Educational Resources Library
The Education Resources Library is a collection of resources, books, courses and videos by team mates at Sourcegraph.
The goal is to provide resources for learning and development in line with Sourcegraph company value of continuous growth.
#dev-learn channel
Join the #dev-learn channel in Slack to share and discuss learning resources.
If you come across resources such as links, articles, books, videos or other content that may be useful for learning new topics, post them in #dev-learn to share them with others.
How do I propose resources to be added to this page?
To propose resources to be added, post them in the #dev-learn channel.
Education budget for Sourcegraph teammates
We provide an education budget for Sourcegraph teammates that can be used for the books and paid courses listed on this page. See the Education section on the Spending Company Money page.
Recommended books
These are books relevant to engineers and engineering managers and have been recommended.
Software engineering and software design
A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
This book focuses on complexity in the code, covering it from a high level perspective so its teachings are applicable regardlessly of which technology the reader is working with. What makes it really interesting is that the author is providing very concrete examples to illustrate his claims and thoroughly describes his reasonings. It gives the reader the tools to think about complexity on their own so they can make their own decisions instead of following a list of good and bad practices.
Go programming language
The authoritative resource for learning Go is this book:
The Go Programming Language by Alan A. A. Donovan · Brian W. Kernighan
For a long list of other Go books, see: the GoBooks repo.
JavaScript & TypeScript
This O’Reilly book gives a good introduction to TypeScript. It’s aimed at readers who are already familiar with JavaScript.
React learning resources
GraphQL learning resources
We use GraphQL as our API protocol, build on a backend in Go.
Recommended CSS Course
This course for frontend developers is one of the best comprehensive and detailed CSS resources that we’ve come across.
CSS for JavaScript Developers by Josh W. Comeau
Introduction to Git concepts
This section includes some of our internal Sourcegraph educational resources.
Branches in Git