Read This, Not That

General

The Great Divide by Chris Coyier, CSS-Tricks, 1/2019.
- One major ongoing difficulty in the development industry is the morphing of multiple positions into a single position – while there were historically front-end developers, back-end developers, and so on this has unified around full-stack developers who use JS on both the front and back ends.
- Along with many others Coyier suggests that this attempt to unify all tech under a single position leads to poor quality products. Chris’ emphasis is a bit more on front-end development and the split within this realm (between JS and HTML/CSS/design principles), but I think it portrays the underlying dichotomy of JS vs all well.
Matt Adesanya’s A Gentler Introduction to Programming on freeCodeCamp. 10/2017.
Zell Liew’s How to Think Like a Programmer on freeCodeCamp. 9/2017.

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab)
- Covers the shell, shell tools and scripting, editors (vim), data wrangling, command-line environment, version control (git), debugging, profiling, metaprogramming, security, cryptography, and a potpourri of other subjects.

What Is Node and When Should I Use It? by James Hibbard, SitePoint, 1/2018.
- A high level overview of Node.js including some basic code. A good first read.
Understanding How Node.js Release Lines Work by Tierney Cyren, NodeSource, 5/2018.
- Helpful in understanding what versions of Node you should be using and covers some terminology and practices that are used by the development community at large.

Create New Express.js Apps in Minutes with Express Generator by Paul Sauve, SitePoint, 5/2018.
- If you just want a brief overview, this might be a good place to start.

Introducing Ionic 4: Ionic for Everyone by Max Lynch, Ionic Framework, 1/2019.
- Provides some helpful insight on the past, present, and future of Ionic.

Run Multiple Isolated Web Applications on Containers with a Single IP for Free by Jeremy Cheng. ITNEXT, 3/2018.
- Explains how to place an nginx proxy in front of multiple containers running independent websites on a single system (e.g. VM/VPS).

Functional Programming Primer by Joseph Rex. X-Team, 3/2017.
- A pretty basic introduction to FP, part of a series.