Cool Tools & Resources

Education/Training

General CompSci/Programming

• Learning to Code Guide https://i.redd.it/anrzrr62k2s41.jpg

• Harvard CS50 https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science

  • CS50 assignments https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2020/spring/
  • CS50 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcabW7890RKJzL968QWEykA

• W3 Schools https://www.w3schools.com/

• Websitehub.com Programming Cheat Sheet https://i.redd.it/anrzrr62k2s41.jpg Challenges

• FreeCodeCamp https://www.freecodecamp.org/

• CodeAcademy https://www.codecademy.com/

• O'Reilly for Libraries https://www.aacpl.net/form/oreilly

• Lynda.com - Programming Foundations: Fundamentals (2011) https://www.lynda.com/JavaScript-tutorials/Foundations-of-Programming-Fundamentals/83603-2.html?utm_medium=ldc-partner&utm_source=SSPRC&utm_content=524&utm_campaign=CD16295&bid=524&aid=CD16295

• ASCII/Hexa Tables http://www.asciitable.com/

• Humble Bundle - https://www.humblebundle.com/

  Cybersecurity

• Professor Messer (free A+, Security+, Network+, Linux+ videos) https://www.professormesser.com/security-plus/sy0-501/sy0-501-training-course/

• InfraGuard NCR Resources (free) https://www.infragardncr.org/resources

• Security Through Education - Social Engineering https://www.social-engineer.org/framework/se-tools/computer-based/social-engineer-toolkit-set/

• CDSE.edu - Center for the Development of Security Excellence https://www.cdse.edu/toolkits/cybersecurity/training.html

• Open University Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online (free) https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/introduction-cyber-security-stay-safe-online/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab

• Cybrary (free) https://www.cybrary.it/

• DHS (free) https://www.us-cert.gov/ics

• Open Security Training (free) http://opensecuritytraining.info/Training.html

• CyberAces (free) https://www.cyberaces.org/courses.html

• Heimdal Security https://cybersecuritycourse.co/#lessons

• The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism https://www.start.umd.edu/new-approaches-countering-terror-countering-violent-extremism

• OSINT Framework https://osintframework.com/

• Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/

• Schnier of Security https://www.schneier.com/

Statistics

• Inferential Stats Guide https://i.redd.it/mgorexc6ypr41.jpg

GIS (Geographic Information System)

• QGIS https://qgis.org/en/site/about/index.html

Tables

• Tabula: Extract Tables from PDFs https://tabula.technology/

Programs/Apps/OS

Social Development Environment

• GitHub www.github.com
  • GitHub Learning Lab https://lab.github.com/
• CodePen https://codepen.io/

Challenges/Practice

• Codewars https://www.codewars.com/

Text/Code Editors

• Sublime Text https://www.sublimetext.com/
• Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• Atom (by GitHub) https://atom.io/
• Bracket - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design http://brackets.io/

Command Line

• Command Line Crash Course https://www.computervillage.org/articles/CommandLine.pdf

Linux

• Linux Org https://www.linux.org/
• Cygwin - Get that Linux feeling - on Windows https://www.cygwin.com/
• Ubuntu - My prefered distro https://ubuntu.com/

Python

• Python - Home https://www.python.org/
• Jupyter - Project Jupyter exists to develop open-source software, open-standards, and services for interactive computing across dozens of programming languages https://jupyter.org/
• Google Python for Developers Class https://developers.google.com/edu/python
• Python Guthub repository https://github.com/python

R

• R Project - https://www.r-project.org/
• Swirl - swirl teaches you R programming and data science interactively, at your own pace, and right in the R console! https://swirlstats.com/
• R Studio - RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management. - https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/
• R Studio - Education - https://education.rstudio.com/learn/beginner/
• R for Data Science (Book) - https://r4ds.had.co.nz/introduction.html

SQL

• pgAdmin - pgAdmin is the most popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL, the most advanced Open Source database in the world https://www.pgadmin.org/

Markdown

• Adam Pritchard MarkDown Cheatsheet https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
• Github Markdown Cheatsheet https://guides.github.com/pdfs/markdown-cheatsheet-online.pdf
• R Markdown Cheatsheet https://rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rmarkdown-cheatsheet.pdf
• WordPress Markdown Cheatsheet https://wordpress.com/support/markdown-quick-reference/

Bootstrap

• Bootstrap - Build responsive, mobile-first projects on the web with the world’s most popular front-end component library. https://getbootstrap.com/
• Bootstrap Themes https://themes.getbootstrap.com/
• Free Boostrap Themes https://bootswatch.com/
• Start Bootstrap https://startbootstrap.com/

Color Picker

Sip - A modern color picker built for designers and developers, that allows you to collect, organize and edit colors. http://sipapp.io/

Project Management/Comms.

• Trello https://trello.com/

Browser Extensions

• Chrome
  • WhatFont - The name says it all. This is an easy way of finding out the fonts that your favorite website is using, so that you can borrow them for your own projects. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whatfont/jabopobgcpjmedljpbcaablpmlmfcogm?hl=en
  • ColorZilla - Useful for copying exact colors off of a website. This copies a color straight to your clipboard so you don’t spend forever trying to get the right RGBA combination. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorzilla/bhlhnicpbhignbdhedgjhgdocnmhomnp?hl=en

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/
• Audrino https://www.arduino.cc/

IoT

IFTTT - (If This Then That) https://ifttt.com/

Networking

• Understanding LAN and WAN https://www.computervillage.org/articles/networking.pdf

Visualization

• Cytospcape (Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data. A lot of Apps are available for various kinds of problem domains, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and semantic web.) https://cytoscape.org/