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 / visualization
| 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/ | |
| Data structure and algorithm visualization | USFCA / CS / David Galles | https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html | see it and you'll understand |
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
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
C++ Fundamentals
| 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/ |
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 |
| 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/ |
Operating systems
| Modern Operating Systems | by Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Herbert Bos (4th ed. 2015) | Google using filetype:pdf | Standard work |
AI
| Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming | by Peter Norvig | https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp | Standard work, gotta love common lisp! |
