Project Based Learning

A list of programming tutorials in which aspiring software developers learn how to build an application from scratch. These tutorials are divided into different primary programming languages. Tutorials may involve multiple technologies and languages.

To get started, simply fork this repo. Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

Table of Contents:

C#
C/C++
Clojure
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
F#
Go
Haskell
HTML/CSS
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lua
OCaml
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Additional resources

C/C++:

Build an Interpreter (Chapter 14 on is written in C)
Memory Allocators 101 - Write a simple memory allocator
Write a Shell in C
Write a FUSE Filesystem
Build Your Own Text Editor
Build Your Own Lisp
How to Program an NES Game in C
Write an OS from scratch
How to create an OS from scratch
Building a CHIP-8 Emulator
Beginning Game Programming with C++ and SDL
Implementing a Key-Value Store
Tiny 3D graphics projects
- Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code
- Understandable RayTracing in 256 lines of bare C++
- KABOOM! in 180 lines of bare C++
- 486 lines of C++: old-school FPS in a weekend
Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++
- Part 1
- Part 2
Build a Live Code-reloader Library for C++
Write a hash table in C
Let's Build a Simple Database
Let's Write a Kernel
Write a Bootloader in C
Linux Container in 500 Lines of Code
Write Your Own Virtual Machine
Learning KVM - Implement Your Own Linux Kernel
Build Your Own Redis with C/C++
Write a C compiler
- Part 1: Integers, Lexing and Code Generation
- Part 2: Unary Operators
- Part 3: Binary Operators
- Part 4: Even More Binary Operators
- Part 5: Local Variables
- Part 6: Conditionals
- Part 7: Compound Statements
- Part 8: Loops
- Part 9: Functions
- Part 10: Global Variables
Implementing a Language with LLVM
Meta Crush Saga: a C++17 compile-time game
High-Performance Matrix Multiplication
Space Invaders from Scratch
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- Part 5
Tetris Tutorial in C++ Platform Independent
Writing a Linux Debugger
- Part 1: Setup
- Part 2: Breakpoints
- Part 3: Registers and memory
- Part 4: Elves and dwarves
- Part 5: Source and signals
- Part 6: Source-level stepping
- Part 7: Source-level breakpoints
- Part 8: Stack unwinding
- Part 9: Handling variables
- Part 10: Advanced topics
Let's write a compiler
- Part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and doing some planning
- Part 2: A lexer
- Part 3: A parser
- Part 4: Testing
- Part 5: A code generator
- Part 6: Input and output
- Part 7: Arrays
- Part 8: Strings, forward references, and conclusion

Network programming

OpenGL:

Creating 2D Breakout game clone in C++ with OpenGL
Handmade Hero
How to Make Minecraft in C++/OpenGL (video)

C#:

Learn C# By Building a Simple RPG Game
Create a Rogue-like game in C#
Create a Blank App with C# and Xamarin (work in progress)
Build iOS Photo Library App with Xamarin and Visual Studio
Building the CoreWiki This is a Wiki-style content management system that has been completely written in C# with ASP.NET Core and Razor Pages. You can find the source code here.