Additional Resources for ECS 60

Version Control

• Intro to Distributed Version Control (Illustrated)
• ECS 60 Git Information

C++ Development

• C++ FAQ
• C++ Language Tutorial by Juan Soulie
• STL: SGI STL Reference, Dinkumware Compleat Reference
• How to Throw and Catch Exceptions
• Google C++ Style Guide
• Herb Sutter's Guru of the Week
• C++ Books:
  • The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup - an excellent reference book by the creator of the language
  • C++ Primer by Lippman et al. - a more gentle discussion of C++ than the above book
  • I have heard good things about the books from: Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter, and Bruce Eckel (free online).
• make: Introduction to the UNIX Make Utility, GNU make Manual
• Debugging: Matloff's Debugging Tutorials, C++ Pretty Printing for gdb, gdb Manual, valgrind
• Testing: Write a test program from scratch. Or, you can save some typing by using a framework such as googletest, boost, CppUnit, CppTest. Developerworks also has a few helpful articles on these frameworks.
• Profiling (or why is my program so slow?): Use gdb as a Poor Man's Profiler or gprof if you're a bit more adventurous.

Unix

• The man(1) command
• Matloff's Tutorials: Unix-the Bare Minimum, Emacs, Installing Linux
• Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide by Machtelt Garrels (available online and in print)
• Bash Guide for Beginners by Machtelt Garrels
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper
• The Linux Documentation Project HOWTOs and Guides
• O'Reilly Books (many are available online through the UCD Library via O'Reilly Safari)

Matthew Van Gundy
Last Modified January 10, 2011.