How to learn
Why learn at all in the age of AI and how to do it: retrieval practice, spaced repetition, transfer of knowledge, and a hard look at the myths.
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Work through the programme in order or open the track you need — all of it is free. Standalone articles and videos sit alongside, under their own tabs.
Tracks
First steps
The entry point for anyone starting out: how programming and the industry actually work, how software really gets made, and how to manage your own time and attention.
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Mnemonics: memory built on images
Techniques for memorizing lists, numbers, dates, words, names and definitions — with an honest walkthrough of which memory-school promises hold up and which do not.
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How to find information
Search while you are building something: from symptom to term, primary sources instead of retellings, credibility checks, searching code and history, and when to stop searching and go verify.
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Programming from scratch
For complete beginners: how a computer works, your first program, variables, loops, your first project.
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Computer Science basics
The big picture: from the transistor and bits to networks, the web and the application.
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How software gets made, and careers
What a job in IT is made of: SDLC, roles, enterprise and startup, grades, salaries, interviews.
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Time management for engineers
Attention and energy, GTD, the calendar, pomodoro, fighting procrastination and burnout.
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Foundations
The base without which everything else turns into cargo cult: mathematics, data structures, algorithms, how operating systems work, paradigms, principles and lambda calculus.
Hardware and architectures
Down into the hardware: instruction sets and RISC-V, pipelines and out-of-order execution, caches, SIMD, accelerators, chip fabrication.
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Systems thinking
Feedback loops, stocks and flows, delays and leverage points on engineering examples: a queue, a cache, tech debt, an incident.
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Mathematics for programmers
Sets, logic, linear algebra, category theory, computability, game theory and chaos theory.
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Logic and fallacies
From the living history of reasoning, concepts and syllogisms to sophisms, statistical traps and engineering argument.
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Data structures
From the array and the hash table to probabilistic and persistent structures.
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Algorithms
Sorting, DP, graphs, strings, geometry, NP-completeness and practical optimization.
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Operating systems
From Unix and BSD to Linux: kernels, memory, filesystems, boot, init, WM, containers.
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Development paradigms
OOP, FP, logic, reactive, actor-based — and how to mix them.
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Development principles
SOLID, DRY/KISS/YAGNI, clean code, refactoring, 12-factor, code review.
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Church's lambda calculus
In plain language: notation, reductions, Church numerals, the Y combinator, the Curry–Howard correspondence.
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Languages and paradigms
Full zero-to-production courses in eight languages, plus a separate deep course on functional programming.
Go
Goroutines, channels, context, production architecture and static binaries.
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Elixir
BEAM, OTP, supervision, Ecto, Phoenix and fault tolerance by default.
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TypeScript
The type system, the event loop, validation, testing and deployment of services.
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FTS — executable specifications
Business rules in Russian and English with no brackets: execution, tests, TypeScript, React, DDD, AI/MCP and verifiable certificates.
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flang — a full language on top of FTS
A walkthrough of a one-day-old language from its sources: two classes of programs, totality analysis, the type system, the interpreter, emitting C/Go/JS and an honest list of what is missing so far.
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C# / .NET
async/await, Channels, EF Core, DI, Testcontainers and OpenTelemetry.
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Python
The data model, idioms, typing, asyncio, tests, data, web and production.
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Java
OOP, collections, streams, the JVM and memory, Spring, persistence, deployment.
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Rust
Ownership and borrowing, lifetimes, traits, async, unsafe and FFI.
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Systems programming in C
Pointers and memory, building and linking, system calls, processes, threads, assembly.
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Functional programming
Purity, immutability, composition, monads, a map of functors, effects and architecture.
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Frontend development
The browser, HTML/CSS, React, state, the build, performance and testing.
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Mobile development
iOS and Android, cross-platform, offline, push, publishing to the stores.
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Designing systems
How code becomes a system: patterns, architectural styles, context boundaries and trade-offs made on purpose.
Design patterns
GoF, concurrency patterns, functional patterns and antipatterns.
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Architecture patterns
Layers, microservices, event-driven, CQRS, saga, resilience, system design.
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Domain-Driven Design
Strategic and tactical DDD, event storming, DDD in code.
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Distributed systems
Failures, time and clocks, CAP, consensus, replication, idempotency.
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Compilers and languages
Lexer, parser, AST, types, IR, codegen, VM, garbage collection, JIT.
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Data, ML and AI
Data engineering, databases, machine learning, neural networks, search algorithms and applied AI engineering.
AI for engineers: the basics
How LLMs, neural networks and prompting actually work: from Markov chains to agents and orchestration.
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Engineering with AI agents
Working with an agent in a real codebase: context, tools, review, where the agent lies and what it costs.
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Data Engineering and ETL
ETL/ELT, modeling, batch and streaming, orchestration, data quality.
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Databases
SQL and NoSQL: Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Cassandra, Mongo, vector databases, S3 — and how to choose.
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Data analytics
From question to conclusion: SQL, distributions, uncertainty, A/B tests, causality, cohorts and Goodhart's law.
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Machine learning
All the basic algorithms: regressions, SVM, trees, ensembles, clustering, MLOps.
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Neural networks
Backprop, CNN, RNN, transformers, LLMs, generative models, inference.
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AI agents and prompt engineering
Prompting, CoT/ToT, RAG, ReAct, MCP, benchmarks, local models, prompt injection.
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SBSE and search algorithms
Genetic algorithms, multi-objective optimization, automated test generation, APR.
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Web3 and blockchain
Blockchain, consensus mechanisms, EVM, smart contracts, wallets, decentralized storage.
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Infrastructure, tooling and quality
How code reaches the user and stays alive: CI/CD and clouds, editors, testing and engineering practice.
SRE and reliability
SLIs and SLOs, the error budget, alerts and on-call, incident walkthroughs, degradation instead of failure and safe releases.
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Platform engineering
The internal platform as a product: the golden path, self-service, developer experience, cost of ownership and adoption by teams.
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CI/CD, infrastructure and clouds
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/Azure/GCP, VPS, observability.
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Software testing
Test design, manual, unit, integration, E2E, API, load, security, automation.
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Technical writing
The documents an engineer writes on the job: ADRs, RFCs, postmortems, READMEs, API documentation and reviewing text.
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Engineering English
English in working situations: documentation and RFCs, commits and pull requests, review, correspondence, calls, interviews.
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Editors and IDEs
vi/Vim and Neovim, Emacs, VS Code, JetBrains, Zed — and an honest comparison of them all.
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3D assets through an agent
Blender driven by an AI agent over MCP: running with no monitor and no GPU, procedural modeling in code, materials and rendering, export to GLB and acceptance of game assets.
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Computer networks
TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, QUIC, load balancing, CDN, diagnostics.
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Application security
OWASP, authentication, OAuth/OIDC, JWT, cryptography, secrets, privacy.
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Systems performance
Measurement, profiling, memory, caches, databases, load testing.
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Git and teamwork
The data model, branching, rebase, recovery, monorepos, review.
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Accessibility (a11y)
WCAG, semantics, ARIA, the keyboard, screen readers, accessibility testing.
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Embedded systems and robotics
Microcontrollers, peripherals, interrupts, RTOS, IoT, sensors, robots.
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Engineering practice
Client and server, data, integration, environments, builds, quality, CI/CD, scaling, operations.
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Product, process and people
How knowledge turns into delivered value: product, project management, Scrum mastering, systems analysis, UX and the basics of management.
Team lead and engineering leadership
The work of a team lead: one-on-ones, feedback, hiring, growth, delegation, tech debt and on-call rotations.
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Product Management
Discovery, metrics, prioritization, MVP, experiments, growth.
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Project Management
Agile, Kanban, Lean, Scrumban, estimation, risks, DORA, scaling, a comparison of methodologies.
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Scrum master (PSM I)
The Scrum Guide line by line, events, artifacts, facilitation, antipatterns, exam preparation.
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Systems and business analysis
Requirements, documentation, UML and BPMN, integrations, prototypes, stakeholders, acceptance.
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UX and interface design
Research, personas and JTBD, information architecture, prototypes, design systems, usability tests.
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Shipping software
How a product reaches the user and how people pay for it: SaaS and cloud tiers, licenses, pricing, stores, updates.
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Business for engineers
Freelancing, pricing, contracts, a product of your own, unit economics, risks.
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Management: core materials
The software lifecycle, development models, PMBoK, PRINCE2, delegation.
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Articles
Articles, guides and walkthroughs outside the track programme. Six of the most recent are here; the full list with pagination and filters lives on its own route.
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Факт-чекинг: право ответить «не могу проверить»
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English edition ships in stages — interface and …
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Как читать репозиторий и как участвовать
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English edition ships in stages — interface and …
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Чего в языке пока нет: проверенный список
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English edition ships in stages — interface and …
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Ядро FTS на flang — и компилятор, который взялся за себя
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English edition ships in stages — interface and …
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Лицензии, происхождение и приёмка чужого
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English edition ships in stages — interface and …
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Кодогенерация: печать в восемь языков
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English edition ships in stages — interface and …
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Lectures, streams, walkthroughs and translations. Six of the most recent are here; the topic filter and the channel links live on their own route.
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Все что нужно знать про ИИ айтишнику алгоритмы, промптинг и мышление
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English …
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Утечка кода Claude: трагическая ошибка Anthropic [Fireship]
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English …
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Стремительный взлет OpenClaw [Fireship]
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English …
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Он только что прошел через ад, чтобы исправить браузер… [Fireship]
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English …
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Коротко про язык программирования Elixir [Fireship]
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English …
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Карта информатики [Domain of Science]
This page has not been translated into English yet. The Russian original is complete and current: open it in Russian. The English …
The tracks do not have to be taken strictly in order, but the stages are arranged so that each next one rests on the previous. If you do not know where to begin, open the roadmap: it holds routes for particular goals (backend engineer, ML engineer, architect, team lead).