Programming Documentation

Recommended Programming Books & Free Online Programming Tutorials


Programming Documentation

If you are looking for free online programming tutorials, references and documentation, or simply looking for a recommendation on a good book for a particular programming task (eg programming sockets, programming Windows, programming Unix, writing C/C++ code, etc), check out some of the pages listed here.

For those new to this site - the listed online documentation are free (or at least they were when I checked them out; let me know if they are no longer free). The recommended books are of course not free. You can get them from any bookstore, either a brick and mortar one (like your local bookstore) or an online one like Amazon.com.

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8 March 2010
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22 February 2010
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15 February 2010
  • Photoshop Express from Adobe has been added to the Free Online Photo Editors page. This is a rudimentary photo editing software that you can access from any computer using only a web browser. It allows you to do simple touch-ups of your photos (cropping, resizing, red-eye removal, sharpening, etc) as well as store your photos online.
13 February 2010
  • New page: How to Create a Bulleted List (Unordered List) for Your Website in Dreamweaver. This article deals with how you can create one of those lists with bullet points preceding each item using the Dreamweaver web editor. It's very handy if you want to list things but don't want to use numbers since that would suggest some sort of sequence or order to the items. (And yes, I use this type of list a lot on thesitewizard.com.)
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28 January 2010
  • A new web server has been added to the Free/Open Source Web (HTTP) Server Software page. Tornado is a scalable non-blocking web server designed for real-time web services. It is able to handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections. It is the open source version of the server developed for FriendFeed.
27 January 2010
  • New page: Free Font Manager Software. Looking for a program to manage your collection of fonts? These free font managers let you organize your fonts into categories, install and uninstall fonts, load them on-the-fly into your system so that you can use them with a particular program without permanently dumping them into your system font folder (thus potentially slowing your system down), see sample text of fonts (even if they're not installed), check out the font licensing, font metrics and other font information stored in a font, etc.
25 January 2010
  • A new CAPTCHA script has been added to the Free PHP CAPTCHA Scripts page. The script allows you to add a test to your contact forms to make sure that the person submitting the form is a human and not a spam program.
     
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  • Microsoft's research operating system, Singularity, complete with source code, build tools and documentation, is now listed on the Free Alternative Operating Systems page. If you're thinking of creating your own OS, check this out to see how it implements advances in software engineering to make a more reliable system.
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  • Thinking of creating your own fonts that will have the exact design you're looking for? Check out the newest addition to the Free Font Editors and Font Creation Software page. This one, Type Light, handles both OpenType TrueType fonts (.ttf) and OpenType PostScript fonts (.otf). And there are a number of other free font editors listed on that page too, if you prefer something else.
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  • A new shopping cart software has been added to the Free And Open Source PHP Shopping Carts page. Besides the usual features that most shopping carts have, this program (OpenCart), supports product reviews and ratings, the display of related products, downloadable products (for those who are selling ebooks and software), multiple currencies, multiple tax rates, shipping weight calculation, unlimited categories, and so on. If you're thinking of selling anything from your website, check it out.
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