Tools & Resources

Useful Tools & Resources (WORK IN PROGRESS)

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

Name	Description	Link	What's so great?
FrHed	Versatile binary file / hex editor	https://sourceforge.net/projects/frhed/
HxD	Good freeware hex and disk editor	https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/	Slidytip
ShareX	Screen capture / file sharing	https://getsharex.com/
Notepad++	Source code editor and Notepad replacement	https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Codeshare	Handy tool to share code snippets	https://codeshare.io/	Self destructs in 24 hrs
Gimp	Cross-platform image editor (GNU/Linux,OS X,Windows,...	https://www.gimp.org/	-
Krita	Open source painting program	https://krita.org/	AP tip
Pyxel Edit	Pixel art editor (make tilesets, levels,animations) by Daniel Kvarfordt	https://pyxeledit.com/	AP tip
Vim	Source code editor, Notepad++ alternative	https://www.vim.org/download.php	Will make you shit bricks real good
Sublimle Text	Text editor for code, markup and prose	https://www.sublimetext.com/	Very versatile
Audacity Audio	Digital multi-track audio grabbing/recording/editing	https://www.audacityteam.org	Open source, dev in C/C++

Online compiling / testing / visualization

Name	Description	Link	What's so great?
Godbolt's Compiler Explorer	by Matt Godbolt	https://godbolt.org/	Analyze and compare the way C++ code compiles across different compilers
Ideone	Online compiler and debugger (~60 languages)	http://www.ideone.com
Wandbox	Online compilation service	https://wandbox.org/
Data structure and algorithm visualization	USFCA / CS / David Galles	https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html	see it and you'll understand
Active GitHub Forks	See who forked (&last committed) out of date GitHub libs/projects	https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

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. Chili grabs it in Intermediate 25 (I25)
Eigen	C++ template library for linear algebra	http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/	chilitip

Productivity

fmtlib

Open-source formatting library

https://fmt.dev/latest/index.html

fast/easy, Slidytip

AI/ML

DLib

C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms

http://dlib.net/

Categorized / aggregation sites

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	Hardccore
cplusplus.com	Good reference site	http://www.cplusplus.com	Softcore
Stack Overflow	Good reference site	https://stackexchange.com/sites#	Very active community
ISOcpp	The home of standard C++	https://isocpp.org/	For those purists

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
Clean Code	by Robert C. Martin (14th ed. 2015), Prentice Hall	https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780132350884/samplepages/9780132350884.pdf	Sample chapter, then just buy it

C++ Fundamentals

C++ Primer, 5th Edition	by Stanley B. Lippman et al	http://www.charleshouserjr.com/Cplus2.pdf	Standard work, rewritten for C++11. Approachable for beginners
C++ Core Guidelines	by Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter	http://isocpp.github.io/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++

C++ Peculiarities

Exploring std::string

Nice blog that looks under the hood

https://shaharmike.com/cpp/std-string/

a tip from Slidy

Game programming

Game Programming Patterns	by Robert Nystrom	https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com	Contains lots of different coding patterns and describes them in detail
Game Engine Architecture	by Jason Gregory (3rd ed. 2018)	https://www.gameenginebook.com/	Talks about various components that make up a game engine and how they tie together

3D Computer Graphics

The Book of Shaders	by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe	https://thebookofshaders.com (pdf can be generated)
Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus	by André LaMothe, 2003	Google using filetype:pdf	lagout
Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics	by Eric Lengyel (3rd ed.)	Google using filetype:pdf	Need those math skills
Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications: A Programmer’s Guide	by James M. Van Verth, Lars M. Bishop (2nd ed.)	Google using filetype:pdf	Math yo
Vector Math for 3D Computer Graphics Tutorial	by Bradley Kjell	https://chortle.ccsu.edu/vectorlessons/vectorindex.html	Demon liked it
Computing Euler angles from a rotation matrix	by Gregory G. Slabaugh	http://www.gregslabaugh.net/publications/euler.pdf	Chilitip
Coordinate geometry in 3D space	by Nabla Ltd.	http://www.nabla.hr/CG-CoGeometryContA.htm	BhayanakMoth tip
D3D/OpenGL tutorial: A trip through the Graphics Pipeline	by Fabian Giesen	https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline-2011-index/
Learn OpenGL	by Joey de Vries	http://learnopengl.com	Specific to OpenGL but well written and presented (Slidy)
Real-time Rendering	by Tomas Akenine-Möller et al (4th ed. 2018)	http://www.realtimerendering.com	Good reference for learning about a wide variety of topics/techniques used in real-time rendering (Slidy)

DirectX

DirectX Developer Blog

by msft

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/

Operating systems

Modern Operating Systems

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Herbert Bos (4th ed. 2015)

Google using filetype:pdf

Standard work

AI / ML / DL

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming	by Peter Norvig	https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp	Standard work, gotta love common lisp!
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach	by Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig(Pearson Edu Ltd 3rd edition)	http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/	Standard work
Deep Learning	by Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville (MIT Press 2016)	http://www.deeplearningbook.org	Solid intro into machine learning / deep learning

Other good shit

• Blender Guru beginner series

ChiliWisdom

• "If you're building with warnings, you gotta re-evaluate your life choices" (I11hw)
• "Get your privates in order"
• "For those of you who live in weird places that don't have Orios, I feel sorry for you. They look like this, and they are fucking delicious with milk." (B10)
• "Everything on a computer is a motherfucking number" (HUGS 11)
• "Don't turn yourself into a pretzel trying to fit all the STL components together to do everything in a single statement" (I16hw)
• "You can't touch your parent's privates. Don't do it, it's weird" (I17.1 on inheritance)
• “If you have someone’s address, you can fuck with them. Just ask any Twitch streamer” (I2 on pointers, tx DownUp)
• "What do you think you gotta use? Say it with me... std::move()"
• "With noexcept, the STL will now use your move constructor for great justice" (I22 on exceptions)