Resources

In the future, I'll make a blog post on how you can become a productive software engineer faster

A developer without an understanding of their environment is a carpenter without the knowledge of his workshop.

Some things you should know before coding are:

- PATH: What is it, how is it used, and how to modify it

- Linux: how to make a file executable

- Terminal: how to launch one on your OS with only your keyboard

Improving your Environment

An IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment (Code Editor), not relevant to know this though

Visual Studio Code: Multi-Purpose IDE

My VsCode Setup

Visual Studio (C#, ASP.NET, WinUI, and C++)

macOS Setup
Windows Terminal
Just: project-specific command runner

Just provides a cross-platform, cross-IDE, cross-project for consistent tooling
My VsCode extension for justfile task integration

Intro to Programming

Python: Intuitive Beginner-Friendly Language
CS Circles: Learn Python
After learning Python, learn the difference between set, dict, list and learn about generators in Python
learn about the argparse module and create a sample terminal app with support for boolean flags and --flag arg
learn pip

Starting new projects

Read relevant awesome lists

The Copenhagen Book Git: Version Control System (Code History)

Git Cheat Codes

Signing git commits with ssh keys.
- Assuming you already have an ssh key
- git config --global gpg.format ssh
- git config --global user.signingkey C:\Users\maste\.ssh\id_ed25519.pub
fix CRLF on Windows
- Use LF line endings in your IDE (if you use Windows)
- Set autocrlf to input (check-out as is, check-in as is)git config --global core.autocrlf input
- If you have already checked out some repositories, ensure you have no unchanged changes and run:git rm --cached -r . && git reset --hard
diff3
Although you can use git apply for patch files, you can also simply paste the diff after running
git apply -
To print only the current branch name
git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
To reorder and squash commits
- Ensure you do not have the default branch checked out
- git rebase --interactive $UNTOUCHED_COMMIT
  if you want to rebase the last n commits (2 in my case), you can run git rebase -i HEAD^^ where the number of ^ corresponds to n
- In the editor that opens up, use squash to merge a commit with its predecessor
- git push --force
If you are on a non-collaborating branch, and want to group your changes (committed and working) differently,
- First pick a commit you don't want to touch
- git reset $UNTOUCHED_COMMIT
  If you are resetting to the local HEAD of the branch you are merging from, you can use this instead
  git reset $(git log main --format=%H | head -1)
- Commit your changes as desired
- git push --force
If you want to sync with a remote branch that had its history rewritten (e.g. coworker force pushed) and you have commits on local but not on the remote (i.e. git rebase --hard will not work). --hard gets rid of your local commits.
git reset --hard "@{u}"
Shows reference logs of commits that were updated to the repository
git reflog --before=2024-10-23T21:41:24.107351Z
Git Trailers (reading)
Make a shell file executable once it has been staged or committed
git update-index --chmod=+x foo.sh
Updating the date of an commit amendment (commit --amend).
- Linux
  git commit --amend --date "$(date -R)"
- Windows & MacOS
  git commit --amend --date "$(date)"
See remote info, including the default branch
git remote show origin
Changing the remote origin (useful for when you clone before you fork)
git remote remove origin ; git remote add origin https://github.com/elibroftw/RSSHub
Reset a file to a commit SHA
git checkout $COMMIT_SHA -- path/to/file
Revert the last 3 commits in a single commit (avoids reverting manually in reverse)
git revert --no-commit HEAD~3..

GitHub Desktop: GUI for git

I recommend learning to do everything within an IDE like VSCode

Full Stack / CRUD Developer

Database: PostgreSQL, use a managed PostgreSQL in production.

Backend: ASP.NET Core. Great performance, and comes with a lot of DX out of the box

When creating an ASP.NET project, use the dotnet CLI to select the WebAPI template for SPAs or the Web App template for Razor pages

If you use another backend framework, make the responses are as expected if the database restarts

You can install .NET either through Visual Studio C# Dev Kit, dotnet.microsoft.com, or Visual Studio

Frontend: use Vite to create a React orSolidJS TypeScript project combined with Inertia so that you are free to use any backend and still get server-side rendering for your single-page apps. Alternatively you can use Astro + API or the native SSR framework like Razor pages, Handlebars, htmx, Jinja2

I'll create a template/instructions to demonstrate what I mean
Inertia.js ASP.NET Adapter
Inertia.js Rust Adapter
The example code for inertia-rust is for Axum, and uses node-server (instead of bun), but we/you should be able to be easily used in other frameworks like xitca-web

You need to learn basic SQL while working on a project

Project idea: SSR blogging website with database schema upgrades and production deployments

Other Web Development (Frontend) Thoughts

Twitter meta tags
Responsive Web Design
The Checkbox Hack: My website's mobile navbar
React (JSX): A JavaScript framework for creating complex UIs

Systems Programming

Desktop Apps

For one codebase and cross-platform, you can go with Tauri or Avalonia

Tauri & React Template Avalonia: crossplatform .NET desktop programming

When you need to use some specific APIs per operating system, I would suggest using a webview that uses a bridge to the native technology

Windows: WinUI 3
macOS: SwiftUI
QT: QT
GTK: GTK

Mobile Apps

Don't use react-native. Use Kotlin Jetpack Compose for Android and SwiftUI for iOS

You will need Android Studio and if targeting iOS you will also need a Macbook to install XCode

C & C++

Although no great tutorials exist that I know of, C & C++ is essential to this day
Visual Studio: Windows C++ IDE and Compiler
Clang: C & C++ Compiler
GCC compiler for Windows
Make for Windows
Conan: C and C++ package manager

Video Game Development

DevOps

DigitalOcean [VPS]
Vultr [VPS]
Ubicloud: open-source AWS

Software for Software Development

docs: docusaurus Divvi Up Arcade: interactive software demoing Interview coders: no one likes leetcode interviewing