Iona Software's Favorite Programming and Computer Links

Here are some links that we have found useful in our work.

Operating Systems
- Stepwise NeXTStep/OpenStep Server.
- Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
- NeXTStep heading at Yahoo.
- Mach heading at Yahoo.
- UNIX Guru Universe.
- UNIXhelp for users
- UNIX heading at Yahoo.
- GNU heading at Yahoo.
- MacOS 8
- MacOS heading at Yahoo.
- Mac vs Windows
- The Help Zone the Mac community gives advice to people with Mac problems.
- Rhapsody
- Rhapsody FAQ
- Rhapsody heading at Yahoo.
- BeOS a new operating system
- BeOS heading at Yahoo.
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows heading at Yahoo.
- DOS heading at Yahoo.
Programming
- Generic
  - The Story of Mel is great to put things in perspective if you're having a bad code day.
  - Tips for Free/Shareware Authors covers Win/Mac/UNIX.
  - The Copyright Website gives everyone some good advice.
- Languages
  - Review of existing Languages.
  - C - at Long Island University.
  - The Ten Commandments for C Programmers - at Long Island University.
  - Frequently Asked Questions - from comp.lang.c.
  - Infrequently Asked Questions - from comp.lang.c.
  - Ask the C++ Pro a free service of inquiry.com providing technical advice on Visual C++.
  - Ask the MFC Pro a free service of inquiry.com providing technical advice on Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC).
  - From The Ground Up: A Guide to C++.
  - Objective C FAQ.
  - Perl Home Page.
  - Java.
  - Ask the Java Pro a free service of inquiry.com providing technical advice on Java.
  - JavaScript World.
  - Ask the JavaScript Pro a free service of inquiry.com providing technical advice on JavaScript.
  - Fortran Market.
  - Fortran and Windows.
  - High Performance Fortran.
  - Fortran 90 Tutorial.
  - UNIX shell scripts.
  - Stupid Shell Tricks.
  - Pascal.
  - COBOL.
- Macintosh
  - Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
  - Metrowerks Hotlist of programming links.
  - Symantec.
  - Matt's Mac Development Page.
  - MacHack - The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers, June 17-21, 1998 in Dearborn, Michigan.
  - The Mac Resource Page.
  - The ULTIMATE Macintosh.
  - Mac Programming FAQ.
- Windows95/NT
- NeXTStep/OpenStep
  - NeXTanswers online technical support archive.
  - Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet.
Commercial Sofware
- Macintosh
  - Bare Bones Software - makers of BBEdit.
  - Uni Software Plus - makers of Voodoo.
- Windows95/NT
  - Nothing yet.
- NeXTStep/OpenStep
  - Wolfram Research - makers of Mathematica.
  - Omni Development.
  - Dancing Bear.
  - eduStep - scientific NeXTStep information.
Freeware/Shareware
- Tips for Free/Shareware Authors covers Win/Mac/UNIX.
- The Copyright Website gives everyone some good advice.
- Macintosh
  - Father of Shareware.
  - Share Ware archive.
  - Jumbo Archive.
  - Happy Puppy archive.
  - TUCOWS.
  - Hyper Archive at MIT.
  - The ULTIMATE Macintosh.
  - Bare Bones Software - makers of BBEdit Lite, a great free text editor.
  - Ambrosia makers of shareware games and utilities.
  - The Well Connected Mac archive.
  - University of Texas Mac Archive
- Windows95/NT
  - Father of Shareware.
  - Happy Puppy.
  - TUCOWS.
  - Jumbo Archive.
- NeXTStep/OpenStep
  - Peanuts Archive.
  - eduStep - scientific NeXTStep information.
  - Omni Development.
Computer Manufacturers
Computer Magazines
- MacTech Magazine - for Macintosh programmers and developers.
- MacUser - breaking news, product reviews, downloads, links to hot Mac web sites.
- Inside Mac Games.
- Macophile.
- Win95 Magazine.
- CNet - news and features about computers and the internet.
- Performance Computing - news and features about UNIX (formerly UNIX Review).
- Stepwise - news and features about NeXTStep/OpenStep, Rhapsody.
Computer Books
- "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline - good introductory book for C, source code available for download.
- "Practical C++ Programming" by Steve Oualline - good introductory book for C++, similar examples to the C book, source code available for download.
- "Scientific C++" by Guido Buzzi-Ferraris - good introduction to C++ for Fortran programmers.
- "Writing Solid Code" by Steve Maguire (reviewed by Brian Harrison) - how to write bug free code.
- "Debugging the Development Process" by Steve Maguire - how to write bug free code.
- "Programming Starter Kit for Macintosh" by Jim Trudeau - introductory book for MacOS application programming, you need to know C already, includes Metrowerks CodeWarrior and all source code on CD-ROM.
- "Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus" by Jamie McCornack, et al. - introduction to MacOS game programming, includes Metrowerks CodeWarrior Lite and all source code on CD-ROM.
- "Programming Windows 95" by Charles Petzold & Paul Yao - in C, source code on CD-ROM.
- "Death March: The Complete Software Developers Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projects" by Edward Yourdon - exactly what the title says.
- "Programming perl" by Larry Wall & Randall Schwartz - "THE" perl reference (not CGI) for version 4.0.
- "Programming perl, 2nd Edition" by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Randall Schwartz - "THE" perl reference (not CGI) for version 5.0.
- "Intermediate Problem Solving and Data Structures: Walls and Mirrors" by Paul Helman & Robert Veroff - good book on data abstraction and management.
- "Numerical Recipes" by William H. Press, et al. - good book on data analysis, source code (C/Fortran/Pascal) available separately on floppy disks.
- "UNIX Power Tools" by Jerry Peek, et al. - a "must read" for any UNIX user, a "must have" for any UNIX sysadmin, includes many tools and source code on CD-ROM.
- "HTML: The Definitive Guide" by Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy - covers all the basics.
- "CGI Programming on the World Wide Web" by Shishir Gundavaram - covers all the basics.
- "Mathematica" by Stephen Wolfram - good overview of basics.
- "NeXTStep Programming" by Simson L. Garfinkle & Michael K. Mahoney - introduction to building NeXTStep applications, includes floppy with source code.
Organizations
- Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- GNU - which stands for "Gnu's Not Unix."
- The Perl Institute.
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
- Arizona Macintosh Users Group (AMUG).

This page last updated: Tue Mar 31 1998 11:32 EST

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