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C++: Introduction to Ray Tracing: a Simple Method for Creating 3D Images
C++: How OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code 20,657 19 days ago
C++: Raycasting engine of Wolfenstein 3D
C++: Physically Based Rendering:From Theory To Implementation
C++: Ray Tracing in One Weekend
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
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
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
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 1,225 6 months ago
JavaScript: Build your own Blockchain in JavaScript 1,031 over 2 years ago
JavaScript: Learn & Build a JavaScript Blockchain
JavaScript: Creating a blockchain with JavaScript 1,736 almost 2 years ago
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) 667 almost 4 years ago
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
Rust: Building A Blockchain in Rust & Substrate
Haskell: Roll your own IRC bot
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
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
Node.js: Create a CLI tool in Javascript
Rust: Command line apps in Rust
Rust: Writing a Command Line Tool in Rust
C: Let's Build a Simple Database
C++: Build Your Own Redis from Scratch
C#: Build Your Own Database
Clojure: An Archaeology-Inspired Database
Crystal: Why you should build your own NoSQL Database
Go: Build Your Own Database from Scratch: Persistence, Indexing, Concurrency
Go: Build Your Own Redis from Scratch
JavaScript: Dagoba: an in-memory graph database
Python: DBDB: Dog Bed Database
Python: Write your own miniature Redis with Python
Ruby: Build your own fast, persistent KV store in Ruby
Rust: Build your own Redis client and server
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 2,985 4 months ago
Python: A proof-of-concept imitation of Docker, written in 100% Python 858 over 3 years ago
Shell: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash 11,295 almost 7 years ago
C: Home-grown bytecode interpreters
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
Rust: 0dmg: Learning Rust by building a partial Game Boy emulator
JavaScript: WTF is JSX (Let's Build a JSX Renderer)
JavaScript: A DIY guide to build your own React 6,315 over 1 year ago
JavaScript: Building React From Scratch [video]
JavaScript: Gooact: React in 160 lines of JavaScript
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]
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: Code a 2D Game Engine using Java - Full Course for Beginners [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 3,262 over 3 years ago
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
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!
Python: ugit: Learn Git Internals by Building Git Yourself
Ruby: Rebuilding Git in Ruby
C: Beej's Guide to Network Programming
C: Let's code a TCP/IP stack
C / Python: Build your own VPN/Virtual Switch 284 9 months ago
Ruby: How to build a network stack in Ruby
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 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
Python: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
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 1,064 almost 3 years ago
C: How to create an OS from scratch 27,278 4 months ago
C: Malloc tutorial
C: Hack the virtual memory
C: Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi 13,222 8 months ago
C: Operating systems development for Dummies
C++: Write your own Operating System [video]
C++: Writing a Bootloader
Rust: Writing an OS in Rust
Rust: Add RISC-V Rust Operating System Tutorial
(any): Linux from scratch
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
(any): mal - Make a Lisp 10,094 4 days ago
Assembly: Jonesforth 1,009 over 1 year ago
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. 4,053 8 months ago
C: A C & x86 version of the "Let's Build a Compiler" by Jack Crenshaw 483 about 6 years ago
C: A journey explaining how to build a compiler from scratch 10,578 4 months ago
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 586 almost 3 years ago
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 27,952 9 months ago
JavaScript: The Super Tiny Interpreter 171 over 8 years ago
JavaScript: Little Lisp interpreter
JavaScript: How to implement a programming language in JavaScript
JavaScript: Let’s go write a Lisp
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]
Python: From Source Code To Machine Code: Build Your Own Compiler From Scratch
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
C: A Regular Expression Matcher
C: Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast
Go: How to build a regex engine from scratch
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
Python: Build Your Own Regular Expression Engines: Backtracking, NFA, DFA
Scala: No Magic: Regular Expressions
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
C: Tutorial - Write a Shell in C
C: Let's build a shell! 547 over 3 years ago
C: Writing a UNIX Shell
C: Build Your Own Shell 395 9 months ago
C: Write a shell in C
Go: Writing a simple shell in Go
Rust: Build Your Own Shell using Rust
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
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
Rust: Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust
Python: Developing a License Plate Recognition System with Machine Learning in Python
Python: Building a Facial Recognition Pipeline with Deep Learning in Tensorflow
C++: Let's Make a Voxel Engine
Java: Java Voxel Engine Tutorial [video]
Rust: Let's build a browser engine
Python: Browser Engineering
C#: Writing a Web Server from Scratch
Node.js: Build Your Own Web Server From Scratch In JavaScript
Node.js: Let's code a web server from scratch with NodeJS Streams
Node.js: lets-build-express 953 2 months ago
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
(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 3,491 11 months ago
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 6,622 4 months ago
C++: How X Window Managers work and how to write one
C++: Writing a Linux Debugger
C++: How a 64k intro is made
C++: Make your own Game Engine
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: Build A Simple Terminal Emulator In 100 Lines of Golang
Go: Let's Create a Simple Load Balancer
Go: Video Encoding from Scratch 316 over 1 year ago
Java: How to Build an Android Reddit App [video]
JavaScript: Build Your Own Module Bundler - Minipack 3,188 almost 4 years ago
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 188,456 3 months ago
JavaScript: Build a ride hailing app with React Native
JavaScript: Build Your Own AdBlocker in (Literally) 10 Minutes
Kotlin: Build Your Own Cache 131 over 3 years ago
Lua: Building a CDN from Scratch to Learn about CDN 3,264 7 months ago
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
Node.js: Build a DNS Server in Node.js
PHP: Write your own MVC from scratch in PHP
PHP: Make your own blog
PHP: Modern PHP Without a Framework
PHP: Code a Web Search Engine in PHP
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: Building a simple Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) using Tensorflow
Python: Learn ML Algorithms by coding: Decision Trees
Python: JSON Decoding Algorithm 99 about 8 years ago
Python: Build your own Git plugin with python
Ruby: A Pedometer in the Real World
Ruby: Creating a Linux Desktop application with Ruby
Rust: Building a DNS server in Rust 4,081 3 months ago
Rust: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch
Rust: WebGL + Rust: Basic Water Tutorial
TypeScript: Tiny Package Manager: Learns how npm or Yarn works 362 10 months ago

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