Cool Resources.md

Essential Must-Know Cool Things

Reference, Tutorial & Resources sites

General

• Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
• Stack Overflow
• Sitepoint
• TutsPlus
• W3 Schools (W3 Fools)

JavaScript

• Eloquent JavaScript
• JS for Cats

CSS

• CSS Tricks
• Smashing Magazine
• 24Ways

PHP

• PHP.net

Week 1 Material

• Become a programmer (Video)
• Web Content (Video)
• Apache on Mac
• Styleguide for HTML and CSS
• Free GitHub account for .edu
• How technologies are related
• Chrome Canary
• Seriously, Just Make a JSFiddle
• Some nice backgrounds
• Subtle Patterns
• Chrome Keystrokes
• CSS Almanac
• Explain CSS Selectors as I write them

Cool Beginner Articles

• Multiple CSS Backgrounds
• Introduction to jQuery
• JavaScript Basics
• jQuery: Manipulating Elements

Git and GitHub

• GitHub's Official Tutorial
• Git Cheat Sheet
• Git for grown ups

Beginning JavaScript

• Common Mistakes
• Best Practices

Good to know

• Why Hiring is so Hard in Tech - What the tech industry is doing wrong interviewing developers and how you can stand out.
• Naming things is hard
• Top 10 Mistakes Web Developers Make
• 5 ways to not shoot yourself in the foot with CSS
• The 3 Big Myths that Are Holding Back America's Internet
• What it takes to build a website
• Technical Debt 101
• Types of Polling / Sockets (Advanced HTTP)
• Gif vs. Jpeg vs. Png
• Label and Name Input Property
• History of the Internet (Video)

Interview Questions

• Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions

User Interface (UI)

• Dribbble (for design ideas)
• Some Good UI tips
• "Full Screen Sections" with CSS
• Understanding Web UI Visual Hierarchy
• Label Placement on Forms
• 7 Rules for creating gorgeous UI Part I
• 7 Rules for creating gorgeous UI Part II

Just Cool Things

• Live Reload
• Google's new "noCAPTCHA"
• FavIcon Generator
• CSS Specificity Calculator
• XSS Game
• Google Hangouts

Advanced CSS Tools

• CSS clip-path maker
• Animate.css
• Scroll Magic
• Reveal Animations when you scroll
• Animated Background Gradient Generator
• Animated Headlines
• CSS-only Parallax
• Flow Up Labels

CSS Opinions

• Defending Presentational Class Names
• A take on OOCSS

Advanced Articles & Videos

• The CSS that you know nothing about
• CSS Blend Modes - The Next Big Thing
• Adobe - CSS Blend Modes
• Brad's CSS Methodologies talk in San Fran.
• Comprehensive list of polyfills
• Deep Dive into jQuery with Paul Irish
• Two way data binding in native JS
• CSS Triangles
• JavaScript Performance
• Interview with Paul Irish
• Inspiration for Dialog Events
• JSON Hijacking

Computer Science

• What every programmer should know about floating points
• JavaScript Events, Heap, and Stack

Brad's Gists

• OS X Yosemite Apache Environment Setup
• OS X Mavericks Apache Environment Setup
• Ubuntu Apache Environment Setup
• Comprehensive JavaScript
• Event Binding in jQuery
• Ubuntu IP Tables
• Get Instagram Images via JavaScript
• PHP Singleton Example

APIs

• Google Maps
• PHP WkHtmlToPdf

People to follow (these are the people to be aware of in the front-end development world)

• Brendan Eich - Created JavaScript
  • Twitter
• Addy Osmani (Google) App architecture expert, Chrome dev tools champion
  • [Google+]
  • [Twitter]
• Paul Irish (Google) Developer evangelist, Chrome dev tools champion
  • [Google+]
  • [Twitter]
• Ilya Grigorik (Google)
  • [Google+]
  • [Twitter]
• Alex Russell (Google)
  • [Google+]
• Chris Coyier (CSS Tricks)
  • [Google+]
  • [Twitter]
• Nicholas C. Zakas - Author, speaker
  • [Google+]
  • Twitter
• Nicolas Gallagher (Twitter)
• David Walsh (Mozilla)
  • [Google+]
  • [Twitter]
• Nicole Sullivan
  • [Google+]
• Ben Alman
  • [Google+]
• Eric Bidelman (Google)
  • [Google+]
  • [Twitter]
• Rob Dodson (Google)
  • [Google+]
  • [Twitter]
• Mark Otto (GitHub)
  • [Google+]
• Hugo Giraudel
  • [Google+]
  • [Twitter]
• Sindre Sorhus
  • [Google+]
  • [Twitter]
• Angus Croll - Author, "If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript"
  • Twitter
• Axel Rauschmayer - ES Next evangelist, author
  • Twitter
• David Herman - Author, "Effective JavaScript"
  • Twitter
• David Nolen - Great functional programming content
  • Twitter
• Eric Elliott - JavaScript architect, instructor.
  • Twitter
• Jafar Husain - Great talks on RxJS, ES next, etc...
  • Twitter
• James Halliday - aka Substack - author of Node modules you probably use.
  • Twitter
• James Long (Mozilla) CSP, functional programming advocate
  • Twitter
• Jordan Harband - Keeping us ahead of the JS curve
  • Twitter
• Kyle Simpson - Author, JS Instructor, open web evangelist
  • Twitter
• Marijn Haverbeke - Author, "Eloquent JavaScript"
  • Twitter
• Nick Morgan - Author, "JavaScript for Kids"
  • Twitter
• Reginald Braithwaite - Author, "JavaScript Allongé", speaker, PagerDuty
  • Twitter
• Nicolas Bevacqua - Author "JavaScript Application Design", Speaker, Open-Source Evangelist
  • Twitter