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Mine GO BOOM - Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:01 pm
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Photo editing
- Drawing Starfields - Pretty stars for backgrounds
- Drawing Planets - Pretty planets for foreground
- Complete Guide to Isometic Art - Can't do 2D or 3D? Who cares, this looks pretty and it is simple
Programming
- Doygen Manual - To better document your source code, because you are a lazy bastard
- POSIX Threads - Threading is the future, and this works on almost anything
- SDL - Because Java GUIs suck
  - Programming Linux Games - Free book on PDF that tells you how to do SDL and linux programming
- wxWidgets - Because sometimes SDL is too much
- Win32 API Tutorial - Because you want to smash your brains with a hammer
- Python - Because Perl is too much
- CPAN - Because Perl is too much
Microprocessors
- AVR Butterfly - Its only $20 and works via serial cable with a bootloader
- Beginners Site for AVR Butterfly - Never worked with a microprocessor before? Lots of tutorials and sample code
- WinAVR - C is much nicer to use than ASM constantly. So why not use GCC to program your AVR?
- AVR Studio - A free IDE and simulator for your AVR. You'll screw up somewhere, might as well debug it virtually as well.
- Electronic Circuits - Need some suggestions for what to hookup to your microcontroller.
Linux
- Using rsync for backups - You do make backups, right?
- Gentoo Wiki - Something broken? Even if you don't use Gentoo, usually tells you how to fix it here.

Muskrat - Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:15 pm
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The Elements of Style - Best book ever for any writing in the English language. Short and sweet.

SamHughes - Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:49 pm
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

K' - Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:28 pm
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Catch-All One Stop

Cyan~Fire - Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:41 pm
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Awesome.

*doxygen

Blocks - Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:06 am
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SamHughes wrote:

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

I used this book. I think I learned something, but I don't know because it was all in SCHEME!

Introductory Physics: Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Serway and Jewett (this is a real book)

Anonymous - Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:01 pm
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SamHughes wrote:

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Is there anything else like this but more up2date?

SamHughes - Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:46 pm
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Um, the second edition?

It is up to date.

Blocks - Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:18 pm
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SamHughes wrote:

It is up to date.

He is referring to the fact that the book teaches how to program in an awful language that makes you dream of burning parentheses.

I think the point of the book is to make sure you actually learn how to program. If the book taught in C++, there'd be some hot-shot programmer kiddo who thinks he's all that who would be able to do the exercises in that book easily ... without learning anything. Teaching in Scheme ensures that everybody has to learn to crawl, then walk, then run. Oh the metaphorical goodness.

Mine GO BOOM - Mon Dec 25, 2006 7:44 pm
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Programming
- Beej's Guide to Network Programming - For those of you that want to learn sockets

Solo Ace - Mon Dec 25, 2006 8:06 pm
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Yeah, really, how could you forget beej?

Quan Chi2 - Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:39 pm
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Programming

Programming tutorials

Code Project

Reversing/Application hacking

Reverse Engineering Forum

PullThePlug

Animate Dreams - Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:48 am
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

SDL - Because Java GUIs suck

Programming Linux Games - Free book on PDF that tells you how to do SDL and linux programming

The Linux PDF is down... Here's a rehost: http://pil.pl/~mariuszj/rozne/plg-second-printing-update.pdf . But on a side note, isn't SDL supposed to be cross-platform?

Cyan~Fire - Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:00 pm
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Animate Dreams wrote:

The Linux PDF is down... Here's a rehost: http://pil.pl/~mariuszj/rozne/plg-second-printing-update.pdf . But on a side note, isn't SDL supposed to be cross-platform?

Yes.

Animate Dreams - Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:00 pm
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Anyone have a good VMWare tutorial?

Maverick - Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:07 am
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You need a tutorial for that?

Animate Dreams - Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:30 pm
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Um... I don't know, do I? I kinda just assumed it was complex.

Solo Ace - Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:24 am
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Nah, it's too easy to be true. But it is true anyway.

If you can't figure out something, Google would be a better solution than simply a tutorial.

Animate Dreams - Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:11 pm
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Well, I generally like to have a step-by-step guide when going through something like that. And installing an OS inside of an OS sounds pretty major. But I've been juggling my time between MAME and Greek recently and haven't really gotten to trying this out.

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:50 pm
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Download VMware Server
Download Ubuntu 7.10 premade image
In VMware, select that image and hit Start.

You are now running Ubuntu inside of Windows, with all the needed tools already installed into the client operating system. Want steps for Windows?

In VMware Server, do New Virtual Machine
Select Windows from choices, pick disk size/memory you want allocated
Insert a Windows installation disk into your system (close any auto-run Windows). If you have any other CD/DVD drives, leave them empty.
In your new virtual machine, click start. Will auto-detect a CD/DVD drive to run. Follow normal Windows steps.

The VMware guys made it really easy to run. Give it a shot, it is free. If you run Subspace software, you can easily do VMware.

Cheese - Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:30 pm
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sticky this plz

Animate Dreams - Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:43 pm
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I just realized I have VMWare Player. I guess that's a completely different thing than VMWare Server.

LearJett+ - Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:05 am
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The Peloponnesian War -- Thucydides

Animate Dreams - Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:13 pm
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This is a great topic. Probably the best on the whole site. It shouldn't be so far down.

I came in here looking for an introduction to makefiles(I hope I'm not supposed to figure out how those work from just reading them), but I don't see anything. If anyone knows a good place to check out, let me know.

On a side note, the SDL tutorial linked in the OP is outdated. This( http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/index.php ) seems to be the most popular one, which I hope means it's a good one. You might want to update the OP a bit.

Samapico - Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:18 pm
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This should be pinned somewhere, really