Updated 27/1/2003

Software Development Links

Misc

• SourceForge - online hub for open source software development
• Graphics Gems - all the source code from the books online
• Flipcode.com - excellent site for articles, code snippets and other development resources
• Gamasutra - ditto
• Software Patents Petition - petition against software patents in Europe (unfortunately the USA is too far gone)

Tools

• CVS - the definitive (and free!) revision control system for developers. Also CVS NT and a Win32 GUI WinCVS.
• Rational Purify and Quantify - excellent error checking and profiling tools
• Araxis Merge - best graphical merge tool for Windows that I've seen
• XXDiff - and a free one for Unix
• Doxygen - nice source code documentation generator for C++ and other languages
• Python - great scripting language with powerful library. Easily embedded as a scripting engine into C++ apps using a boost.org library

Libraries

• QT - excellent cross-platform development library
• boost.org - a collection of excellent C++ libraries, by many of the people on the C++ standards Comittee
• SGI's STL - great online docs for STL, even if you use a different implementation
• STL Port - STL library designed for cross-platform development
• libtiff - great library for handling TIFF image input/output
• zlib - free compression library, used in gzip
• PNG library - use PNG now that we can't use GIF thanks to Unisys

Math

• Wolframs's Math World - massive online math encyclopedia
• Numerical Recipes in C - excellent book with source code available in full online (PDF format)
• Dave's Short Trigonometry Course - nice trig overview/reference
• Paul Bourke's Site - lots of good math and graphics references here

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