# charlax/professional-programming

A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers

Repository: https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/professional-programming
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: read-articles, programmer, professional, scalability, concepts, documentation, lessons-learned, engineer, programming-language, learning, architecture, computer-science, software-engineering
Last push: 2026-07-15T15:55:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3952, "days_push": 49, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 51449, forks 4018 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:11.850838+00:00)

## What it is
A curated collection of books, articles, courses, and other learning resources for professional software engineers. It covers topics from algorithms and architecture to career growth and engineering management.

## Use cases
- find must-read books for software engineers
- learn software architecture concepts
- resources for growing to a staff engineer
- study computer science fundamentals
- find articles on scalability and system design
- improve my programming skills as a professional developer

## When to choose
- you want a curated, opinionated reading list for software engineering
- you are looking for learning material across a broad range of engineering topics
- you want career and mindset resources alongside technical ones

## When to avoid
- you need runnable code or a tool rather than reading material
- you want structured interactive courses instead of links
- you need a single-topic deep-dive resource

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: tutorials, awesome-lists, developer-tools, education
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: awesome-list, reading-list, career-growth, computer-science, architecture, books-and-articles, software-engineering

## Member repositories
- charlax/professional-programming (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:11.850838+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:19:45.601159+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:11.850838+00:00, sha a4b766da7cfc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.