What it is
Best Websites a Programmer Should Visit is a curated-list repository, not a utility or a library. Its job is to help programmers quickly find useful sites for different situations: getting unstuck, practicing, looking for project ideas, reading news, or choosing learning material.
The sdmg15/Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit repository has been on GitHub since 2017 and uses the MIT license. Its topics include books, sites, programmer, links, and cs. The README is large and works as a category index.
How the list is organized
The structure is the main value. It includes sections for getting stuck, news, magazines, beginner practice, advice, coding style, general tools, Bash, interview preparation, documentaries, courses, language-specific sites, AI, articles, podcasts, and computer books.
A typical curated-list format
This fragment shows how such a repository turns link chaos into task-based navigation. The user chooses the nearest situation, not simply the most popular link.
## When you get stuck
- Stack Overflow
- Debugging guides
## Coding practice
- Beginner exercises
- Competitive programming
## Project ideas
- Small apps
- Build-your-own listsWhere it helps
The list works well as a starting page for self-education. It shows beginners the breadth of programming resources and helps experienced people remember useful places outside their usual few sites.
These repositories work best as a map. They cannot guarantee that every external site stays good forever, but they provide directions: learn, read, watch others code, practice, prepare for interviews, find tools, and collect ideas.
Strengths and tradeoffs
The strength is breadth and simple structure. When a list is maintained by a community, it collects more sources than one author would keep in mind.
The tradeoff is link aging. Sites close, change focus, become paid, or stop updating. This kind of list should be used as navigation, not as a quality seal: each link still needs to be judged by freshness, depth, and fit for the task.