Resources

Quotes

Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.
- Bruce Schneier

• Bumper-sticker Computer Science
• Perlis Epigrams
• Rich Pattis' quote collection

Software

• Course supported software for download
  • Development Environment: Eclipse
• Duke University Software Library

System and Programming Tool Documentation

• tar
Information on using tar, required for submitting in CPS 108
• Makefiles
A guide to Makefiles written by UTA Garrett Mitchener.
A sample makefile
• CVS (concurrent versions system), required for all group projects in CPS 108
  • Information on using CVS only on acpub machines
  • Information on using CVS on multiple platforms
• HTML tutorial
• GNU tex info pages.
  These are documents for a number of tools, libraries, and utilities found on most Unix systems.
• Common Unix commands.
• Shell scripting tutorials
  • for CShell (i.e., acpub)
  • for bash (i.e., linux/cygwin)

C++ Tools and Documentation

• C++ FAQ
• C++ Annotations
• C++ howtos (from Professor Astrachan)
• C++ design hints (from former UTAs)
• The Official STL reference site (a complete description of everything, but not intended as a tutorial).
• g++ library and g++ iostream library
• Libraries
Information on creating shared and static libraries with Unix/Solaris.
• regex
Regular expressions callable/usable from C/C++ programs. (See also the BSD section of the tex info regex documentation. The non-BSD functions may not work on Solaris.)
• gprof
Execution profiling for C++ using the gprof tool
• gdb
Source level debugging for C++ programs
• GetOpt help page -- package for parsing command line options.
• GNU C Library reference.
  This has lots of good stuff, but keep in mind that some of it may not work with the Solaris C Library. When in doubt, write a short test program and see. Among the more interesting sub-topics are:
  • Command line arguments and using getopt() (Note: These pages include some examples with switch statements. In object-oriented programming, you should use an alternative, perhaps a map of command objects...)
  • Math functions
  • File system stuff (including stat(), mkdir(), file permissions (attributes), etc.)
• Tools for automatically generating HTML documentation based on your comments in your header files
  • ccdoc (simple to use, but not pretty)
  • doxygen (more flexible but harder to start using)

Java Tools and Documentation

• An online tutorial is available from Sun
• Java API (java classes) and other documentation from Sun
• Java FAQ
• Source code for Java 1.3
• Java for C++ programmers
  • Java vs. C++ reprinted from C++ Report, January 1997
  • Comparing C++ and Java by Bruce Eckel
  • Java for C++ programmers by Peter Baeumle-Courth
  • Java Tutorial for C++ programmers class notes by Prof.  Marvin Solomon at University of Wisconsin

Specific to Duke

• OIT Help Desk (684-2200)
• OIT On-Line Help Page
• General help with acpub.
• Introduction to the Public Unix Clusters at Duke
  Note, this manual is also available at the Gothic bookstore

Academic

• Peer Tutoring Program
• Academic Resource Center
• Pre-Major Advising Center