Programming techniques

It normally doesn't matter what language you use to solve a problem (although some languages are better than others for dealing with specific types of problems). This section deals with approaches to problem-solving that are essentially language-independent.

Object-oriented design:

	Object-Oriented Analysis and Design An introductory course.    ¤  1997. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.firstnet.co.uk/meniscus/oocnotes.htm (now gone)
	The UML 1.3 Specification The full specification of the OMG's Unified Modelling Language. This is a PDF file, so you may need to install a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat or Ghostview before you can read it.    ¤  Jun 1999. Freely redistributable. Home site: http://www.omg.org/
	Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology An introduction by Brad Appleton.    ¤  Feb 2000. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/
	A Design Patterns Tutorial A brief tutorial on patterns.    ¤  1996. Free for non-profit use. Home site: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dbutler/tutorials/winter96/patterns/
	Rational Rose/C++ 4.0 student edition A restricted version of Rational's commercial object-oriented analysis and design tool for C++ (with restrictions such as a maximum of 30 classes). Booch, OMT and UML methodologies are supported, and there are tutorials on each included in the package.    ¤  Jun 1997. Freeware. Home site: http://www.rational.com/
	Dome A general purpose Windows CASE toolkit from Honeywell which lets you build models for specific design notations and design systems using those notations. Some pre-built notations are included (Coad-Yourdon, Petri nets, a simplified form of UML, and several others).    ¤  Feb 2000. Free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Home site: http://www.htc.honeywell.com/dome/
	Libero A tool which lets you design programs visually using state diagrams and then generates code in C, C++, Java, PHP, assembler, or a range of other languages.    ¤  May 1999. Freeware. Home site: http://www.imatix.com/
	Object Domain A Windows CASE tool for Booch-style object oriented analysis and design.    ¤  Aug 1995. Shareware. Home site: http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/win3/pgmtools.html (now gone)
	UML Studio A UML design tool which can generate code in Ada, C++, Java or IDL. This is a restricted version which can only be used for small projects. You will need to register is you want to use it for large projects.    ¤  Oct 2000. Shareware. Home site: http://www.pragsoft.com/

Artificial intelligence:

What is Artificial Intelligence? A layman's introduction by John McCarthy, the original creator of Lisp.    ¤  Apr 2000. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/whatisai.html

Compiler construction:

	Compilers and Compiler Generators A complete online copy of Pat Terry's textbook on compiler writing, originally published by Thomson in 1997 but now out of print.    ¤  17 Jan 1996. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.scifac.ru.ac.za/compilers/
	Introduction to Programming Langauges A comparative study of programming languages, their development and the development of the programming paradigms that they embody.    ¤  3 Aug 2001. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://cs.wwc.edu/~aabyan/221_2/PLBOOK/
	Coco/R An LL(1) compiler generator which generates parsers and scanners in Java. Includes full source code.    ¤  Jul 2001. Freeware. Home site: http://cs.ru.ac.za/homes/cspt/cocor.htm
	Coco/R An LL(1) compiler generator which generates parsers and scanners in Modula-2. Includes full source code.    ¤  Jun 2001. Freeware. Home site: http://cs.ru.ac.za/homes/cspt/cocor.htm
	Coco/R An LL(1) compiler generator which generates parsers and scanners in Pascal. Includes full source code.    ¤  Jun 2001. Freeware. Home site: http://cs.ru.ac.za/homes/cspt/cocor.htm
	Coco/R An LL(1) compiler generator which generates parsers and scanners in C or C++. Includes full source code.    ¤  Jun 2001. Freeware. Home site: http://cs.ru.ac.za/homes/cspt/cocor.htm
	Bison An parser generator tool which generates LALR(1) parsers in C.    ¤  Mar 1997. Free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Home site: http://www.delorie.com/
	The comp.compilers newsgroup A newsgroup devoted to compilers and their workings.

Database programming:

	A Gentle Introduction to SQL An introductory tutorial on SQL, the standard database query language used by most modern database systems.    ¤  Feb 2000. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~andrew/gisq/
	MySQL 3.23 A free database system implementing SQL, the standard database query language. It consists of a server and a number of client applications which can communicate with it (possibly from a remote machine).    ¤  May 2001. Free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Home site: http://www.mysql.com/

Network programming:

	A Perl CGI Tutorial A nice introduction to using Perl for CGI scripting by Nik Silver.    ¤  15 Jun 1995. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/Cgi/start.html (now gone)
	The CGI Open FAQ    ¤  15 Jun 2000. Freely redistributable. Home site: http://www.boutell.com/
	The CGI Programming FAQ    ¤  29 May 1998. Freely redistributable. Home site: http://www.htmlhelp.com/
	Windows Sockets: A Quick and Dirty Primer A guide to writing Winsock-based Internet applications for Windows.    ¤  31 Dec 1999. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://world.std.com/~jimf/papers/sockets/winsock.html
	The Winsock Specification The specification for the implementation of Berkeley sockets used to provide Internet connectivity on Windows systems.    ¤  20 Jan 1993. Freely redistributable. Home site: ftp://ftp.qdeck.com/pub/general/winsock.doc (MS Word document; HTML markup by John English)
	JacORB 1.3.30 A Corba 2.0 object request broker for Windows implemented in Java. Source code is also included.    ¤  Jun 2001. Reproduced under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Home site: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~brose/jacorb/
	Mico 2.3.3 A Corba 2.0 object request broker for Windows (C++ source code only; you'll have to compile this yourself).    ¤  Jan 2001. Reproduced under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Home site: http://www.mico.org/
	OmniORB 3.0.4 Another Corba 2.0 object request broker for Windows, with C++ source code.    ¤  Sep 1999. Freeware. Home site: http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/omniORB.html
	CorbaScript 1.3.3 A scripting tool that lets you interact dynamically with a Corba server. Great for testing and debugging Corba systems. C++ source code is included.    ¤  May 2000. Freeware. Home site: http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/