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Table of contents​

• 3D Renderer
• Augmented Reality
• BitTorrent Client
• Blockchain / Cryptocurrency
• Bot
• Command-Line Tool
• Database
• Docker
• Emulator / Virtual Machine
• Front-end Framework / Library
• Game
• Git
• Network Stack
• Neural Network
• Operating System
• Physics Engine
• Programming Language
• Regex Engine
• Search Engine
• Shell
• Template Engine
• Text Editor
• Visual Recognition System
• Voxel Engine
• Web Search Engine
• Web Server
• Uncategorized

Tutorials​

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
• C++: Raycasting engine of Wolfenstein 3D
• C++: Physically Based Rendering:From Theory To Implementation
• C++: Rasterization: a Practical Implementation
• C# / TypeScript / JavaScript: Learning how to write a 3D soft engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript
• Java / JavaScript: Build your own 3D renderer
• Java: How to create your own simple 3D render engine in pure Java
• JavaScript / Pseudocode: Computer Graphics from scratch
• Python: A 3D Modeller

Build your own Augmented Reality​

• C#: How To: Augmented Reality App Tutorial for Beginners with Vuforia and Unity 3D [video]
• C#: How To Unity ARCore [video]
• C#: AR Portal Tutorial with Unity [video]
• C#: How to create a Dragon in Augmented Reality in Unity ARCore [video]
• C#: How to Augmented Reality AR Tutorial: ARKit Portal to the Upside Down [video]
• Python: Augmented Reality with Python and OpenCV

Build your own BitTorrent Client​

• C#: Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#
• Go: Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
• Nim: Writing a Bencode Parser
• Node.js: Write your own bittorrent client
• Python: A BitTorrent client in Python 3.5

Build your own Blockchain / Cryptocurrency​

• ATS: Functional Blockchain
• C#: Programming The Blockchain in C#
• Crystal: Write your own blockchain and PoW algorithm using Crystal
• Go: Building Blockchain in Go
• Go: Code your own blockchain in less than 200 lines of Go
• 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
• JavaScript: Creating a blockchain with JavaScript
• JavaScript: How To Launch Your Own Production-Ready Cryptocurrency
• JavaScript: Writing a Blockchain in Node.js
• Kotlin: Let’s implement a cryptocurrency in Kotlin
• Python: Learn Blockchains by Building One
• Python: Build your own blockchain: a Python tutorial
• Python: A Practical Introduction to Blockchain with Python
• Python: Let’s Build the Tiniest Blockchain
• Ruby: Programming Blockchains Step-by-Step (Manuscripts Book Edition)
• Scala: How to build a simple actor-based blockchain
• TypeScript: Naivecoin: a tutorial for building a cryptocurrency
• TypeScript: NaivecoinStake: a tutorial for building a cryptocurrency with the Proof of Stake consensus

Build your own Bot​

• Haskell: Roll your own IRC bot
• Java: How To Make a Scary Russian Twitter Bot With Java
• Node.js: Creating a Simple Facebook Messenger AI Bot with API.ai in Node.js
• Node.js: How to make a responsive telegram bot
• Node.js: Create a Discord bot
• Node.js: gifbot - Building a GitHub App
• Node.js: Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js
• Python: How to Build Your First Slack Bot with Python
• Python: How to build a Slack Bot with Python using Slack Events API & Django under 20 minute
• Python: Build a Reddit Bot
• Python: How To Make A Reddit Bot [video]
• Python: How To Create a Telegram Bot Using Python
• Python: Create a Twitter Bot in Python Using Tweepy
• Python: Creating Reddit Bot with Python & PRAW [video]
• R: Build A Cryptocurrency Trading Bot with R
• Rust: A bot for Starcraft in Rust, C or any other language

Build your own Command-Line Tool​

• Go: Visualize your local git contributions with Go
• Go: Build a command line app with Go: lolcat
• Go: Building a cli command with Go: cowsay
• Go: Go CLI tutorial: fortune clone
• Nim: Writing a stow alternative to manage dotfiles

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
• Crystal: Why you should build your own NoSQL Database
• JavaScript: Dagoba: an in-memory graph database
• Python: DBDB: Dog Bed Database
• Python: Write your own miniature Redis with Python

Build your own Docker​

• C: Linux containers in 500 lines of code
• Go: Build Your Own Container Using Less than 100 Lines of Go
• Go: Building a container from scratch in Go [video]
• 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 Emulator / Virtual Machine​

• C: Virtual machine in C
• C: Write your Own Virtual Machine
• C: Writing a Game Boy emulator, Cinoop
• C++: How to write an emulator (CHIP-8 interpreter)
• C++: Emulation tutorial (CHIP-8 interpreter)
• C++: Emulation tutorial (GameBoy emulator)
• C++: Emulation tutorial (Master System emulator)
• C++: NES Emulator From Scratch [video]
• Common Lisp: CHIP-8 in Common Lisp
• JavaScript: GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript
• Python: Emulation Basics: Write your own Chip 8 Emulator/Interpreter

Build your own Front-end Framework / Library​

• JavaScript: WTF is JSX (Let's Build a JSX Renderer)
• JavaScript: A DIY guide to build your own React
• JavaScript: Building React From Scratch [video]
• JavaScript: Gooact: React in 160 lines of JavaScript
• JavaScript: React Internals
• JavaScript: Learn how React Reconciler package works by building your own lightweight React DOM
• JavaScript: Build Yourself a Redux
• JavaScript: Let’s Write Redux!
• JavaScript: Redux: Implementing Store from Scratch [video]
• JavaScript: Build Your own Simplified AngularJS in 200 Lines of JavaScript
• JavaScript: Make Your Own AngularJS
• JavaScript: How to write your own Virtual DOM
• JavaScript: Building a frontend framework, from scratch, with components (templating, state, VDOM)
• JavaScript: Build your own React
• JavaScript: Building a Custom React Renderer [video]

Build your own Game​

• C: Handmade Hero
• C: How to Program an NES game in C
• C: Chess Engine In C [video]
• C: Let's Make: Dangerous Dave [video]
• C: Learn Video Game Programming in C [video]
• C: Coding A Sudoku Solver in C [video]
• C: Coding a Rogue/Nethack RPG in C [video]
• C: On Tetris and Reimplementation
• C++: Breakout
• C++: Beginning Game Programming v2.0
• C++: Tetris tutorial in C++ platform independent focused in game logic for beginners
• C++: Remaking Cavestory in C++ [video]
• C++: Reconstructing Cave Story [video]
• C++: Space Invaders from Scratch
• C#: Learn C# by Building a Simple RPG
• C#: Creating a Roguelike Game in C#
• C#: Build a C#/WPF RPG
• Go: Games With Go [video]
• Java: 3D Game Development with LWJGL 3
• JavaScript: 2D breakout game using Phaser
• JavaScript: How to Make Flappy Bird in HTML5 With Phaser
• JavaScript: Developing Games with React, Redux, and SVG
• JavaScript: Build your own 8-Ball Pool game from scratch [video]
• JavaScript: How to Make Your First Roguelike
• JavaScript: Think like a programmer: How to build Snake using only JavaScript, HTML & CSS
• Lua: BYTEPATH
• Python: Developing Games With PyGame
• Python: Making Games with Python & Pygame [pdf]
• Python: Roguelike Tutorial Revised
• Ruby: Developing Games With Ruby
• Ruby: Ruby Snake
• Rust: Adventures in Rust: A Basic 2D Game
• Rust: Roguelike Tutorial in Rust + tcod

Build your own Git​

• Haskell: Reimplementing “git clone” in Haskell from the bottom up
• JavaScript: Gitlet
• JavaScript: Build GIT - Learn GIT
• Python: Just enough of a Git client to create a repo, commit, and push itself to GitHub
• Python: Write yourself a Git!
• Ruby: Rebuilding Git in Ruby

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 Neural Network​

• C#: Neural Network OCR
• F#: Building Neural Networks in F#
• 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
• JavaScript / Java: Neural Networks - The Nature of Code [video]
• JavaScript: Neural Network implementation in JavaScript, by an example
• JavaScript: Neural networks from scratch for JavaScript linguists (Part1 — The Perceptron)
• Python: A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python
• Python: Implement a Neural Network from Scratch
• Python: Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Python: Traffic signs classification with a convolutional network
• Python: Generate Music using LSTM Neural Network in Keras
• Python: An Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks

Build your own Operating System​

• Assembly: Writing a Tiny x86 Bootloader
• Assembly: Baking Pi – Operating Systems Development
• C: Building a software and hardware stack for a simple computer from scratch [video]
• C: Operating Systems: From 0 to 1
• C: The little book about OS development
• C: Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS
• C: Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel
• C: Kernel 201 – Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support
• 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: Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
• C: Operating systems development for Dummies
• C++: Write your own Operating System [video]
• C++: Writing a Bootloader
• Rust: Writing an OS in Rust

Build your own Physics Engine​

• C: Video Game Physics Tutorial
• C++: Game physics series by Allen Chou
• C++: How to Create a Custom Physics Engine
• C++: 3D Physics Engine Tutorial [video]
• JavaScript: How Physics Engines Work
• JavaScript: Broad Phase Collision Detection Using Spatial Partitioning
• JavaScript: Build a simple 2D physics engine for JavaScript games

Build your own Programming Language​

• (any): mal - Make a Lisp
• Assembly: Jonesforth
• 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: Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C
• C: C interpreter that interprets itself.
• C: A C & x86 version of the "Let's Build a Compiler" by Jack Crenshaw
• C: A journey explaining how to build a compiler from scratch
• C++: Writing Your Own Toy Compiler Using Flex
• C++: How to Create a Compiler [video]
• C++: Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Language with LLVM
• F#: Understanding Parser Combinators
• Elixir: Demystifying compilers by writing your own [video]
• Go: The Super Tiny Compiler
• Go: Lexical Scanning in Go [video]
• Haskell: Let's Build a Compiler
• Haskell: Write You a Haskell
• Haskell: Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours
• Haskell: Write You A Scheme
• Java: Crafting interpreters: A handbook for making programming languages
• Java: Creating JVM Language
• JavaScript: The Super Tiny Compiler
• JavaScript: The Super Tiny Interpreter
• JavaScript: Little Lisp interpreter
• JavaScript: How to implement a programming language in JavaScript
• OCaml: Writing a C Compiler
• OCaml: Writing a Lisp, the series
• Pascal: Let's Build a Compiler
• Python: A Python Interpreter Written in Python
• Python: lisp.py: Make your own Lisp interpreter
• Python: How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python
• Python: Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter
• Python: Make Your Own Simple Interpreted Programming Language [video]
• Racket: Beautiful Racket: How to make your own programming languages with Racket
• Ruby: A Compiler From Scratch
• Ruby: Markdown compiler from scratch in Ruby
• Rust: So You Want to Build a Language VM
• Rust: Learning Parser Combinators With Rust
• Swift: Building a LISP from scratch with Swift
• TypeScript: Build your own WebAssembly Compiler

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
• JavaScript: How to implement regular expressions in functional javascript using derivatives
• JavaScript: Implementing a Regular Expression Engine
• Perl: How Regexes Work
• Scala: No Magic: Regular Expressions

Build your own Search Engine​

• CSS: A search engine in CSS
• Python: Building a search engine using Redis and redis-py
• Python: Building a Vector Space Indexing Engine in Python
• Python: Building A Python-Based Search Engine [video]
• Python: Making text search learn from feedback
• Python: Finding Important Words in Text Using TF-IDF

Build your own Shell​

• C: Tutorial - Write a Shell in C
• C: Let's build a shell!
• C: Writing a UNIX Shell
• C: Build Your Own Shell
• Go: Writing a simple shell in Go
• Rust: Build Your Own Shell using Rust

Build your own Template Engine​

• JavaScript: JavaScript template engine in just 20 lines
• JavaScript: Understanding JavaScript Micro-Templating
• 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 Text Editor​

• C: Build Your Own Text Editor
• C++: Designing a Simple Text Editor
• Python: Python Tutorial: Make Your Own Text Editor [video]
• Python: Create a Simple Python Text Editor!
• Ruby: Build a Collaborative Text Editor Using Rails

Build your own Visual Recognition System​

• Python: Developing a License Plate Recognition System with Machine Learning in Python
• Python: Building a Facial Recognition Pipeline with Deep Learning in Tensorflow

Build your own Voxel Engine​

• C++: Let's Make a Voxel Engine
• Java: Let's make a voxel engine [video]
• Java: Java Voxel Engine Tutorial [video]

Build your own Web Search Engine​

• PHP: Code a Search Engine in PHP

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
• Node.js: lets-build-express
• 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
• Python: Implementing a RESTful Web API with Python & Flask
• Ruby: Building a simple websockets server from scratch in Ruby

Uncategorized​

• (any): From NAND to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer From First Principles
• Alloy: The Same-Origin Policy
• C: How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
• C: Learn how to write a hash table in C
• C: The very basics of a terminal emulator
• C: Write a System Call
• C: Sol - An MQTT broker from scratch
• C++: Build your own VR headset for $200
• C++: How X Window Managers work and how to write one
• C++: Writing a Linux Debugger
• C++: How a 64k intro is made
• C#: C# Networking: Create a TCP chater server, TCP games, UDP Pong and more
• C#: Loading and rendering 3D skeletal animations from scratch in C# and GLSL
• Clojure: Building a spell-checker
• Go, Let's Create a Simple Load Balancer
• Java: How to Build an Android Reddit App [video]
• JavaScript: Build Your Own Module Bundler - Minipack
• JavaScript: Learn JavaScript Promises by Building a Promise from Scratch
• JavaScript: Implementing promises from scratch (TDD way)
• JavaScript: Implement your own — call(), apply() and bind() method in JavaScript
• JavaScript: JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures
• JavaScript: How to Make an Evolutionary Tetris AI [video]
• JavaScript: Build a ride hailing app with React Native
• Kotlin: Build Your Own Cache
• Nim: Writing a Redis Protocol Parser
• Nim: Writing a Build system
• Nim: Writing a MiniTest Framework
• Nim: Writing a DMIDecode Parser
• Nim: Writing a INI Parser
• Nim: Writing a Link Checker
• Nim: Writing a URL Shortening Service
• Node.js: Build a static site generator in 40 lines with Node.js
• Node.js: Building A Simple Single Sign On(SSO) Server And Solution From Scratch In Node.js.
• Node.js: How to create a real-world Node CLI app with Node
• PHP: Write your own MVC from scratch in PHP
• PHP: Make your own blog
• PHP: Modern PHP Without a Framework
• Python: Build a Deep Learning Library [video]
• Python: How to Build a Kick-Ass Mobile Document Scanner in Just 5 Minutes
• Python: Continuous Integration System
• Python: Recommender Systems in Python: Beginner Tutorial
• Python: Write SMS-spam detector with Scikit-learn
• Python: A Simple Content-Based Recommendation Engine in Python
• Python: Stock Market Predictions with LSTM in Python
• Python: Build your own error-correction fountain code with Luby Transform Codes
• Python: Building a simple Generative Adversial Network (GAN) using Tensorflow
• Python: Learn ML Algorithms by coding: Decision Trees
• Python: JSON Decoding Algorithm
• Ruby: A Pedometer in the Real World
• Ruby: Creating a Linux Desktop application with Ruby
• Rust: Let's build a browser engine
• Rust: Building a DNS server in Rust
• Rust: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch
• TypeScript: Tiny Package Manager: Learns how npm or Yarn works

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