Tools & Resources
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Useful Tools & Resources (WORK IN PROGRESS)
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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
| Name | Description | Link | What's so great? |
| FrHed | Versatile binary file / hex editor | https://sourceforge.net/projects/frhed/ | bl |
| ShareX | Screen capture / file sharing | https://getsharex.com/ | ble |
| Notepad++ | Source code editor and Notepad replacement | https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ | blah |
Online compiling / testing
| Name | Description | Link | What's so great? |
| Ideone | Online compiler and debugger (~60 languages) | http://www.ideone.com | |
| Wandbox | Online compilation service | https://wandbox.org/ |
C++ Libraries
Game tooling / engines
| Name | Description | Link | What's so great? |
| SFML | Simple and Fast Multimedia Library | https://www.sfml-dev.org/ | Easy to use, good functionality |
AI/ML
| Name | Description | Link | What's so great? |
| DLib | C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms | http://dlib.net/ |
Categorized / aggregation sites
| Name | Description | Link | What's so great? |
| cppreference libraries | As suggested by cppreference users | https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/links/libs | |
| boost C++ libraries | boost your shit | https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/ |
Reference sites
| Name | Description | Link | What's so great? |
| cppreference.com | Most comprehensve reference site | https://en.cppreference.com | Best of the best |
| cplusplus.com | Good reference site | http://www.cplusplus.com | More accessible |
| Stack Overflow | Good reference site | https://stackexchange.com/sites# | Very active community, but cocky culture |
Literature (books, blogs, papers, written shit)
Programming Fundamentals
| Name | Description | Link | What's so great? |
| Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | by Harold Abelson et al. (2nd ed. 1996), MIT Press | https://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf | Just a classic |
C++ Fundamentals
| Name | Description | Link | What's so great? |
| C++ Core Guidelines | by Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter | http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines | Pure discipline, by the masters themselves |
| Programming Abstractions in C++ | by Eric S. Roberts (2012), Stanford CS106B | Google using filetype:pdf | Solid and well thought through intro to C++ |
