Software Development Resources

These are a few of the resources that I have found useful.

C++ Programming Books

• Large Scale C++ Software Design by John Lakos
  Souce code for building tools in Large Scale C++ Software Design using Visual C++ 6.0
• Effective C++ by Scott Meyers
• More Effective C++ by Scott Meyers
• Effective STL by Scott Meyers
• Thinking in C++, Second Edition by Bruce Eckel (Also online)
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma et al
• Generative Programming by Kryzsztof Czarnecki and Ulrich W. Eisenecker (website)
• Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu
  I tried building the Loki library with Visual C++ 6.0 but failed with C2954 errors because of Microsoft's non-compliance with the C++ specification.

Magazine Articles

• Brian, Marc, "Simple Unit Tests in C++" C/C++ User Journal, July 2000.
  Modified source code from article

Software and Architecture Books

• Abstracting Craft by Malcolm McCullough
• A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander et al

Software Development

• Machine Beauty by David Gelernter
• Tog on Software Design by Bruce Tognazzini
• The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin
• The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper

Software Tools

• PC-Lint by Gimpel Software is the best software development tool available. It is a C and C++ source code analyzer which I would recommend for anyone who uses C or C++ and wants to improve the quality of their code.
• GNU C++ Compiler
• Borland C++ 5.5 free C++ compiler and linker tools
• STLPort C++ STL Implementation

Software Development Web Sites

• (new) Hands Across the Screen: Why Scrollbars are on the Right and Other Stories by Alan Dix
  The Code Project
• Community Code
• MFC & OpenGL
• Pie Menu Central
• Paul Bourke

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