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Awesome CS

An awesome list of resources for people excited to learn about computer science!

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LadueCS Google Classroom Join Google Classroom
Stack Overflow Godly resource for looking up questions
LadueCS Codeberg Ladue CS repositories
Discord Ladue CS Discord invite
EbookFoundation/free-programming-books Free programming ebooks
Code.org Coding tutorials
freeCodeCamp Free coding courses
TutorialsPoint Language tutorials. Has tutorials from Machine learning to Mobile Development
W3Schools Language tutorials. Has the world's crappest code editor
Hour of Code Learn how to code when you know absolutely nothing
Codecademy Another learn-how-to-code website
TwilioQuest A cool game to learn programming
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education CS topics that you don't learn in school
Wizard Zines Graphical explanations of CS topics
DigitalOcean Development tutorials

Programiz Playground Fast and free online editor that requires no signup. Works for Python and C.
Replit Great online editor for many programming languages
Gitpod Online IDE that gives you a Linux container where YOU ARE ROOT. ❤️
Visual Studio Code Awesome IDE for many languages (free, works everywhere, highly customizable) (also VSCodium)
Neovim Emacs? More like Ewmacs
Spacemacs Emacs? More like vim(acs) with a good theme. Also, it's really good
Kate Super fast and powerful editor that just worksTM

Intro to Python The bestTM introduction to Python
LearnPython.org Another Python tutorial
Learn Python – Free Python Courses for Beginners#learn-python-full-course-for-beginners More Python tutorials
CodingBat Python Learn Python by solving problems!
Python for Non-Programmers A lot of good resources and tutorials for absolute beginners
The Python Tutorial Want an extra challenge? Try this advanced tutorial
PyCharm Awesome Python IDE for large projects
Python Tutorials A YouTube playlist videos of Python tutorials
Learn Python by Building Five Games - Full Course More Python videos
Python Basics - CodersLegacy A compliation of Python basics
Python Playground A simple Python online interpreter

Scratch Graphical programming language
Godot Engine Easy-to-use 2D and 3D game engine where you write "real" code!
Pygame Python game engine
YouTube: Career advice, live streamed game-jams (aka speedrun making games in 1-4 days)
Minetest A highly hackable and moddable voxel game engine

LadueCS Cybersecurity Google Drive folder with lots of resources
Hacking Isn't Magic Penn State Cybersecurity explanations
Computer Security - Wikipedia A nice overview of cybersecurity
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education A long list of free cybersecurity resources
Cyber Security Base A free course series by University of Helsinki and MOOC.fi
Reddit Some good advice on getting started in cyber security
Hack The Box "A Massive Hacking Playground"
OverTheWire Hacking wargames!

Cryptography - Wikipedia Good overview to find topics that you're interested in learning more about
The Code Book: How to Make It, Break It, Hack It, Crack It The best cryptography book. Very accessible too.
Cryptography Tutorial - tutorialspoint.com Cryptography tutorial
CryptoHack A fun, free platform for learning modern cryptography!

The Linux command line for beginners | Ubuntu A great command line tutorial
Win-KeX | Kali Linux Documentation Kali on WSL setup guide
Kali Linux Tutorial - tutorialspoint.com Kali Linux tutorial for ethical hacking
10 Top Kali Linux Tutorials For Beginners Kali Linux tutorials
Download Ubunto Desktop If you want a fun challenge, try installing Ubuntu on your computer and play around with it!
Ask Ubuntu Basically Stack Overflow for Ubuntu and Linux
ArchWiki Great source for Linux reference
Linux Documentation - die.net Online man pages
openSUSE A great Linux distribution
Debian A reliable Linux distribution
Arch Linux A DIY Linux distribution

Learn C Free interactive C tutorial
C Tutorial - tutorialspoint.com C tutorial
The Descent to C - greenend.org.uk A good guide for people coming from higher-level languages like Python
C++ Programming Tutorials Playlist C++ videos

Neural Networks - 3Blue1Brown A overview and interactive series of neural networks
Nerual networks and deep learning A nice book about neural networks

Conway's Game of Life - copy
Six Degrees of Wikipedia
This X Does Not Exist AI image generators for people, cats, anime, etc. that doesn't exist
Elicit Research assistant using language models
particles.js A Javascript library for creating particles
2048 4d 2048 in 4D
XaoS Real-time interactive fractal zoomer
The Kilobyte's Gambit 1KB chess
AI Dungeon AI generated RPG
Deep Dream API Deep dreaming
AI Experiments - Experiments with Google Miscellaneous AI stuff
AI Demos - BoredHumans More AI stuff
Tone Transfer Transfer sounds as performed by another instrument
Spurious Correlations - tylervigen.com Data dredging
JSLinux - Bellard Linux entirely in your browser
Wolfram Demonstrations Project Wolfram computational demos
The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme - suricrasia.online Only visit this site when you have lots of time because you'll get sucked in!
A better zip bomb - bamsoftware.com Zip BOMBS
Programming Sucks - stilldrinking.org Programming sucks