Projects-from-Scratch

A curated list for projects building from scratch.

Motivation

Thanks to this thread in HN.

Topics

• Compilers and Interpreters

  • Build You Own Lisp, Mr Daniel Holden
  • Crafting Interpreters, Bob Nystrom
  • A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation, David R. Hanson
  • Compiler Construction Using Java, JavaCC, and Yacc, Anthony J. Dos Reis
  • Writing An Interpreter In Go, Thorsten Ball
  • Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours
  • Let's Build a Compiler, Jack Crenshaw
  • Modern Compiler Implementation, Andrew Appel
  • Exploring Programming Language Architecture in Perl, Bill Hails
  • compiler construction and Scheme books, Nils M Holm
  • The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, Daniel G. Bobrow and Gregor Kiczales
  • Writing Compilers and Interpreters: A Software Engineering Approach, Ronald Mak
  • Building an Optimizing Compiler, Bob Morgan
  • Implementing Lisp in Python, Michael Fogus
  • Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter, Ruslan Spivak

• Distributed Systems

  • Distributed Systems for System Architects, Paulo Veríssimo and Luís Rodrigues

• Electronics

  • Make: Analog Synthesizers: Make Electronic Sounds the Synth-DIY Way, Ray Wilson

• Games and graphics

  • Realistic Ray Tracing, Peter Shirley
  • Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7, Aaron A. Reed
  • Handmade Hero, Casey Muratori
  • Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++: Programming a 3d Flight Simulator Using Oop, Michael Radtke
  • Flights of Fantasy: Programming 3d Video Games in C++/Book and Disk, Christopher Lampton
  • Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization, André LaMothe
  • Radiosity: A Programmer's Perspective, Ian Ashdown
  • Game Scripting Mastery, Alex Varanese
  • Developing Games With Ruby, Tomas Varaneckas
  • How to Make an RPG, Daniel Schuller
  • Programming an RTS Game with Direct3D, Carl Granberg
  • How to Make a Game Like Candy Crush, Ray Wenderlich
  • 3D Game Engine Architecture: Engineering Real-Time Applications with Wild Magic, David H. Eberly

• Mobile Apps

  • Learning Swift Building Apps for OS X and iOS, Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jon Manning, Tim Nugent

• Networking

  • Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API, W. Richard Stevens
  • Let’s Build A Web Server, Ruslan Spivak

• Reverse Engineering

  • Hacking the Xbox, Andrew 'bunnie' Huang

• Systems and utilities

  • Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, Charles Petzold
  • The Elements of Computing Systems, Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken
  • Linux From Scratch
  • Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC, Peter Norton
  • gitlet, Mary Rose Cook
  • Redo implementation in Haskell, Chris Forno
  • The Unix Programming Environment, Brian W. Kernighan
  • Programming from the Ground Up, Jonathan Bartlett
  • Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition), Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • Type and Learn C++, Martin L. Rinehart
  • The Craft of Text Editing, Craig A. Finseth
  • Linux Application Development, Michael K. Johnson and Erik W. Troan

• Web

  • Ruby on Rails Tutorial, Michael Hartl
  • Web Development with Go, Jonathan Calhoun
  • Flask Web Development, Miguel Grinberg
  • Test-Driven Development with Python, Harry J.W. Percival
  • Django Unleashed, Andrew Pinkham
  • Eloquent Javascript, Marijn Haverbeke
  • Webapps in Go, Suraj Patil
  • Programming Phoenix Productive |> Reliable |> Fast, Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim
  • F# Applied, Tamizhvendan S
  • Build Your Own AngularJS, Tero Parviainen
  • Rebuilding Rails, Noah Gibbs
  • Elixir in Action, Saša Jurić
  • SurviveJS - Webpack, Juho Vepsäläinen
  • Ember 2 Tutorial, Zoltan
  • Erlang and OTP in Action, Martin Logan, Eric Merritt, and Richard Carlsson
  • Learn to Code HTML & CSS, Shay Howe
  • Robin Wieruch, Robin Wieruch
  • Learning Flask Framework, Matt Copperwaite, Charles Leifer
  • MEAN Web Development, Amos Q. Haviv
  • Django's official tutorial, Django Software Foundation
  • Discover Meteor, Tom Coleman and Sacha Greif
  • Professional Java for Web Applications, Nicholas S. Williams
  • Serverless Single Page Apps, Ben Rady
  • PHP and MySQL by Example, Ellie Quigley and Marko Gargenta
  • Flexible Rails, Peter Armstrong
  • Tango with Django, Leif Azzopardi
  • Learning Flex 4: Getting Up to Speed with Rich Internet Application Design and Development, Alaric Cole and Elijah Robison
  • Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization: Developing, Deploying, and Debugging, John Myles White

• Mics

  • Practical Common Lisp, Peter Seibel
  • The Art of Monitoring, James Turnbull
  • The Little Schemer, Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen
  • The Reasoned Schemer, Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd and Oleg Kiselyov
  • Nim in Action, Dominik Picheta
  • C++ Design Patterns and Derivatives Pricing, M. S. Joshi
  • Take Off With Elixir, Rob Conery
  • Big Nerd Ranch books
  • Automate the boring stuff, Al Sweigart
  • Think Stats 2e, Allen B. Downey
  • The AWK Programming Language, Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan and Peter J. Weinberger

To do

Database and Cryptographics

Contributions

Pull requests and Issues are welcomed!

License

MIT