On-line resources

ECE 417/617: Other Resources

Software development tools (open source)
- Concurrent Versions System (CVS) -- version control [Cederqvist manual, redbean manual, suggested best practices]
- GUI for CVS: WinCvs/MacCvs/gCvs (for Windows, Mac, and Linux) -- jCVS (Java-based UI)
- Bugzilla -- bug tracking system
- automatic documentation: Doxygen -- ccdoc
- integrated development environment (IDE): DevC++ -- Anjuta IDE -- KDevelop -- Eclipse
- GUI toolkit: Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) -- GTK+ and Glade -- gtkmm -- Qt (free for Linux)
- GUI toolkit comparison -- compares GTK+ and gtkmm, Qt, FLTK, wxWindows, and FOX Toolkit
Tutorials
Open-source projects and info
- SourceForget.net -- open source software development
- GNU and Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- FSF free software directory
- Savannah -- GNU development, distribution, and maintenance
- GNU Coding standards
- GNU help wanted task list
- GNOME -- GNU desktop environment
- GNOME human interfaces guidelines
- Octave -- open source numerical software
- ArgoUML -- open source UML tool (written in Java)
- GCC -- GNU compiler collection (C, C++, Java, ...)
- GNU / Linux / open source history
- list of open source resorces
- freshmeat -- large index of open-source software
Videos
- Watts Humphrey, "Competing in the Software Age" [QuickTime]
- Bad day [MPEG]
- Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death clip [QuickTime]
Related courses
- Bruegge and Dutoit's companion web site, including slides and doc templates from course at CMU
- Michael J. Black's CS032: Intro to Software Engineering at Brown
- Gumuskaya's CENG 302 Software Engineering at Fatih University
- Sitaraman's CP SC 872: Software Specification and Design at Clemson
- McGregor's CpSc 875: SW Architecture at Clemson
- Malloy's CpSc 372: Intro to Software Development at Clemson
- Malloy's Formal Methods at Clemson
- Farchi's SW Engr course at Haifa
- Leue's ECE455: SW Engr in Germany
- Hsiung's Software Engineering in Taiwan
- Ian Sommerville's Software Engineering slides
Related books
- Joel Spolsky, User interface design for programmers (abridged)
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1995.
- E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, J. Vlissides, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
- Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, McGraw Hill, 2005.
- Martin Fowler, UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Addison-Wesley, 2003.
- Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering
- Lethbridge and Langaniere, Object-Oriented Software Engineering
C++ libraries and resources
- Stroustrup's C++ web page
- Bruce Eckel, Thinking in C++ (free online book)
- Visualization Toolkit (VTK)
- Object-oriented numerics (many, but not all, of these resources are in C++)
- Blitz++ -- fast vector/matrix library with expression templates
- C++ libraries
- Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU)
Other links
- article on the stand alone programmer
- Jakob Nielson's Ten Usability Heuristics -- Anti-Mac interface -- Motif style guide -- Talin's UI principles
- source code line counting programs
- SW Engr failures
- SW Engineering crisis quiz
- OMG's UML page
- Official UML spec (version 1.5)
- Stevens' Using UML page
- Software Engineering Fact Guru
- Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute: Federally funded research center promoting improvements to S/W engineering practices
- Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)
- Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Conference: The primary conference for S/W engineering
- Software Engineering Information Repository Forum for the contribution and exchange of information concerning software engineering improvement activities; practitioners can exchange questions, tips, experiences, or examples regarding the implementation of S/W engineering methods
- Team Software Process (TSP)
- Personal Software Process (PSP)
- Extreme Programming
- XProgramming.com
- SlashDot
- Archives of the USENET news group comp.software-eng