Project Based Learning

A list of programming tutorials in which learners build an application from scratch. These tutorials are divided into different primary programming languages. Some have intermixed technologies and languages.

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Table of Contents:

• C#
• C/C++
• Clojure
• 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
• 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

Network programming

• Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack

  • Part 1: Ethernet & ARP
  • Part 2: IPv4 & ICMPv4
  • Part 3: TCP Basics & Handshake
  • Part 4: TCP Data Flow & Socket API
  • Part 5: TCP Retransmission

• Programming concurrent servers

  • Part 1 - Introduction
  • Part 2 - Threads
  • Part 3 - Event-driven
  • Part 4 - libuv
  • Part 5 - Redis case study
  • Part 6 - Callbacks, Promises and async/await

• MQTT Broker from scratch

  • Part 1 - The protocol
  • Part 2 - Networking
  • Part 3 - Server
  • Part 4 - Data structures
  • Part 5 - Topic abstraction
  • Part 6 - Handlers
  • Bonus - Multithreading

OpenGL:

• Creating 2D Breakout game clone in C++ with OpenGL
  • Breakout
  • Setting up
  • Rendering Sprites
  • Levels
  • Collisions
    • Ball
    • Collision detection
    • Collision resolution
  • Particles
  • Postprocessing
  • Powerups
  • Audio
  • Render text
  • Final thoughts
• 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.

Clojure:

• Build a Twitter Bot with Clojure
• Building a Spell-Checker
• Building a JIRA integration with Clojure & Atlassian Connect
• Prototyping with Clojure
• Tetris in ClojureScript

Elixir

• Building a Simple Chat App With Elixir and Phoenix
• How to write a super fast link shortener with Elixir, Phoenix, and Mnesia

Erlang

• ChatBus : build your first multi-user chat room app with Erlang/OTP
• Making a Chat App with Erlang, Rebar, Cowboy and Bullet

F#:

• Write your own Excel in 100 lines of F#

Java:

• Build an Interpreter (Chapter 4-13 is written in Java)
• Build a Simple HTTP Server with Java
• Build an Android Flashlight App (video)
• Build a Spring Boot App with User Authentication

JavaScript:

• Build 30 things in 30 days with 30 tutorials
• Build an App in Pure JS
• Build a Jupyter Notebook Extension

HTML and CSS:

• Build A Loading Screen
• Build an HTML Calculator with JS

Mobile Application:

• Build a React Native Todo Application
• Build a React Native Application with Redux Thunk

Web Applications:

React:

• Create Serverless React.js Apps
• Create a Trello Clone
• Create a Character Voting App with React, Node, MongoDB and SocketIO
• React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp
• Build a Full Stack Movie Voting App with Test-First Development using Mocha, React, Redux and Immutable
• Build a Twitter Stream with React and Node
• Build a Serverless MERN Story App with Webtask.io
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Build A Simple Medium Clone using React.js and Node.js
• Integrate MailChimp in JS
• Build A Chrome Extension with React + Parcel
• Build A ToDo App With React Native
• Make a Chat Application
• Create a News App with React Native
• Learn Webpack For React
• Testing React App With Pupepeteer and Jest
• Build Your Own React Boilerplate
• Code The Game Of Life With React
• A Basic React+Redux Introductory Tutorial
• Build an Appointment Scheduler
• Build A Chat App with Sentiment Analysis
• Build A Full Stack Web Application Setup
• Create Todoist clone with React and Firebase
• Build A Random Quote Machine
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
  • Part 7

Angular:

• Build an Instagram Clone with Angular 1.x

• Build an offline-capable Hacker News client with Angular 2+

  • Part 1
  • Part 2

• Build a Google+ clone with Django and AngularJS (Angular 1.x)

• Build A Beautiful Real World App with Angular 8 :

  • Part I
  • Part II

• Build Responsive layout with BootStrap 4 and Angular 6

• ToDo App with Angular 5

  • Introduction to Angular
  • Part 1

Node:

• Build A Simple Website With Node,Express and MongoDB
• Build a real-time Markdown Editor with NodeJS
• Test-Driven Development with Node, Postgres and Knex
• Write a Twitter Bot in Node.js
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Create A Simple RESTFUL Web App
• Build A Simple Search Bot in 30 minutes
• Build A Job Scraping Web App

Vue

• Vue 2 + Firebase: How to build a Vue app with Firebase authentication system in 15 minutes
• Vue.js Application Tutorial – Creating a Simple Budgeting App with Vue
• Build a Blog with Vue, GraphQL and Apollo
• Build a full stack web application using MEVN (MongoDB, Express, Vue, Node) stack
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Vue.js To-Do List Tutorial (video)

Others (Hapi, Express...):

• Build a Progressive Web Application (PWA)
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Build A Support Ticket Application With AdonisJs
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Build A Native Desktop App with JS
• Build a Powerful API with NodeJs,GraphQL and Hapi
  • Part I

D3.js

• Learn D3 using examples
• Learn To Make A Line Chart

Game Development:

• Make 2D Breakout Game using Phaser
• Make Flappy Bird in HTML5 and JavaScript with Phaser
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

Desktop Application:

• Build a Music Player with React & Electron
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Build A Desktop Chat App with React and Electron

Miscellaneous:

• How to Build a Web Framework in Less Than 20 Lines of Code
• Build Yourself a Redux
• How to write your own Virtual DOM
• Build A Realtime Serverless GraphQL API with WebSockets on AWS

Kotlin:

• Keddit - Learn Kotlin While Developing an Android Application

Lua:

LÖVE:

• BYTEPATH: Creation of a Complete Game with Lua and LÖVE
  • Part 0: Introduction
  • Part 1: Game Loop
  • Part 2: Libraries
  • Part 3: Rooms and Areas
  • Part 4: Exercises
  • Part 5: Game Basics
  • Part 6: Player Basics
  • Part 7: Player Stats and Attacks
  • Part 8: Enemies
  • Part 9: Director and Gameplay Loop
  • Part 10: Coding Practices
  • Part 11: Passives
  • Part 12: More Passives
  • Part 13: Skill Tree
  • Part 14: Console
  • Part 15: Final

Python:

Web Scraping:

• Mining Twitter Data with Python
• Scrape a Website with Scrapy and MongoDB
• How To Scrape With Python and Selenium WebDriver
• Which Movie Should I Watch using BeautifulSoup

Web Applications:

• Build a Microblog with Flask
• Create a Blog Web App In Django
  • Part I : Introduction
  • Part II : Extension To Add More Features
• Choose Your Own Adventure Presentations
• Build a Todo List with Flask and RethinkDB
• Build a Todo List with Django and Test-Driven Development
• Build a RESTful Microservice in Python
• Microservices with Docker, Flask, and React
• Build A Simple Web App With Flask
• Build a RESTful API with Flask – The TDD Way
• Create A Django API in under 20 minutes

Bots:

• Build a Reddit Bot
• How to Make a Reddit Bot - YouTube (video)
• Build a Facebook Messenger Bot
• Making a Reddit + Facebook Messenger Bot
• How To Create a Telegram Bot Using Python
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Create a Twitter Bot In Python

Data Science:

• Learn Python For Data Science by Doing Several Projects (video):
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Part 2: Twitter Sentiment Analysis
  • Part 3: Recommendation Systems
  • Part 4: Predicting Stock Prices
  • Part 5: Deep Dream in TensorFlow
  • Part 6: Genetic Algorithms

Machine Learning:

• Write Linear Regression From Scratch in Python (video)
• Step-By-Step Machine Learning In Python
• Predict Quality Of Wine
• Solving A Fruits Classification Problem
• Learn Unsupervised Learning with Python
• Build Your Own Neural Net from Scratch in Python
• Linear Regression in Python without sklearn
• Multivariate Linear Regression without sklearn
• Music Recommender using KNN
• Find Similar Quora Questions-
  • Using BOW, TFIDF and Xgboost
  • Using Word2Vec and Xgboost

OpenCV:

• Build A Document Scanner
• Build A Face Detector using OpenCV and Deep Learning
• Build a Face Recognition System using OpenCV, Python and Deep Learning
• Detect The Salient Features in an Image
• Build A Barcode Scanner
• Learn Face Clustering with Python
• Object Tracking with Camshift
• Semantic Segmentation with OpenCV and Deep Learning
• Text Detection in Images and Videos
• People Counter using OpenCV
• Tracking Multiple Objects with OpenCV
• Neural Style Transfer with OpenCV
• OpenCV OCR and Text Recognition
• Text Skew Correction Tutorial
• Facial Landmark Detection Tutorial
• Object Detection using Mask-R-CNN
• Automatic Target Detection Tutorial
• EigenFaces using OpenCV
• Faster(5-point) Facial Landmark Detection Tutorial
• Hand Keypoint Detection
• Dlib Correlation Object Tracking -
  • Single Object Tracker
  • Mutiple Object Tracker
• Image Stitching with OpenCV and Python
• Instance Segmentation with OpenCV
• Face mask detector

Deep Learning:

• Using Convolutional Neural Nets to Detect Facial Keypoints
• Generate an Average Face using Python and OpenCV
• Break A Captcha System using CNNs
• Use pre-trained Inception model to provide image predictions
• Create your first CNN
• Build A Facial Recognition Pipeline
• Build An Image Caption Generator
• Make your Own Face Recognition System
• Train a Language Detection AI in 20 minutes
• Object Detection With Neural Networks
• Learn Twitter Sentiment Analysis -
  • Part I - Data Cleaning
  • Part II - EDA, Data Visualisation
  • Part III - Zipf's Law, Data Visualisation
  • Part IV - Feature Extraction(count vectoriser)
  • Part V - Feature Extraction(Tfidf vectoriser)
  • Part VI - Doc2Vec
  • Part VII - Phrase Modeling + Doc2Vec
  • Part VIII - Dimensionality Reduction
  • Part IX - Neural Nets with Tfdif vectors
  • Part X - Neural Nets with word2vec/doc2vec
  • Part XI - CNN with Word2Vec
• Use Transfer Learning for custom image classification
• Learn to Code a simple Neural Network in 11 lines of Python
• Build a Neural Network using Gradient Descent Approach
• Train a Keras Model To Generate Colors
• Get Started with Keras on a Custom Dataset
• Use EigenFaces and FisherFaces on Faces94 dataset
• Kaggle MNIST Digit Recognizer Tutorial
• Fashion MNIST tutorial with tf.keras
• CNN using Keras to automatically classify root health
• Keras vs Tensorflow
• Deep Learning and Medical Image Analysis for Malaria Detection
• Transfer Learning for Image Classification using Keras
• Code a Smile Classifier using CNNS in Python
• Natural Language Processing using scikit-learn
• Code a Taylor Swift Lyrics Generator

Miscellaneous:

• Build a Simple Interpreter
• Build a Simple Blockchain in Python
• Write a NoSQL Database in Python
• Building a Gas Pump Scanner with OpenCV/Python/iOS
• Build a Distributed Streaming System with Python and Kafka
• Writing a basic x86-64 JIT compiler from scratch in stock Python
• Making a low level (Linux) debugger
  • Part 1
  • Part 2: C
• Implementing a Search Engine
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Build the Game of Life
• Create terminal ASCII art
• Write a Tic-Tac-Toe AI
• Create photomosaic art
• Build the game "Snake" in the terminal
• Write yourself a Git
• A Python implementation of a Python bytecode runner

Go:

• Create a Real Time Chat App with Golang, Angular 2, and WebSocket
• Building Go Web Applications and Microservices Using Gin
• How to Use Godog for Behavior-driven Development in Go et started with Godog
• Building Blockchain in Go
  • Part 1: Basic Prototype
  • Part 2: Proof of Work
  • Part 3: Persistence and CLI
  • Part 4: Transactions 1
  • Part 5: Address
  • Part 6: Transactions 2
  • Part 7: Network
• Build Web Application with GoLang
• Building a container from scratch in Go - Liz Rice (Microscaling Systems)
• Let's build a URL shortener in Go - with Gin & Redis
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4

PHP:

• How To Build A Blog With Laravel (video)
• Make Your Own Blog (in Pure PHP)
• Build A Real Estate Website Example with SilverStripe
• Building Realtime Chat App with Laravel 5.4 and VueJS (video)
• Build A Social Network: Laravel 5 - Youtube (video)
• Build a full-featured multi-tenant app with Laravel
  • Part 0: Introduction
  • Part 1: Setup
  • Part 2: Roles and Permissinos
  • Part 3: Invitation
  • Part 4: Authentication
  • Part 5: Testing
  • Part 6: User Profile
  • Part 7: Deployment

OCaml:

• Implement a Language with LLVM in OCaml

Ruby:

• Build a Network Stack with Ruby
• Build your own Redis
  • Part 0: Introduction
  • Part 1: Barebones TCP Server
  • Part 2: PING <-> PONG
  • Part 3: Concurrent Clients
  • Part 4: ECHO

Ruby on Rails:

• The Ruby on Rails Tutorial
• Build Instagram From Scratch with Ruby on Rails
• Build a Social Network using Rails
• How To Build a Ruby on Rails Application

Haskell:

• Write You a Haskell - Build a modern functional compiler
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 hours
• Write You A Scheme, Version 2
• Roll Your Own IRC Bot
• Let's Build A Basic Compiler in Haskell
• Making Movie Monad
• Making a Website with Haskell (outdated)

R:

• Build Web Apps with Shiny
• Build A Cryptocurrency Bot
• Learn Associate Rule Mining in R

Rust:

• A Simple Web App in Rust
  • Part 1
  • Part 2a
  • Part 2b
• Write an OS in pure Rust
• Build a browser engine in Rust
• Write a Microservice in Rust
• Learning Rust with Too Many Linked Lists
• Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch
  • Part 1: Implementing WebSocket. Introduction.
  • Part 2: Sending and Receiving Messages
• Writing a Rust Roguelike for the Desktop and the Web
• Single Page Applications using Rust
• Writing NES Emulator in Rust
• Create a simulation of evolution using neural network and genetic algorithm, and compile the application to WebAssembly
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4

Scala:

• Simple actor-based blockchain
• No Magic: Regular Expressions

Swift:

• Hacking with Swift - Learn Swift by doing 39 projects
• Retro first-person shooter from scratch

Additional Resources

• React Redux Links
• Full Stack Python
• Node School
• ScotchIO
• Exercism
• Egghead.io
• Michael Herman's Blog
• Thinkster.io
• C Project Based Tutorials
• Enlight
• Hack Club Workshops