Useful Crap | Intro to CS

When you're a big fan of oxymorons, titles like Useful Crap become all too common.

We'll go over miscellaneous stuff (websites, app, etc.) that might be of use to you as a CS major.

Quick Overview

Alchemize
Codeivate
GitHub Hackathon Starter
Hacker News
How much to make an app?
How long to learn to code?
IFTTT
Prezi
Product Hunt
Quick Look Plugins
Quora
Slides Carnival
Student Rate
Thoughtbot Laptop

Sometimes you just need to minify or pretty-print your code.

Enter: Alchemize, your one app for dealing with code on the web.

Insight, motivation and benchmarking for programmers.

Earn points as you code, compare yourself to others. Gain insight into your most productive languages and times of day.

A boilerplate for Node.js web applications.

Hacker News is a social news website that caters to programmers and entrepreneurs, delivering content related to computer science and entrepreneurship.

In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

Easily calculate the cost of a mobile application using this handy tool

Easily calculate how long it'll take to "learn to code" and build your app idea with this free tool!

Put the internet to work for you.

So many tasks you do every day can be automated.

There's no reason you have to manually backup your Instagram pictures to Dropbox or see if an important email came in or even check the weather to see if it's going to rain.

Instead, all of this could happen automatically with an automation service like IFTTT.

Those other platforms mentioned are pretty powerful too, but Prezi deserves a try.

Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone's talking about.

List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers that work on OSX.

Quora is your best source for knowledge and aims to be the easiest place to write new content and share content from the web.

Also, a lot of cool tech people are on Quora and will actually answer questions people pose to them.

College students get discounts on textbooks, travel, fashion, festivals, etc.

For free.

Every day.

A shell script which turns your OS X laptop into an awesome web development machine.

Last updated 2 years ago

When you're a big fan of oxymorons, titles like Useful Crap become all too common.

We'll go over miscellaneous stuff (websites, app, etc.) that might be of use to you as a CS major.

Quick Overview

Alchemize
Codeivate
GitHub Hackathon Starter
Hacker News
How much to make an app?
How long to learn to code?
IFTTT
Prezi
Product Hunt
Quick Look Plugins
Quora
Slides Carnival
Student Rate
Thoughtbot Laptop

Sometimes you just need to minify or pretty-print your code.

Enter: Alchemize, your one app for dealing with code on the web.

Insight, motivation and benchmarking for programmers.

Earn points as you code, compare yourself to others. Gain insight into your most productive languages and times of day.

A boilerplate for Node.js web applications.

Hacker News is a social news website that caters to programmers and entrepreneurs, delivering content related to computer science and entrepreneurship.

In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

Easily calculate the cost of a mobile application using this handy tool

Easily calculate how long it'll take to "learn to code" and build your app idea with this free tool!

Put the internet to work for you.

So many tasks you do every day can be automated.

There's no reason you have to manually backup your Instagram pictures to Dropbox or see if an important email came in or even check the weather to see if it's going to rain.

Instead, all of this could happen automatically with an automation service like IFTTT.

Better looking than and and easier to create than .

Those other platforms mentioned are pretty powerful too, but Prezi deserves a try.

Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone's talking about.