Awesome Developer Resources

A list of links, books, and talks related to development

May the fork be with you

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Contents

• About
  • How to use this guide
  • Prerequisites
• Academic Idols
• Mathematics
  • Probability and Statistics
• Cryptography
• Software Engineering
• Product
• Languages
  • JavaScript
  • Python
• Android
• iOS
• Web Development
• User Interface and User Experience Design
• Security
  • OAuth
• Computer Security
• Networking
• Blockchain
• Virtual Reality
• Artificial Intelligence
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Nets and Deep Nets
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Courses and Tutorials
• Robotics
• Startup
  • Venture Capital

ABOUT

Just a bunch of links and books I found useful

How to use this guide

Prerequisites

Academic Idols

• Richard S. Sutton - Founding Father of Modern Computational Reinforcement Learning
• Geoffrey Hinton - The Godfather of Deep Learning
  • Coursera - Neural Net for Machine Learning
  • CBC - The Current by Design - Interview
• Yann LeCun
  • CILVR Lab @ NYU
  • ICLR 2014
• Yoshua Bengio

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MATHEMATICS

Probability and Statistics

• Introduction to Probability Statistics and Random Processes

CRYPTOGRAPHY

Lectures

• Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar

  Books

• Understanding Cryptography by Christof Paar and Jan Pelzl

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Books

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship by Robert C. Martin
• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition by Steve McConnell
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
• Gang of Four - Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson & John Vlissides
• Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman

*Gang of Four's book might be too heavy for beginners, I recommend getting started with Head First Design Patterns

Links

• A successful Git branching Model by Vincent Driesse

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PRODUCT

User Onboarding

• UserOnboard

LANGUAGES

JavaScript

• Tutorials Point: JavaScript Tutorial

Python

• Tutorials Point: Python Tutorial

ANDROID

Courses

• Udacity: Developing Android Apps - Android Fundamentals

Tutorials

• Android Hive

Libraries

Frameworks

iOS

• Udemy Class

WEB DEVELOPMENT

ReactJS

• The Road to React

USER INTERFACE AND USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN

Courses

• Udacity: UX Design for Mobile Developers

SECURITY

• University Course: Dr. Bill Young Foundations of Computer Security

OAuth

• OAuth 2.0 Tutorial by Jakob Jenkov

NETWORKING

• Datmouth Course: Computer Networks -- want to program the Internet? by Andrew T. Campbell
• Slide Deck: Examples of Peer-to-Peer Applications
• BitTorrent Paper
• Gnutella Protocol

BLOCKCHAIN

Books

• Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies
• Princeton's Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Overview

• Bitcoin's Whitepaper
• Bitcoin's Developer Documentation
• Bitcoin's Developer Reference
• Bitcoin's GitHub Organization
• Bitcoin's Wiki
• Bitcoin's IRC Channels
• Bitcoin: Choose Your Wallet
• MultiChain - Blockchain Parameters
• Monax | Explainers: Blockchain Core Concepts and Smart Contracts

Smart Contracts

Ethereum

• (2016) DEVCON1: Understanding the Ethereum Blockchain Protocol - Vitalik Buterin
• (2016) R3CEV | Ethereum: Platform Review - Opportunities and Challenges for Private and Consortium Blockchain by Vitalik Buterin
• (2016) R3CEV | Ethereum Paper Executive Summary by Kathleen Breitman and Richard Gendal Brown
• Ethereum Design Rationale
• Ethereum VM & Execution Environment Overview
• (2016) YouTube: Introduction to Ethereum Smart Contract Development with Solidity (Part 1)
• (2016) YouTube: Introduction to Ethereum Smart Contract Development with Solidity (Part 2)
• Introduction to Smart Contracts
• Solidity in Depth - Contracts
• StackExchange: Where can I find some Solidity / Smart Contract source code examples?
• Technical Introduction to Events and Logs in Ethereum

Tools

• Truffle - A Development Framework for Ethereum
• Truffle: Interacting with your contracts
• Truffle: Running Migrations
• testrpc - A Node.js based Ethereum client for testing and development

StackOverflow Questions

• How will regular users be able to use dApps without buying ether?

DApps, Apps and Stuff

• Ethereum Light Wallet: HD wallet that can store your private keys encrypted in the browser to allow you to run Ethereum dapps even if you're not running a local Ethereum node
• Ethereum Whisper: How to Whisper
• Authentication: BlockOne ID - Thomson Reuters Authentication/Entitlements Framework

Notable News Articles

• (2015) - The Economist: The Trust Machine
• (2016) - The Wall Street Journal: CIO Explainer: What Is Blockchain?

Security

• (01-2016) - Blockchain Security Implications for the Industrial Internet

Loyalty Programs

VIRTUAL REALITY

Lectures

• Virtual Reality by Steven LaValle

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Reinforcement Learning

• Richard S. Sutton - Founding Father of Modern Computational Reinforcement Learning
• Dan Silver's Reinforcement Learning Course

Books

• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (DRAFT)

Nets and Deep Nets

• Deep Learning Summer School
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning
• Deep Learning site

Books

• Artificial Intellgence: A Moder Approach 3rd Edition by Stuart Russel and Peter Norveig
• Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Books

• Speech and Language Processing 3rd Edition Draft by Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin
  • Speech and Language Processing 2nd Edition Draft by Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin

Courses and Tutorials

• EdX: Artificial Intelligence by Dan Klein and Peter Abbeel - UC Berkeley
• Coursera: Machine Learning by Andrew Ng
• CMU: Andrew W Moore's Set of Tutorials on Foundations of Probability, Statistics, ML and Data Mining Algos

  Blogs

• Andrej Karpathy

Tools and Frameworks

• Tensorflow
• Theano
• Caffe
• Torch
• scikit-learn
• Deeplearning4j

Notable News Articles

• (2015) - arsTechnica: Debunking the biggest myths about artificial intelligence
• (2015) - Business Insider: The 3 biggest misconceptions about artificial intelligence, according to Facebook's expert - Yann LeCun
• (2015) - Bloomberg: Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence
• (2015) - Bloomberg: Computers Learn How to Paint Whatever You Tell Them To
• (2015) - Jason Kottke: Taking a neural net out for a walk

ROBOTICS

• Robot Web Tools: A Collection of Open-Source Modules and Tools for Building Web-Based Robot Apps

Arduino

• Serial Input Basics

Books (General)

• Spring Handbook of Robotic
• Modelling and control of robot manipulators by Sciavicco, Lorenzo, Siciliano, Bruno
• Introduction to Robotics: Analysis, Control, Applications 2nd Edition by Saeed B. Niku
• Robot Modeling and Control by Mark W. Spong, Seth Hutchinson and M. Vidyasagar

Books (Motion Planning)

• Planning Algorithms by Steven LaValle

Books (Autonomous Robots)

• Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series) 2nd Edition by Roland Siegwart

Books (Vision)

• Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in MATLAB (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) by Peter Corke

ROS

• ROS: Lidar - Velodyne
  • ROS: Velodyne - Getting Started
  • Velodyne Calibration Data
  • Velodyne Calibration Debuggin
  • Velodyne HDL-32E IP Address
• ROS DRCSIM

Velodyne Trick Tips

• Use Wireshark to get source IP Address
• If sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.100 doesn't work use: sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.255
• Source IP for my test LIDAR was: sudo route add 192.168.1.201 eth
• Make sure you check the stati IP assignment works: ifconfig -a
  • You can the static IP and set the route while Gazebo is running
• Use: ip route list to check assigned IP routes

XBOX One Kinect

• ROS Answers: Anyone using the new XBOX One Kinect?

Troubleshooting

• From Jade back to Indigo - You Might Encounter Some Issues
• rosdep init Issue
• Q: Ubuntu logs in and out after driver installation, A: Purge Nvidia drivers and reinstall

Other causes might be due to the .Xauthority file, or lightdm

AskUbuntu: I am logged out immediately after logging in..

It might be helpful to check the .xsession-errors file.

$ vi ~/.xsession-errors

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STARTUP

Venture Capital

• Sequoia Capital: Writing a Businesss Plan
• Sequoia Capital: Preparing a Board Deck

Courses

• Udacity: How To Build A Startup by Steve Blank