Free Tutorial Mega-List: How to Build Your Own Cryptocurrency, Operating System, Programming Language, and More

I recently stumbled upon a new GitHub repository that had a long list of tutorials about how to build many technologies. The list includes tutorials on how to Build your own Blockchain / Cryptocurrency, Web Server, Template Engine,_ and many more.

I stumbled upon this repository while browsing through the most popular GitHub repositories in a new Chrome tab using GitHunt. It is a really long list, and may overwhelm you a bit, but this repository is worth checking out. You can always watch it and come back to it. Maybe you need to learn something better by building it, or perhaps you’ll find some tutorial you need.

Here is the complete list that has been added to GitHub and made public by the author Daniel Stefanovic at the time of this writing.

Here, I’ll list/link to some of the articles from each category to give you an idea of what’s on offer:

Build your own 3D Renderer

• C++: Introduction to Ray Tracing: a Simple Method for Creating 3D Images

• C++: How OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code

• Java + JavaScript: Build your own 3D renderer

• Java: How to create your own simple 3D render engine in pure Java

Build your own Blockchain / Cryptocurrency

• Cryptocurrency for Dummies: Bitcoin and Beyond

• ATS: Functional Blockchain

• Ethereum: From “What is Blockchain?” to building a blockchain in less than an hour

• Go: Building Blockchain in Go

• Haskell: A simple cryptocurrency implementation, written to illustrate the basic components of a Proof-of-Work based public distributed ledger

• Java: Creating Your First Blockchain with Java

• JavaScript: A cryptocurrency implementation in less than 1500 lines of code

• JavaScript: Build your own Blockchain in Javascript

• JavaScript: Learn & Build a Javascript Blockchain

• Python: Learn Blockchains by Building One

• Python: Build your own blockchain: a Python tutorial

• TypeScript: Naivecoin: a tutorial for building a cryptocurrency

Build your own Bot

• Haskell: Roll your own IRC bot

• Node.js: Creating a Simple Facebook Messenger AI Bot with API.ai in Node.js

• Node.js: Why you should have your own Twitter bot, and how to build one in less than 30 minutes

• Node.js: How to make a responsive telegram bot

• Node.js: Create a Discord bot

• PHP: Let’s write a cryptocurrency bot

• Python: Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a Basic Facebook Chat Bot

• Python: Build a Reddit Bot

• Python: How To Make A reddit Bot

• Python: How To Create a Telegram Bot Using Python

• Python: Create a Twitter Bot in Python Using Tweepy

• R: Build A Cryptocurrency Trading Bot with R

Build your own Database

• C: Let’s Build a Simple Database

• C++: Implementing a Key-Value Store

• C#: Build Your Own Database

• Clojure: An Archaeology-Inspired Database

• JavaScript: Dagoba: an in-memory graph database

• Python: DBDB: Dog Bed Database

Build your own Front-end Framework / Library

• JavaScript: A DIY guide to build your own React

• JavaScript: Reverse Engineering React

• JavaScript: Building React From Scratch

• JavaScript: Building Your Own React Clone in Five Easy Steps

• JavaScript: Build your own Vuejs

• JavaScript: Build Yourself a Redux

• JavaScript: Let’s Write Redux!

• JavaScript: Redux: Implementing Store from Scratch

• JavaScript: Build Your own Simplified AngularJS in 200 Lines of JavaScript

• JavaScript: How to write your own Virtual DOM

Build your own Docker

• C: Linux containers in 500 lines of code

• Go: Building a container from scratch in Go

• Python: A workshop on Linux containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch

• Python: A proof-of-concept imitation of Docker, written in 100% Python

• Shell: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash

Build your own Game

• C: Handmade Hero

• C: How to Program an NES game in C

• C: Chess Engine In C

• C: Let’s Make: Dangerous Dave

• C: Learn Video Game Programming in C

• C: Coding A Sudoku Solver in C

• C: Coding a Rogue/Nethack RPG in C

• C: Tutorial For a Brickout Clone

• C: A tutorials for a basic Invaders game made in C with GTK: and OpenGL

• C: Astroids Tutorial written in C using GTK with OpenGL and DashGL for matrix manipulation

• C++: How To Make Minecraft in C++/ OpenGL

• C++: Breakout

• C++: Beginning Game Programming v2.0

• C#: Learn C# by Building a Simple RPG

• C#: Creating a Roguelike Game in C#

• JavaScript: 2D breakout game using Phaser

• JavaScript: How to Make Flappy Bird in HTML5 With Phaser

• Lua: BYTEPATH

• Ruby: Write Yourself a Roguelike

• Ruby: Developing Games With Ruby

Build your own Git

• JavaScript: Gitlet

• JavaScript: Build GIT — Learn GIT

• Python: Just enough of a Git client to create a repo, commit, and push itself to GitHub

• Ruby: Rebuilding Git in Ruby

Build your own Neural Network

• C#: Neural Network OCR

• Go: Build a multilayer perceptron with Golang

• Go: How to build a simple artificial neural network with Go

• Go: Building a Neural Net from Scratch in Go

• Java: Neural Networks: Perceptron

• JavaScript: Neural Network implementation in Javascript, by an example

• JavaScript: Neural networks from scratch for Javascript linguists (Part1 — The Perceptron)

• JavaScript: You can build a neural network in JavaScript even if you don’t really understand neural networks

• JavaScript: How to create a Neural Network in JavaScript in only 30 lines of code

• Python: Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Build your own Network Stack

• C: Beej’s Guide to Network Programming

• C: Let’s code a TCP/IP stack

• Ruby: How to build a network stack in Ruby

Build your own Operating System

• Assembly: Writing a Tiny x86 Bootloader

• C: Operating Systems: From 0 to 1

• C: The little book about OS development

• C: Kernel 101 –Let’s write a Kernel

• C: Build a minimal multi-tasking kernel for ARM from scratch

• C: How to create an OS from scratch

• C: Malloc tutorial

• C: Hack the virtual memory

• C++: Writing a Bootloader

• Rust: Writing an OS in Rust

Build your own Programming Language

• C: Crafting interpreters: A handbook for making programming languages

• C: Baby’s First Garbage Collector

• C: Build Your Own Lisp: Learn C and build your own programming language in 1000 lines of code

• C: Implement a minimal interpreter, Compiler (x86/Arm) and JIT compiler from scratch

• C: Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C

• C++: Writing Your Own Toy Compiler Using Flex

• Go: Lexical Scanning in Go

• Haskell: Let’s Build a Compiler

• Haskell: Write You a Haskell

• JavaScript: The Super Tiny Compiler

• OCaml: Writing a C Compiler

• Racket: Beautiful Racket: How to make your own programming languages with Racket

• Ruby: A Compiler From Scratch

• Python: A Python Interpreter Written in Python

• Python: lisp.py: Make your own Lisp interpreter

• Python: Simple Iterator-based Parsing

• Python: Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python

Build your own Regex Engine

• C: A Regular Expression Matcher

• C: Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast

• JavaScript: Build a Regex Engine in Less than 40 Lines of Code

• Perl: How Regexes Work

• Scala: No Magic: Regular Expressions

Build your own Shell

• C: Tutorial — Write a Shell in C

• C: Let’s build a shell!

• C: Writing a UNIX Shell — Part I

• Ruby: A Unix Shell in Ruby

Build your own Template Engine

• JavaScript: JavaScript template engine in just 20 lines

• Python: Approach: Building a toy template engine in Python

• Python: A Template Engine

• Ruby: How to write a template engine in less than 30 lines of code

Build your own Web Server

• C#: Writing a Web Server from Scratch

• Node.js: Let’s code a web server from scratch with NodeJS Streams

• PHP: Writing a webserver in pure PHP

• Python: A Simple Web Server

• Python: Let’s Build A Web Server.

• Python: Web application from scratch

• Python: Building a basic HTTP Server from scratch in Python

• Ruby: Building a simple websockets server from scratch in Ruby

Uncategorized

• Alloy: The Same-Origin Policy

• C: Build Your Own Text Editor

• C: How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines

• C: Learn how to write a hash table in C

• C: Writing an SVG Library

• C++: Build your own VR headset for $100

• C++: How to write an emulator (CHIP-8 interpreter)

• C++: Writing a Linux Debugger

• C++: How a 64k intro is made

• Go: Build a web application in Go

• Java: Build a Flashlight App

• JavaScript: Learn JavaScript Promises by Building a Promise from Scratch

• Python: How to Build a Kick-Ass Mobile Document Scanner in Just 5 Minutes

• Python: Continuous Integration System

• Python: Building a Facial Recognition Pipeline with Deep Learning in Tensorflow

• Python: Recommender Systems in Python: Beginner Tutorial

• Ruby: A Pedometer in the Real World

• Rust: Let’s build a browser engine

• Rust: Building a DNS server in Rust

I hope you find this repository helpful. I certainly did. You can contribute to the complete list on GitHub.

Happy learning!

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