Computer Science (CS): Coding Resources

Research Guide for Computer Science

Coding Community Resources

A list of code search engines, communities, discussion forums, posts, repositories, etc. to support coding work. If you'd like to suggest an addition to this list, please reach out.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Resources

Seeking public, open, or federal government APIs? Here are a few directories:

API.DATA.GOV Developer Manual: offers an API point of entry to share government data with the public
GitHub | Public APIs
GitHub | Public API Lists
Public API (dev)
Public APIs (dev)
Public APIs (io)

Skills-Building Electronic Resources

O'Reilly [UW restricted]
Books, video and other content on computer science and related topics (data science, data visualization, etc.). Published by O'Reilly and others.

LinkedIn Learning
Develop skills in project management, marketing, finance, data science, web development, product and manufacturing, video, graphic design, and user experience.

Citing Code

Citing code | Academic Integrity at MIT
From the "Writing Code" section of the MIT Academic Integrity handbook, a few good guidelines about citing code.
Zenodo | for citing code from Github
Zenodo, an open source, is a data archiving tool that will copy content from Github's repository and assign the archive a persistent DOI (digital object identifier). The DOI can then be used when creating citations for academic papers.