Best Websites a Programmer Should Visit

Some useful websites every programmer should visit.

When learning Computer Science, there are several essential websites you should know to stay up-to-date, sharpen your skills, and discover new technologies. Here is a carefully curated (but non-exhaustive) list of must-visit resources for programmers. This list is regularly updated, and you’re more than welcome to contribute by suggesting new links! 😉

📖 Index

❓ When you get stuck

  • Codementor : A mentorship community to learn from fellow developers via live 1:1 help and more.
  • devRant : Community where you can rant and release your stress
  • Google : A search engine for anything you get stuck with.
  • Learn Anything : Community curated knowledge graph of best paths for learning anything
  • Quora : A place to share knowledge and better understand the world
  • Stack Overflow : subscribe to their weekly newsletter and any other topic which you find interesting
  • Stack Exchange : Stack Exchange is the combination of Stack Overflow and 170+ sites where you can get any kinds of help
  • Coderanch : A friendly place for programming greenhorns. Jump straight into any of our topics and light hearted discussions. Ranging from Java, Databases, Android, Programmer certification, Programming jobs and much more…

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📰 News

  • ACM TechNews : TechNews
  • AlternativeTo : Crowdsourced software recommendations
  • Ars Technica : Posts unique quality articles on technology, science, politics and society.
  • Better Dev Links : Weekly links to help you become a better developer
  • Better Programming : Featured articles for modern developers available every day
  • CNET : Your guide to a better future! An excellent source of up-to-date tech news.
  • Daily.Dev : A Great Chrome extension which provides recent and relevant tech articles and news
  • DevOpsLinks : An online community of thousands of developers and IT experts interested in DevOps
  • Frontend Focus Newsletter : once-weekly roundup of the frontend news, articles and tutorials
  • GSMArena.com : news related to the latest mobile phones and android.
  • Hacker News Digest : curated automatically, delivered as frequently as you want
  • Hacker News : news aggregator for programmers where civility is king, try a newsletter to get top news to your inbox:
  • Hacker Newsletter : curated by hand, delivered weekly
  • Hacker Noon : How hackers start their afternoons.
  • High Scalability : Success stories of various companies on their apps, infra scaling.
  • Lobsters : Lobsters is a technology-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion.
  • product hunt : Discover your next favorite thing
  • Recode : Tech news that focuses on the business of Silicon Valley
  • Reddit.com/r/programming : Subreddit with aggregated tech news and articles
  • Slashdot : News, Social news (Originally “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters”)
  • Stratechery : Stratechery by Ben Thompson
  • StackShare : See what tools are popular with developers and companies and read about their technology decisions
  • TechCrunch : dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news
  • The DEV Community : Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow.
  • The Verge : More product oriented tech news
  • WCCF Tech : curated news related to Computer Hardware, Software, and everything else in the Tech World.
  • XDA : Android Developers News
  • Hashnode : Hashnode is a friendly and inclusive community for software developers
  • Rekt : A journalism related to Defi, Web3, Blockchain and security on them.
  • Hackaday : Hacking is an art form that uses something in a way in which it was not originally intended.

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📚 Magazines

  • MIT Technology Review : MIT’s tech review magazine.
  • Nautilus : NewYorker for tech.
  • LWN : Weekly news coverage of opensource technologies, programming, etc. (Originally Linux Weekly News).

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👶 Coding practice for beginners

  • Codedex - start your coding adventure : Gamify your learning experience and have fun learning how to code!
  • freeCodeCamp : Learn to code and build projects for nonprofits. Build your full stack web development portfolio today
  • Blackbird School : Learn to code online with our beginner-friendly platform.
  • Glitch : Great place to play around with code in an easy-to-set-up environment.
  • Reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer : interesting programming challenges where you can learn from looking at other’s code, even if you are not able to solve code you can look at how others solved.
  • Programming by Doing : very good site for those who want to start with absolute basics
  • CodeAbbey - a place where everyone can master programming : Best place to begin with problems that start at the easiest and gradually increase difficulty with each problem.
  • Exercism.io : Download and solve practice problems in over 50 different languages, and share your solution with others.
  • InterviewBit/Coding Interview Questions : Gamifies the experience of practicing for your interview and includes lots of sample problems to solve.
  • karan/Projects-Solutions : Solutions to most of the problems in the link above
  • Cave of programming : Learn to program, Upgrade your skills.
  • Vim adventures : Learn VIM by playing
  • Learn Vimscript the Hard Way : Learn Vim Script from beginning to expert.
  • Programming Tasks : Large collection of small programs.
  • Pramp : It’s your turn to be the interviewer. when done, click on the swap roles button on the left
  • Paqmind : Guides and challenges to learn programming
  • Codecademy : Learn to code interactively, for free.
  • Codegym : It contains a Java tutorial with 1200 Java practise tasks.
  • treehouse : The fast, easy, and affordable way to build your skills.
  • GeeksforGeeks : Learn to code, Study for placement, Do competitive coding.
  • edabit : Practice coding via various small challenges.
  • Learn Git Branching : Learn and practice git commands in an interactive way
  • Oh Shit, Git!?! : Cheat sheet to get yourself out of bad git situations
  • The Odin Project : The Odin Project provides a free open source coding curriculum that can be taken entirely online.
  • Udemy : Whether you want to learn or to share what you know, you’ve come to the right place. As a global destination for online learning, we connect people through knowledge.
  • Scaler : A curated interactive space for aspiring programmers to learn and master their coding skills. Also help in job interview.
  • SQL Zoo : Learn SQL interactively in stages, from basic queries to complex operations.
  • SQLTest.online : Boost Your SQL Proficiency with Challenging Problems.

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💰 CryptoCurrency

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💡 For those who want to start a small project but can’t find the ideas

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🗣️ General Coding advice

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🎨 Coding Style

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🛠️ General Tools

  • CoderPad : Quickly Conduct Coding Interviews and Phone Screen Interviews.
  • CodePen : Front End Developer Playground & Code Editor in the Browser
  • CORS-Tester : A tool for developers and API testers to check if an API is CORS-enabled for a given domain and identify gaps
  • Crontab Guru : Quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
  • Devicons : Cheatsheet for devs icons
  • Diagrams.net : Drawing tools to make design and uml easily. Old draw.io
  • FreeFor.Dev : A huge list of free resources and tools
  • Hotkey Cheatsheet : A comprehensive hotkey cheatsheet for popular software and applications
  • Imgur : Online image sharing and image hosting service.
  • Kody Tools : 100+ dev tools including code converters, formatters, and minifiers.
  • Pyrexp : Online regex tester and visualizer for Python.
  • regex101 : Online regex tester and debugger: PHP, PCRE, Python, Golang and JavaScript
  • regexr : Another online tool to learn, build & test Regular Expressions
  • Ray.so : Beautiful code snippet screenshots.
  • Prodia AI Image API : API for open sourced image models
  • Wit AI : Natural Language for Developers
  • SaaS Design : Collection of open source Figma UI design templates for your next project.
  • Seymour : Live Programming for the Classroom
  • Code share : Share code in real-time with other developers
  • Solid Tools for Developers : Online debugging tools for developers and system administrators
  • OS Query : Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows, and macOS infrastructure
  • LaunchPad : Appollo launchepad for testing GraphQl queries
  • GraphOnline : Useful tool for visualizing Graphs
  • Data Structure Visualization : Perfect website for visually learning Algorithms
  • IDE Onlang : Write in one language and get the same result in other languages.
  • JSON Crack : An online open-source tool designed for visualizing data in various languages such as JSON, YAML, CSV, and more.
  • JSONing : Collection of JSON tools, including a formatter, validator, comparator, testers, generators, and a mock API for testing and prototyping.
  • Pad.new : Free cloud-based IDE to run code and databases in almost any language
  • PullRequest : Code review as a service from vetted, professional reviewers
  • Python Visualizer : Watch the execution of basic Python, Java, C++, etc. code step-by-step.
  • Extends Class : Online developer tools: REST and SOAP clients, SQLite browser, testers (Regex, XPath, JSONPath) and other tools
  • Sourcegraph : Online tool for searching millions of open source repositories.
  • SVG Path Editor : Online and open source SVG Path editor.
  • EmailDrop : Emaildrop is a free disposable email provider.
  • Repl.it : Accessible prototyping tool for various needs.
  • KeyBr (Typing Practice) : Easy to use typing practice app.
  • Svgator : Animate svg graphically. Its like a video editor but for svg.
  • Webhook.site : Useful tool for test and debug webhooks.
  • kandi : Jumpstart Application Development by finding the right Open Source resource
  • Svix Play : Webhook tester & debugger.
  • Typeracer : Increase your typing speed while racing against others.
  • Typerush : Increase typing speed while racing.
  • IT-Tools : Collection of handy online tools for developers.

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🐚 Bash and Shell scripting

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🎤 Interview Preparation

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🎬 Documentaries

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🎓 MOOCs for learning something new

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🧑‍💻 Sites related to your preferred programming language (For me C++)

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🤖 Learn AI

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📢 Seminar, research writing, talks, etc

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📦 Everything in one place

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📺 YouTube Channels

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✍️ Good Articles

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🎧 Podcasts

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🔄 Building a Simple Compiler/Interpreter

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🧑‍🏫 Tutorials

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👀 Watch others code

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🧠 What should a programmer know

  • Can I use
  • GitHub.com : Build software better, together
  • GitLab : An alternative to GitHub that offers free unlimited (private) repositories

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⚔️ Competitive programming

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📖 Computer Books

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🔴 Video Tutorials

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💻 Online Compiler and Sharing Code snippets

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📝 Blogs of Developers

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🗣️ For improving your English

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🧘‍♂️ When you get bored from CS related stuff

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🔓 Open Source Websites

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🌱 Internships

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💼 Jobs

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