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== How to contribute ==
These are all links to external and publicly available sources, no guarantees / responsibility inferred.
If there are resources you like and would like to recommend, post them on the Discord and mention r_vdw.

== Windows productivity apps ==
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|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#DDF;color:black;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;"|Name
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;"|Description
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;"|Link
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|What's so great?
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|FrHed
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Versatile binary file / hex editor
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://sourceforge.net/projects/frhed/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|HxD
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Good freeware hex and disk editor
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Slidytip
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|ShareX
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Screen capture / file sharing
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://getsharex.com/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Notepad++
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Source code editor and Notepad replacement
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Codeshare
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Handy tool to share code snippets
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://codeshare.io/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Self destructs in 24 hrs
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Gimp
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Cross-platform image editor (GNU/Linux,OS X,Windows,...
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://www.gimp.org/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|-
|}

== Online compiling / testing / visualization ==
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#DDF;color:black;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;"|Name
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;"|Description
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;"|Link
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|What's so great?
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Compiler Explorer
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Matt Godbolt
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://godbolt.org/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Analyze and compare the way C++ code compiles across different compilers
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Ideone
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Online compiler and debugger (~60 languages)
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|http://www.ideone.com
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Wandbox
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Online compilation service
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://wandbox.org/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Data structure and algorithm visualization
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|USFCA / CS / David Galles
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|see it and you'll understand
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Active GitHub Forks
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|See who forked (&last committed) out of date GitHub libs/projects
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|
|}

== C++ Libraries ==
=== Game tooling / engines ===
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|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#DDF;color:black;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;"|Name
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;"|Description
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;"|Link
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|What's so great?
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|SFML
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://www.sfml-dev.org/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Easy to use, good functionality. Chili grabs it in Intermediate 25 (I25)
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Eigen
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|C++ template library for linear algebra 
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|chilitip
|}
=== Productivity ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|fmtlib 
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Open-source formatting library
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://fmt.dev/latest/index.html
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|fast/easy, Slidytip
|}

=== AI/ML ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|DLib
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|http://dlib.net/
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|
|}
=== Categorized / aggregation sites ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|cppreference libraries
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|As suggested by cppreference users
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/links/libs
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|boost C++ libraries
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|boost your shit
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|
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== Reference sites ==
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#DDF;color:black;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;"|Name
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;"|Description
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;"|Link
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|What's so great?
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|cppreference.com
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Most comprehensve reference site
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://en.cppreference.com
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Hardccore
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|cplusplus.com
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Good reference site
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|http://www.cplusplus.com
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Softcore
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Stack Overflow
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Good reference site
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://stackexchange.com/sites#
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Very active community
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|ISOcpp
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|The home of standard C++
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://isocpp.org/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|For those purists
|}

== Literature (books, blogs, papers, written shit)==
=== Programming Fundamentals ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#DDF;color:black;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;"|Name
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;"|Description
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;"|Link
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|What's so great?
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#ddf;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Harold Abelson et al. (2nd ed. 1996), MIT Press
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Just a classic
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Clean Code
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Robert C. Martin (14th ed. 2015), Prentice Hall
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780132350884/samplepages/9780132350884.pdf
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Sample chapter, then just buy it
|}

=== C++ Fundamentals ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|C++ Primer, 5th Edition
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Stanley B. Lippman et al
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|http://www.charleshouserjr.com/Cplus2.pdf
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|Standard work, rewritten for C++11. Approachable for beginners
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|C++ Core Guidelines
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|Pure discipline, by the masters themselves
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Programming Abstractions in C++
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Eric S. Roberts (2012), Stanford CS106B
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Google using filetype:pdf
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Solid and well thought through intro to C++
|}

=== C++ Peculiarities ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Exploring std::string
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Nice blog that looks under the hood
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://shaharmike.com/cpp/std-string/
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|a tip from Slidy
|}

=== Game programming ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Game Programming Patterns
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Robert Nystrom
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com 
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|Contains lots of different coding patterns and describes them in detail
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Game Engine Architecture
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by ..
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Talks about various components that make up a game engine and how they tie together
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|
|}

=== 3D Computer Graphics ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|The Book of Shaders
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://thebookofshaders.com (pdf can be generated)
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by André LaMothe, 2003
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Google using filetype:pdf
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|lagout
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Eric Lengyel (3rd ed.)
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Google using filetype:pdf
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Need those math skills
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications: A Programmer’s Guide
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by James M. Van Verth, Lars M. Bishop (2nd ed.)
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Google using filetype:pdf
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Math yo
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Vector Math for 3D Computer Graphics Tutorial
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Bradley Kjell
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://chortle.ccsu.edu/vectorlessons/vectorindex.html 
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Demon liked it
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Computing Euler angles from a rotation matrix
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Gregory G. Slabaugh
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|http://www.gregslabaugh.net/publications/euler.pdf
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|Chilitip
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|D3D/OpenGL  tutorial: A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Fabian Giesen
| style="border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline-2011-index/
| style="border:1px solid grey;"|
|}
=== DirectX ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|DirectX Developer  Blog
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by msft
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|
|}
=== Operating systems ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Modern Operating Systems
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Herbert Bos (4th ed. 2015)
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Google using filetype:pdf
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|Standard work
|}
=== AI ===
{| class="wikitable" style="border:1px solid grey;border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;"
|- style="border:1px solid grey;background-color:#667;color:#c1c1c1;text-align:center;"
| style="width:35%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
| style="width:30%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|by Peter Norvig
| style="width:20%;border:1px solid grey;text-align:left;"|https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
| style="width:15%;border:1px solid grey;"|Standard work, gotta love common lisp!
|}

== Other good shit ==
* Blender Guru [https://youtu.be/TPrnSACiTJ4 beginner series]

== ChiliWidsom ==
* "If you're building with warnings, you gotta re-evaluate your life choices" (I11hw)
* "Get your privates in order"