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If you want things done right, you have to do them yourself. I've always had problems with every program I've ever used. Some of these problems are a matter of the difference in taste or philosophy which I have. Other problems are quite fundamental.

In my opinion it's pretty straightforward to please me, but most programmers simply do not think like I do. Well.. I'm going to endeavour to learn to program so I can write the apps I require. There's just too much crap. Way too much.

See also:

• Development
• Hackers
• Languages

• Software

bubblesort?

experienced programmers

debugging a new language

• Agile software development
• Collaborative programming is essential for education.

• Hackers > How To Become A Hacker

Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.

-- Bill Gates, An Open Letter To Hobbyists

Programming topics ∞

• /tag/programming-topics

• /tag/programming

  • Languages: Programming languages
• Zaurus SL-C1000 > Zaurus programming
• Batch file programming

• /tag/shell-scripting-languages

  • shell-random
  • Shell scripting notes

• Many Linux tools are programming-like.

Programming writing ∞

• /tag/programming+writing

  • Practicing Programming, by Steve Yegge has an excellent point of view which can be applied immediately.
• Programming reading list
• The Art of Unix Programming, by esr
• The Scott Adams Meltdown: Anatomy of a Disaster

• The Silver Bullet: Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It

  • http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/objections.htm
  • This guy seems to be a Christian Crackpot. =/
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

• Code Kata

  • Now at http://codekata.com/
• Engineers, artists, and coding style

Programming software ∞

• /tag/programming+software

• Comparison of integrated development environments

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• Widestudio

  • It can target the Sharp Zaurus SL-series and it works with all kinds of languages like Ruby.
• Valgrind for checking memory leaks.
• https://blog.cleancoder.com/ ^[ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20130331231657/http://cleancoder.posterous.com/

• https://ideone.com/

  • Online Compiler and IDE >> C/C++, Java, PHP, Python, Perl and 70+ other compilers and interpreters
  • Compile various programming languages online. Add input stream, save output, add notes and tags.

• Alice

  • An innovative block-based programming environment

• qb.js

  • An implementation of QBASIC in Javascript

• Rough Auditing Tool for Security (RATS)

  • An open source tool developed and maintained by Secure Software security engineers. Secure Software was acquired by Fortify Software, Inc. RATS is a tool for scanning C, C++, Perl, PHP and Python source code and flagging common security related programming errors such as buffer overflows and TOCTOU (Time Of Check, Time Of Use) race conditions.

• Flawfinder

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20040603232353/http://www.gnu.org:80/directory/all/flawfinder.html
  • Looks through source code for potential security flaws in source code by using a built-in database of C/C++ functions with well-known problems, and providing a list of potential security flaws, sorted by risk, with the most potentially dangerous flaws shown first. Risk level depends on both the function and the values of the parameters of the function. It ignores text inside comments and strings.

• http://splint.org/

Advice ∞

• See also Hackers
• Probably /tag/writing+programming
• Working on Free Software

• Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012

  • by Thomas Figg

• How to Write Clean, Testable Code

  • by GoogleTechTalks

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  • Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman

Languages to check out ∞

• Cobra

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20201109071436/http://cobra-language.com/

• Assembly language (asm)

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20091026201511/http://www.xs4all.nl/~smit/asm01001.htm
  • Specifically NASM
    -- https://www.nasm.us/
    -- https://sourceforge.net/projects/nasm
  • YASM is a fork of NASM

• Rexx

  • NetRexx

Resources ∞

• Object-oriented programming

• Model-driven architecture (MDA)

  • https://www.omg.org/mda/
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML)

• In defence of Not-Invented-Here syndrome

  • See Not invented here
• The Game Programming Wiki

Unsorted links ∞

• https://reproducible-builds.org/

  • Deterministic stuff
• https://www.codecademy.com/
• Kano (computer)
• What are algorithms?

• Don't Store That in a Float

  • On the dangerous of floating point precision issues.
• 2016 Best Coding Resources
• Software Developer Meme Dump
• https://gitter.im/ is a community thing.
• http://underhanded-c.org/ ^[ 2 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20150529160754/http://underhanded.xcott.com:80/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20040202061724/http://visopsys.org:80/osdev/index.html -- OS development links.