Links to sites that we recommend. Please let the me know if you find any other useful resources and we will be glad to add it to this list.

Duke Resources

• Roots Courses are short useful courses hosted by Duke's Innovation Co-Lab
• DukeGPT is a secure, university-managed platform to explore and compare advanced AI models
• Duke OIT Software Library provides general software licensed for Duke Students
• Duke Innovation Co-Lab supports tech all over campus during these Office Hour times

Sharing Your Work and Respecting Others Efforts

• Creative Commons
• Best Practices for Attributing Work
• Defining the Most Common Types of Open Source License
• How to find free-to-use images with Google Search

Markdown

• Manual to the Web's Simplest Plain-Text Syntax
• Converting Markdown into (almost) any other document format
• Enabling Markdown directly within Google Docs

Agile Programming Process

• Manifesto for Agile Software Development
• Agile Software Development: A gentle introduction
• Scrum Guide
• Scrum Reference
• Scrum Patterns

LLMs/ChatGPT

• Primary GitHub Copilot site (free for students)
• GitHub Copilot Labs to improve your Code Quality and Productivity from Microsoft
• Guide to Using ChatGPT Prompts for Coding Tasks from LearnPrompt.org
• The Art of ChatGPT Prompting by Fatih Kadir Akın
• Ultimate ChatGPT Resource Guide (a very deep dive)
• ChatGPT: The Good, The Bad, The Ethical And Legal Implications by Moshood Yahaya
• ChatGPT: Old AI problems in a new guise, new problems in disguise by Ridoan Karim
• What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram

Programming Tools

• GIT, a tool for managing shared code development
  • Visual GIT Reference
  • Quick Reference
  • W3 Schools GIT Tutorial
  • Books
    • Learn Enough GIT to Be Dangerous by Michael Hartl
    • Think Like (a) Git - A Guide for the Perplexed by Sam Livingston-Gray
    • Pro GIT book (comprehensive reference)
  • Best Practices
    • Branching and Merging
    • Creating and Approving Merge Requests
    • Understanding the Git Work Flow
    • Issues/Tagging Workflow
    • How to undo (almost) anything with Git by Joshua Wehner and as a decision tree
  • Visual GIT demo and game!
• Command Line
  • Basic Commands Reference (based on Git Bash for Windows)
  • Quick Reference
  • Tutorial for Beginners
  • Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous by Michael Hartl
  • Some Favorite Command Line Tricks
  • The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond (a very deep dive)

Humor

• Commit Strip (comic strips)
• Dev Humor (comics and memes)
• The Daily WTF (blog posts)
• TechLead (videos)
• xkcd (general science comic strips, but also programming)

Quotes

• Bumper-sticker Computer Science
• Perlis Epigrams
• Rich Pattis' quote collection

Programming Blogs

• Successful Software
• Software for Good
• Joel on Software
• The Programmer's Paradox
• The Codeless Code (zen kōans)