resources

background

• learn enough command line to be dangerous
• github tutorial
• markdown cheatsheet
• visualize python - online code visualization for python, javascript, C, ...
• N Matloff's unix tutorials

editors

• emacs
• vim
• nano
• notepad++ (windows)
• sublime text (mac)

python

• how to think like a computer scientist - online interactive python textbook
• anaconda distribution - numpy & all the trimmings
• jupyter - a browser notebook environment
• Full Stack Python ... all that related stuff.

C

• K & R : The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition (amazon) (wikipedia) - the standard reference.
• Stanford's Essential C
• c_refcard.pdf - don't leave home without it.
• Jim's examples from the Spring 2016 systems course
• The one true brace style

javascript & the web

• Mozilla web docs - html, css, javascript, and all that
• Eloquent JavaScript
• You Don't Know JS
• Computer Networking: Protocols in Action

git

• Git Magic - how to
• Five key git concepts explained the hard way
• Pro Git book - online free
• Git reference manual

exercises

• Advent of Code
• Project Euler
• Battlecode : an MIT coding competition going on now.
  • 2017 : peruse https://github.com/battlecode

project management & collaboration

• wikipedia: software development
• the mythical man-month
• pair programming
• agile manifesto - a history (The Atlantic)

crypto

• my 2004 crypto notes
• wikipedia
  • portal: crypto
  • cryptology
  • symmetric key
  • public key and RSA
  • hash function

general info

• Copyright and Plagiarism
• Marlboro academics | governance | knowledge base | directory
• wikipedia computer science - areas of study with descriptions