CS 101

Awesome collection of some of the best resources online for Computer Science.
Contributions are welcome.

The guide contains the following sections:

• Beginner

  • Absolute Beginners
  • Kickstart Projects
  • Competitive Coding
  • Curated Curriculum
  • Free Online Courses

• Intermediate

  • Web Development
  • Mobile Development
  • Databases
  • Game Development
  • Open Source
  • Software Development

• Advanced

  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Augmented Reality
  • Cyber Security
  • DevOps

• Developer Programs

  • Technical Student/Developer Programs
  • Summer Student Programs
  • Winter Student Programs
  • Women In Tech Programs
  • Annual Hackathons

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Beginner

Absolute Beginners

• CS50 - Introduction to Computer Science by Harvard University on edX.
• CS 101 - Udacity's Intro to Computer Science.
• The New Boston - Programming tutorials by Bucky Roberts.
• Google Tech Dev Guide - Grow your technical skills with Google.

Kickstart Projects

• Practice Programs
• Project Ideas
• 100 Days of Code Challenge
• Project Based Learning
• Rapid API - World's top APIs for all kinds of tasks.

Competitive Coding

• Codechef
• HackerRank
• HackerEarth

Curated Curriculum

For people interested in following a university like curriculum.

• Computer Science - Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!
• Machine Learning - Learn Machine Learning in 3 Months.
• Deep Learning - Learn Deep Learning in 6 Weeks.
• Data Science - Path to a free self-taught education in Data Science!

Free Online Courses

The following websites feature some of the best resources available online for learning topics related to Computer Science.

• Udacity
• Coursera
• edX
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Microsoft Docs
• Microsoft Virtual Academy

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Intermediate

Web Development

• CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript
• Free Code Camp
• Udacity: Intro to HTML and CSS
• Udacity: Intro to JavaScript
• Create your personal website/blog
  • Jekyll
  • Hugo
  • Wordpress
• React
  • Global client state management
  • Global server state management

Mobile Development

• Google's Mobile Courses
• CS50's Mobile App Development with React Native

Databases

• Kaggle SQL Summer Camp

Game Development

• CS50's Introduction to Game Development
• Unity 3D
• Godot Engine - Godot uses GDScript, which is similar to Python
• Love - Create 2D games in Lua
• libGDX - Cross-platform game development in Java
• pygame - Python library built on top of SDL
• Phaser - Desktop and mobile HTML5 game framework

Open Source

• Up For Grabs - List of projects which have curated tasks specifically for new contributors.
• issuehub.io - Contribute to Open Source. Search issue labels to find the right project for you!
• First Timers Only - Friendly Open Source projects should reserve specific issues for newbies.
• Your First PR - Start contributing to Open Source with great starter issues on GitHub and elsewhere.
• Awesome First PR Opportunities - A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.
• Codetriange - Help out your favorite open source projects and become a better developer while doing it.
• Pull Request Roulette - Pull requests (or PRs) submitted for review.
• Codetribute - Find your first code contribution with Mozilla.
• What Can I Do For Mozilla

Software Development

• .NET
  • Entity Framework Core

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Advanced

Machine Learning

• Coursera - Machine Learning by Andrew NG using Matlab.
• Udacity - Intro to ML using Scikit-Learn.
• Google - Machine Learning Crash Course using Tensorflow.
• YouTube - Machine Learning Recipes with Josh Gordon.
• Foundations of Machine Learning - 30 lecture training course by Blooomberg.

Deep Learning

• Fast.ai - 7 week course on Practical Deep Learning
• Udacity
• Coursera
• Google Code Labs - TensorFlow and deep learning, without a PhD

Data Science

• Learning From Data - Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech
• Programming with Python for Data Science - Microsoft
• Kaggle - Data Science competitions
• Data Science Tutorial

Artificial Intelligence

• Elements of AI
• Udacity - Intro to AI by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun
• Microsoft AI School
• Microsoft AI Professional Program
• AI Adventures - Video series by Google Cloud Platform
• edX - Berkeley's CS 188, offered through edX

Augmented Reality

• Google ARCore

Cyber Security

• Cybrary

DevOps

• Docker
• OpenShift
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins

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Developer Programs

Technical Student/Developer Programs

• Alexa Student Influencers
• Dell Campassadors
• Facebook Developer Circles
• GitHub Campus Experts
• Google Developer Experts
• Google Developer Student Clubs
• HackerEarth Campus Ambassadors
• HackerRank Campus Ambassadors
• KPMG Ambassadors
• Microsoft Student Partners
• Mozilla Campus Clubs
• Mozilla Tech Speakers
• Mozilla Reps
• Skillenza Campus Hustlers
• Unity Student Ambassadors

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Summer Student Programs

• IISc Summer School
• Google Summer of Code
• Google Season of Docs
• Crio Summer of Doing
• IITR Spark
• FossAsia OpenSource

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Winter Student Programs

• Kharagpur Winter of Code

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Women In Tech Programs

• Google's Women Techmakers
• Django Girls
• Outreachy
• Learn IT, Girl!

Annual Hackathons

A list of annually conducted major hackathons and developer centric initiatives, sorted in chronological order of registration period.

• Feb: Google Kick Start - Algorithmic challenges designed by Google engineers.
• Mar: Google Code Jam - Solve algorithmic problems in a fixed amount of time.
• Jul: Microsoft Imagine Cup - Resolve some of the world's toughest challenges with technology.
• Sep: NASA Space Apps Challenge - International mass collaboration focused on space exploration.
• Oct: DigitalOcean Hacktoberfest - Support open source and earn a limited edition T-shirt.
• Nov: GitHub Game Off - Spend one month creating games based on a theme.
• Dec: 24 Pull Requests - Contribute to projects for 24 days leading up to christmas.