• CodeFights - Improve coding skills while having fun
• AdventOfCode - Solve small programming puzzles
• EmpireOfCode - Play the future
• CheckIO - Game for coders
• LeetCode - Preparing for technical interviews
• edabit - Learn to code with interactive challenges

Tools

• BuiltWith - Ever wonder what particular techs were used to build a web app or site? Well, find out!
• attachables - Revamped TODOs for Visual Studio
• Shapeshifter - Hands down the best clipboard manager for Windows
• Gisto - Code Snippet management in the form of Gists
• Plunker - Better than its competitors e.g. JSFiddle and JSBin
• .NET Fiddle - Write, save, execute and share .NET code right from the browser
• cmder - Portable console emulator for Windows
• Docs - Simple tool to curate online resources for a particular topic
• Zeal - Offline API documentation browser for most popular frameworks and libs
• DevDocs - Offline and Online API documentation browser for most open-source frameworks and libs
• CodeShare - Real-time code sharing and hacking
• CodeBeautify - Whole lot of code formatting and conversion online
• Postman - Best way possible to test API development
• Octotree - Browser extension to see GitHub repos in a tree structure
• Marxico - The missing Markdown editor for Evernote
• Astral - Manage GitHub star repositories easily
• Mocky - Mock API responses with multitude of options
• SqlFiddle - Write, save, execute and share SQL right from the browser
• CodingGround - Code in almost all popular languages
• Indent Guides - Adds vertical lines at each indent level
• jQAPI - What jQuery documentation should have been. Available as desktop and offline app.
• JSApp.US - Make Node.js apps on-the-fly!
• HyperDev - Developer playground for building full-stack web apps, fast
• RunKit - Node playground in the browser
• HTTPBin - Endpoints to test out with HTTP
• RequestBin - Inspect HTTP requests sent to it
• Scastie - An interactive playground for Scala

Hosting

• Somee.com - The best and most up-to-date hosting for free (Windows)
• OpenShift - Best free Linux-based hosting with Git
• AppHarbor - Best free Windows-based hosting with Git
• GitLab - Free and unlimited private and public repos with most essential GitHub like features