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Programming & Open Source

• The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (UC Berkeley CS 61A)
• Data Structures (UC Berkeley CS 61B)
• Programming from the ground up (PDF)
• Producing OSS
• Programming online courses

Source Code Management

• Intro to Source Control
• Git Magic - Introduction
• http://git-scm.com/book
• http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf

Software Engineering

• Software Engineering Playlist
• 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
• http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/valve-multicore.ars

Scripting

• 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
• Using osg::ref_ptr

Optimization

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

Programming - Background knowledge

• Programming Abstraction in C++ (CS106B Stanford University)(~ 27 videos teaching programming and C++)

C++ Courses

• http://www.learncpp.com/
• http://www.cprogramming.com/
• http://www.cplusplus.com
• http://www.thefreecountry.com/documentation/onlinecpp.shtml
• 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:
  • C++ (Yan Chernikov)
  • A number of introductory C++ Tutorials
  • Getting C++ Threads right
  • Advanced Topics in Programming Languages Series: C++ Threads

C++ eBooks

• http://www.mycplus.com/c.asp?ID=15
• C++ Wikibook
• http://www.techbooksforfree.com/ccpp.shtml
• C++ Essentials

C++ References

• 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++ Standard Template Library by Example
• 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
• Build a Game Engine in C++ (Yan Chernikov)
• Beginning Game Programming with C & Simple DirectMedia Layer
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=45

General OpenGL Resources

• Learn OpenGL Graphics Programming
• OpenGL Programming Guide (Red Book)
• OpenGL Reference Manual (Blue Book)
• OpenGL Light and Polygon Surface Tutorials
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Opengl
• Youtube Introductions to OpenGL:
  • OpenGL (Yan Chernikov)
  • 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

3D Maths

• http://home.clara.net/iancgbell/maths/index.htm
• Linear Algebra
• Math for Game Developers

OSG/OpenSceneGraph related

• https://www.openscenegraph.com/index.php/documentation/getting-started
• OSG Quick Start Guide
• http://thermalpixel.github.io/osg/2014/02/15/rtt-with-slave-cameras.html
• http://www.vis-sim.com/osg/osg_faq_1.htm
• http://andesengineering.com/OSG_ProducerArticles/RefPointers/RefPointers.html
• http://beefdev.blogspot.de/2012/01/render-to-texture-in-openscenegraph.html

Communities

(Forums, Newsgroups, Mailing Lists & Chat rooms)

• https://www.gamedev.net/forums/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/
• https://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/

Networking

• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• 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
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1
• Sockets Tutorial

Unix Sockets

• Network Programming under Unix Systems
• Unix Network Programming
• The Art of Unix Programming (HTML)
• The Art of Unix Programming (PDF)

Windows Sockets

• Windosck Programmer's FAQ

Protocol Design

• Protocol Design Guidelines
• Writing Protocol Models

Multiplayer Design & Programming

Basics

• Introduction: Designing Multiplayer Games
• UDP vs. TCP
• Networking for Games 101
• Networking for game programmers
• Programming Multiplayer Games - ebook

State Management & Prediction

• Defeating Lag With Cubic Splines
• Distributed Gaming
• Statistical Client Prediction
• Networked Physics

Security

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

Libraries

• https://wiki.ogre3d.org/Home

See also

• Aircraft Information Resources
• Modeling Resources