Programming resources

Please note that as of 04/2009, the "aviation standards & information" section has been moved to a new page Aviation Standards & Information. This also applies to the "Free GIS data" section which can now be found at Scenery Development Resources.

As of 09/2009, there's also a new section titled Ground Traffic Simulation Resources specifically dedicated to collecting resources related to improving FlightGear's support for modeling ground traffic.

Source Code Management

• Intro to Source Control
• Git Magic - Introduction

Software Engineering

• Guru of the Week
• The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
• How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters [1]
• A brief look at file format design
• QuickStudy: Application Programming Interface (API)
• http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/valve-multicore.ars
• Introduction to Distributed System Design

Scripting

• Use Scripting Languages when possible
• Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century
• On Scripting Languages

Pointer Basics

• Binky Pointer Fun Video
• First Look at Pointers
• General Talk on Pointers
• Pointers and Arrays
• Introduction to Pointers & Memory Managements
• Pointers in C and C++
• A TUTORIAL ON POINTERS AND ARRAYS IN C
• Using osg::ref_ptr

Optimization

• Optimization Basics
• Optimizing C++ (http://www.agner.org/optimize/)
• C++ Optimization Strategies and Techniques
• Writing Efficient Programs

Programming - Background knowledge

• Interactive Multimedia Flash Course, introducing C-family of programming languages
• Introduction to Programming using C++ (CS106B Stanford University) (~ 30 videos teaching programming and C++)

C++ Courses

• C++ in 5 days [2]
• http://www.learncpp.com/
• http://www.cprogramming.com/
• http://www.cplusplus.com
• http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~rjp/Coursewww/CPPwww/index.html
• http://www.thefreecountry.com/documentation/onlinecpp.shtml
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=20#214
• http://www.cpp4u.com/
• C++ related presentations:
  • Memory Management in C++
  • http://www.slideshare.net/reachanil/static-and-dynamic-polymorphism-in-c/
  • http://www.slideshare.net/emery/automatically-tolerating-and-correcting-memory-errors

• Youtube Contents:
  • An Introduction to C++
  • A number of introductory C++ Tutorials
  • Getting C++ Threads right
  • Advanced Topics in Programming Languages Series: C++ Threads

• Other Videos:
  • http://www.fafiles.com/cpp_index.php
  • http://www.gotmyidea.com/cat/c-video-tutorials
  • http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/C++/

C++ eBooks

• http://www.computer-books.us/cpp.php
• http://www.mycplus.com/c.asp?ID=15
• C++ Wikibook
• http://www.freetechbooks.com/forum-3.html
• http://www.techbooksforfree.com/ccpp.shtml
• http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/cppbooks.html
• http://www.docnmail.com/learn/CCpp.htm
• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C++
• C++ Essentials
• Guide to C++
• C++ Programming for the absolute beginner
• Introduction to Game Programming with C++
• C++ for Mathematicians: An Introduction for STudents and Professionals
• C++ How to Program 5th Edition
• Professional C++
• Misc other freely available books
• BookTraining.net

C++ References

• http://www.informit.com/guides/guide.aspx?g=cplusplus
• C++ FAQ Lite
• C++ Frequently Questioned Answers
• http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/languages/C++.html
• C++ for C users

C++/STL

• C++ Cheat Sheet (Usage of STL containers)
• http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/
• STL: http://www.dinkumware.com/manuals/default.aspx
• http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialC++STL.html
• http://www.halpernwightsoftware.com/stdlib-scratch/quickref.html

Graphics Programming

• Graphics Programming Black Book

Game Programming related

• Game Programming Wiki
• http://www.itstudy8.org/c++.asp
• http://www.itstudy8.org/GameProgramming.asp
• http://www.itstudy8.org/gameGeneral.asp
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=45

Programming General

• http://www.itstudy8.org/ObjectOriented.asp
• http://www.itstudy8.org/ProgrammingGeneral.asp

General OpenGL Resources

• http://www.opengl.org/documentation/red_book/ - Learning OpenGL
• http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/380/2007/slides/OpenGL_6up.pdf
• http://www.opengl.org/documentation/blue_book/ - OpenGL Reference Manual
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=31
• http://www.itstudy8.org/OpenGL.asp
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Opengl
• Youtube Introductions to OpenGL:
  • Graphics Programming
  • Graphics Programming Using OpenGL
  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=oVwH8KV1xnY
  • Various introductory OpenGL tutorials
• Columns
  • OpenGL Lighting
  • alpha sorting
  • Euler Angles are evil
  • Learning to Love your Z-Buffer
  • matrices can be your friend

OpenGL Shaders

• http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/glsl/
• http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/glsl/index.php
• http://www.opengl.org/documentation/glsl/
• Shader Tutorials
• Sampe Code & Tutorials

Tutorials

• GLSL Shading with OpenSceneGraph

References

• Quick Reference

Free Software

• http://ati.amd.com/developer/rendermonkey/
• Linux/KDE:
  • http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/QShaderEdit?content=42586

3D Maths

• http://home.clara.net/iancgbell/maths/index.htm
• LOD Intro

OSG/OpenSceneGraph related

• A brief introduction to OSG (Recommended!)
• OpenSceneGraph QuickStart Guide (Recommended!)
• OpenSceneGraph Advanced
• http://www.vis-sim.com/osg/osg_faq_1.htm
• http://faculty.nps.edu/jasullivan/osgtutorials/
• http://andesengineering.com/OSG_ProducerArticles/RefPointers/RefPointers.html
• http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~malloy/courses/3dgames-2007/tutor/

Communities

(Forums, Newsgroups, Mailing Lists & Chat rooms)

• http://episteme.arstechnica.com/
• http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/
• http://www.codeguru.com/forum/
• http://cboard.cprogramming.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3
• http://www.cpp-home.com/forum/index.php
• C++ Learning Community

Networking

• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• http://dme.uma.pt/jcardoso/Teaching/SD/Sockets%20C.pdf
• http://www.mobiustech.ie/docs/TCP_IP_Programming.pdf
• http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~rzheng/course/COSC6397sp2008/Advanced_Socket_Programming.pdf
• http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs4254/spring06/slides/IO_Multiplexing_4.pdf
• http://irl.eecs.umich.edu/jamin/courses/eecs494/fall06/lectures/lecture9-socket.pdf
• http://ece.ut.ac.ir/Classpages/S84/Network/unix/Npc13.ppt
• http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mlewis/csX28/slides/csX28-UDPSockets.ppt
• Performance Management Guide-Tuning TCP and UDP Performance
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1
• Sockets Tutorial

Unix Sockets

• Network Programming under Unix Systems
• Unix Network Programming
• The Art of Unix Programming
• BSD Sockets: a quick and dirty primer

Windows Sockets

• Windosck Programmer's FAQ
• The Windows Sckets Lame List

Protocol Design

• Protocol Design Guidelines
• Writing Protocol Models

Multiplayer Design & Programming

Basics

• GameDev.net Multiplayer FAQ
• Introduction to Multiplayer Game Programming
• Introduction: Designing Multiplayer Games
• UDP vs. TCP
• Networking for Games 101
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• Networking for game programmers
• Programming Multiplayer Games - ebook

Design & General

• QoS Issues for Multiplayer Gaming
• Networking and Multiplayer Games
• Unreal Networking Engine
• Quake3 Networking Model
• Network Game Programming (flipcode)
• Aspects of Networking in Multiplayer Games
• Design of communications, competition and collaboration in online games (pdf)
• Scalable massive multiplayer games (pdf)
• Multiplayer Tips and Tricks from GDC 2004

State Management & Prediction

• Network State Interpolation
• Dead Reckoning:Latency Hiding for Networked Games
• Defeating Lag With Cubic Splines
• Distributed Gaming
• Statistical Client Prediction
• Networked Physics
• Cheat-Proof Playout for Centralized and Distributed Online Games

Compression / Effiency

• Designing Fast-Action Games For The Internet
• Using Groupings for Networked Gaming
• Distributing Object State for Networked Games Using Object Views
• An Efficient Synchronization Mechanism for Mirrored Game Architectures (pdf)

Security

• Security in Online Games
• Security Issues of Online Gaming
• The Essentials of Multiplayer Games

Libraries

• http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Libraries#Networking

See also

• Aircraft Information Resources
• Modeling Resources