programming notes

Before Getting Started...

• Programmer's Survival Guide for Windows
• Programmer's Survival Guide for Mac & Ubuntu

How to Install & Get Started...

• JDK 7
• Environment Variables (PATH, CLASSPATH, JAVA_HOME)
• Eclipse 4.2 (Juno) for Java
• NetBeans 7.0 for Java
• Eclipse 4.2 (Juno) for C/C++
• CodeBlocks 12 for C/C++
• Tomcat 7
• More Tomcat 7
• Tomcat 6 [For EE3072]
• Apache 2.2 - How to Install
• Apache 2.2 - How to Configure
• Apache 2 with Tomcat 6
• MySQL 5.6
• Git

Windows

• Programmer's Survival Guide for Windows
• Windows Basics
• Cygwin & MinGW
• Visual C++ 2010/2008 Express
• WampServer 2.2

Unix, Linux, Ubuntu & Mac OS X

• Programmer's Survival Guide for Mac & Ubuntu
• Unix Basics
• Mac OS X (JDK, MySQL, Tomcat....)
• Ubuntu (JDK, MySQL, Tomcat....)

Error Messages

• Common Error Messages (JDK, MySQL, Tomcat....)

Android

• Android - How to install & Get Started
• Android - Basics and User Interfaces
• Android - Custom 2D Graphics
• Android - 3D Graphics in OpenGL ES
• Android - Native Development Kit (NDK)

Software Notes

• Recommended Shareware/Freeware
• Windows, Office, Firefox, Dreamweaver & Others

ICPC

• Getting Started
• Tips, Trick & Tweaks
• PC^2 (U/C)

Java Programming - Part I

For First-Time Programmers

• 1. Introduction to Java Programming

For New Comers to Java & OOP

• 2. Java Basics
• Exercises: Java Basics
• 3a. OOP Basics
• 3b. OOP Inheritance & Polymorphism
• 3c. OOP Wrapping-Up
• Exercises: OOP
• 4a. String is Special
• 4b. Enumeration (enum)
• 4c. Exception Handling & Assertion
• 4d. Java Reference

Power Users

• Data Representation - Integers, Floating-Point Numbers & Character Sets
• Regular Expression (Regexe)

Java Programming - Part II

Intermediate Java

• 5a. Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• 5b. Graphical User Interface (GUI) Part II
• 5c. Custom Graphics
• Exercises: Graphics Programming
• Case Study: Graphics Programming - Tic-tac-toe
• Case Study: Graphics Programming Part II - AI
• 5d. Applet & WebStart Application
• 5e. Swing - Templates, Misc & How-To
• 6a. Multithreading
• 6b. Basic Input & Output (I/O)
• 6c. Advanced I/O
• 6d. Networking
• 7a. The Collection Framework
• 7b. Generics
• 7c. Annotation

Special Topics in Java

• Unit Testing with JUnit
• Calendar, Date and Time
• XML and Java
• Regular Expression (Regexe) and Java
• JavaBeans
• Java Logging Framework
• Java Native Interface (JNI)

Java Appendices

• Java Documentation
• Packages and CLASSPATH
• Java Archive (JAR)
• Java Miscellaneous How-To
• JDK 1.6's New Features [TODO]
• JDK 1.7's New Features

Java ME

• 1. Java ME: Getting Started, Basics & Game Programming

Java Game Programming

• 1. Introduction: The World of Bouncing Balls
• 2. 2D Graphics, Java 2D and Images
• 3. Playing Sound
• 4. Java Game Framework

Client-Side Programming

• HTML/CSS Basics
• HTML/CSS Tips
• HTML/CSS Intermediate
• JavaScript 1: Basics
• JavaScript 2: Examples
• Ajax
• HTML 5

Web Protocols

• HTTP 1: Basics
• HTTP 2: State Management
• HTTP 3: Authentication
• HTTP 4: SSL

MySQL & Database Programming

• 1. How to Install MySQL and Get Started
• 2. Introduction to Java Database Programming (JDBC)
• 3. MySQL By Examples for Beginners
• 4. Relational Database Design
• 5. MySQL Intermediate
• 6. MySQL Sample Databases
• 7. JDBC Intermediate

Server-side Programming

Java-Based

• 0. How to Install Tomcat and Get Started
• 1. Java Servlets Case Study
• 2. Java Servlets
• 3. Tomcat's Java Servlet Examples Explained
• 4. More on Tomcat
• 5. Java Servlets Case Study Continue
• 6. Getting Started with JSP by Examples
• 7. JavaServer Pages (JSP)
• 8. JavaServer Faces (JSF)
• 9. Java Web Database Applications
• 10. Struts
• 11. Java Web Services

Others

• PHP 1: Basics
• Perl 1: Basics
• Perl 2: Regular Expressions
• Python [TODO]

3D Graphics & OpenGL

Setup on Various Platforms

• OpenGL in C/C++
• JOGL 2.0  |  JOGL 1.1
• LWJGL 2.8
• Java 3D

Computer Graphics with OpenGL

• CG 1. Introduction to OpenGL
• CG 2. Computer Graphics - Basic Theory
• CG 3. OpenGL Examples
• CG 3. Computer Graphics - Curves & Surfaces [TODO]
• CG 4. OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) [TODO]
• References & Resources

OpenGL|ES

• 3D Graphics in OpenGL ES (for Android)

Physics Engine

• Bullet Physics & JBullet Physics Engine

C/C++ Programming

C++ Programming Language

• 0. C++ Introduction
• 1. C++ Basics
• 2. C++ More Basics
• 3. C++ OOP Basics
• 4. C++ Pointers, References & Dynamic Allocation
• 5. C++ OOP Examples
• 6. C++ OOP Inheritance & Polymorphism
• 7. C++ Operator Overloading
• 8. C++ Template & Generic Programming
• 9. C++ Strings
• 10. C++ Libraries & STL
• 11. C++ IO Streams & File IO
• 12. C++ Misc, Tips & Traps
• 13. Data Structure and Algorithm in C++

C Programming Language

• 0. C Introduction

C/C++ Compilers and IDEs

• GCC and Make
• CodeBlocks 10 for C/C++
• Eclipse 3.7 for C/C++
• Visual C++ 2010/2008