Useful Crap

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

Alchemize

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

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

Codeivate

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.

GitHub Hackathon Starter

A boilerplate for Node.js web applications.

Hacker News

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".

How much to make an app?

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

How long to learn to code?

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

IFTTT

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.

Prezi

Better looking than Google Slides and PowerPoint and easier to create than Keynote.

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

Product Hunt

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.

Quick Look Plugins

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

Quora

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.

Read Quote of Patrick Mathieson's answer to Who are the best people to follow on Quora in the technology/tech start up world? on Quora

Slides Carnival

Find free presentation templates for Google Slides and focus on communicating your ideas.

Student Rate

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

For free.

Every day.

Thoughtbot Laptop

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