Tools & Resources

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/

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
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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++