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Project Based Learning
A list of programming tutorials in which aspiring software developers learn how to build an application from scratch. These tutorials are divided into different primary programming languages. Tutorials may involve multiple technologies and languages.
To get started, simply fork this repo. Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.
Table of Contents:
C#
C/C++
Clojure
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
F#
Go
Haskell
HTML/CSS
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lua
OCaml
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Additional resources
C/C++:
Build an Interpreter (Chapter 14 on is written in C)
Memory Allocators 101 - Write a simple memory allocator
Write a Shell in C
Write a FUSE Filesystem
Build Your Own Text Editor
Build Your Own Lisp
How to Program an NES Game in C
Write an OS from scratch
How to create an OS from scratch
Building a CHIP-8 Emulator
Beginning Game Programming with C++ and SDL
Implementing a Key-Value Store
Tiny 3D graphics projects
Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code
Understandable RayTracing in 256 lines of bare C++
KABOOM! in 180 lines of bare C++
486 lines of C++: old-school FPS in a weekend
Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++
Part 1
Part 2
Build a Live Code-reloader Library for C++
Write a hash table in C
Let's Build a Simple Database
Let's Write a Kernel
Write a Bootloader in C
Linux Container in 500 Lines of Code
Write Your Own Virtual Machine
Learning KVM - Implement Your Own Linux Kernel
Build Your Own Redis with C/C++
Write a C compiler
Part 1: Integers, Lexing and Code Generation
Part 2: Unary Operators
Part 3: Binary Operators
Part 4: Even More Binary Operators
Part 5: Local Variables
Part 6: Conditionals
Part 7: Compound Statements
Part 8: Loops
Part 9: Functions
Part 10: Global Variables
Implementing a Language with LLVM
Meta Crush Saga: a C++17 compile-time game
High-Performance Matrix Multiplication
Space Invaders from Scratch
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Tetris Tutorial in C++ Platform Independent
Writing a Linux Debugger
Part 1: Setup
Part 2: Breakpoints
Part 3: Registers and memory
Part 4: Elves and dwarves
Part 5: Source and signals
Part 6: Source-level stepping
Part 7: Source-level breakpoints
Part 8: Stack unwinding
Part 9: Handling variables
Part 10: Advanced topics
Let's write a compiler
Part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and doing some planning
Part 2: A lexer
Part 3: A parser
Part 4: Testing
Part 5: A code generator
Part 6: Input and output
Part 7: Arrays
Part 8: Strings, forward references, and conclusion
Network programming
Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack
Part 1: Ethernet & ARP
Part 2: IPv4 & ICMPv4
Part 3: TCP Basics & Handshake
Part 4: TCP Data Flow & Socket API
Part 5: TCP Retransmission
Programming concurrent servers
Part 1 - Introduction
Part 2 - Threads
Part 3 - Event-driven
Part 4 - libuv
Part 5 - Redis case study
Part 6 - Callbacks, Promises and async/await
MQTT Broker from scratch
Part 1 - The protocol
Part 2 - Networking
Part 3 - Server
Part 4 - Data structures
Part 5 - Topic abstraction
Part 6 - Handlers
Bonus - Multithreading
Networking from Scratch
OpenGL:
Creating 2D Breakout game clone in C++ with OpenGL
Breakout
Setting up
Rendering Sprites
Levels
Collisions
Ball
Collision detection
Collision resolution
Particles
Postprocessing
Powerups
Audio
Render text
Final thoughts
Handmade Hero
How to Make Minecraft in C++/OpenGL (video)
C#:
Learn C# By Building a Simple RPG Game
Create a Rogue-like game in C#
Create a Blank App with C# and Xamarin (work in progress)
Build iOS Photo Library App with Xamarin and Visual Studio
Building the CoreWiki This is a Wiki-style content management system that has been completely written in C# with ASP.NET Core and Razor Pages. You can find the source code here.
Clojure:
Build a Twitter Bot with Clojure
Building a Spell-Checker
Building a JIRA integration with Clojure & Atlassian Connect
Prototyping with Clojure
Tetris in ClojureScript
Dart:
Flutter:
Amazon Clone with Admin Panel
Food Delivery App
Google Docs Clone
Instagram Clone
Multiplayer TicTacToe Game
TikTok Clone
Ticket Booking App
Travel App
Twitch Clone
WhatsApp Clone
Wordle Clone
Zoom Clone
Netflix Clone
Elixir
Building a Simple Chat App With Elixir and Phoenix
How to write a super fast link shortener with Elixir, Phoenix, and Mnesia
Erlang
ChatBus : build your first multi-user chat room app with Erlang/OTP
Making a Chat App with Erlang, Rebar, Cowboy and Bullet
F#:
Write your own Excel in 100 lines of F#
Java:
Build an Interpreter (Chapter 4-13 is written in Java)
Build a Simple HTTP Server with Java
Build an Android Flashlight App (video)
Build a Spring Boot App with User Authentication
JavaScript:
Build 30 things in 30 days with 30 tutorials
Build a Jupyter Notebook Extension
Build a Simple Weather App With Vanilla JavaScript
Build a Todo List App in JavaScript
HTML and CSS:
Build A Loading Screen
Build an HTML Calculator with JS
Build Snake using only JavaScript, HTML & CSS
Mobile Application:
Build a React Native Todo Application
Build a React Native Application with Redux Thunk
Web Applications:
React:
Create Serverless React.js Apps
Create a Trello Clone
Create a Character Voting App with React, Node, MongoDB and SocketIO
React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp
Build a Full Stack Movie Voting App with Test-First Development using Mocha, React, Redux and Immutable
Build A Simple Medium Clone using React.js and Node.js
Integrate MailChimp in JS
Build A Chrome Extension with React + Parcel
Build A ToDo App With React Native
Make a Chat Application
Create a News App with React Native
Learn Webpack For React
Testing React App With Puppeteer and Jest
Build Your Own React Boilerplate
Code The Game Of Life With React
A Basic React+Redux Introductory Tutorial
Build an Appointment Scheduler
Build A Chat App with Sentiment Analysis
Build A Full Stack Web Application Setup
Create Todoist clone with React and Firebase
Build A Random
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