List of landmark computing topics, theories and patterns that shaped technology and software development and engineering.

Over the years, I've learned so much from so many key individuals. Here's a place where I've compiled some of the best articles, presentations and links across the computing subject as a way to share knowledge. Special call out to mentors who throughout my career have introduced these topics to me when I didn't know to be curious about them: (in no particular order) David Brailer, Timi Leslie, Julie Vaughan Murchinson, Tim Andrews, Lori Evans-Bernstein, Lee Jones, Missy Kranser, Alan Kay, Joseph Ray.

Better Angels of our Nature

The C Programming Language Also known as K&R, this book was written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. It was one of my first programming languages and gave me a fundamental understanding of pointers, in particular.

Brief History of the Internet

Mythical Man Month Insight: Adding manpower to late project makes it later.
Agile@Scale / Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Joel on Software is a great set of articles about software development. He's the guy behind Trello, Stack Overflow.

Brief History of the Internet

Key contributors to the field of computing

1. Gorden Bell
2. Doug Engelbart - Mother of All Demos
3. Robert E. Kahn
4. Alan Kay. Object oriented programming and user interfaces.
5. Leonard Kleinrock. Packet switching theory. Use packets rather than circuits for communications.
6. Donald Knuth. Art of Computer Programming. Analysis of algorithms.
7. Linus Torvalds. Linux creator. Git creator.
8. Joel Spolksy. Trello creator. Good writer about key topics in software.