This is a personal study shelf: books, courses, reference material, and talks I have found useful. Checked items are things I have completed or worked through; unchecked items are next in the queue.

For projects and people I follow publicly, start with GitHub, Mastodon, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.

Programming

• The C Programming Language
• C Programming: A Modern Approach
• The C++ Programming Language
• The Rust Programming Language
• Rust in Action
• Rust for Rustaceans

General

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Code Complete
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Microsoft Application Architecture Guide
• Beginner's guide to SIMD
• From Nand to Tetris
• Computers as Components
• The Practice of Programming
• Computer Science from the Bottom Up

Maths

• Essential mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications

Rendering

• Computer Graphics
• Computer Graphics II: Rendering
• Ray Marching and Signed Distance Functions
• Scratchapixel.com
• A Primer On Efficient Rendering Algorithms & Clustered Shading
• How to build a BVH
• Ray Tracing for Graphics
• Ray Tracing Gems
• Ray Tracing Gems 2
• Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan
• Real-Time Optimally Adapting Meshes: Terrain Visualization in Games

Graphics APIs

• LearnOpenGL.com
• OpenGL Es 3.0 Programming Guide
• Webgl Programming Guide
• VulkanTutorial.com
• Vulkan Samples
• VkGuide
• How To Vulkan

Gamedev

• Game Programming Patterns
• Game Programming Algorithms and Techniques

OS

• Computation Structures
• Introduction to Operating Systems
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Networking

• Unix Network Programming
• Introduction to Sockets
• Computer Networks From Scratch

Performance

• Up Your Game! Know Your Intel GPU Architecture

IDE

• Explaining rust-analyzer