What Is Programming? - A Course For Technical Communicators

Links to Web Sites of  Some Interest to This Course

If any of these are out of date and go nowhere, please let me know.     rchrd@rchrd.com

• Resources: Glossaries, Dictionaries, etc.
• WhatIs?:   http://whatis.techtarget.com/
•  New Hacker's Dictionary (aka the Jargon File): http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html
•  FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing):  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html

 
• General Information About Computers
•  The WWW Virtual Library: Computing  A very good staring point

 
• Information about programming and programming languages
• The Language List:   http://cuiwww.unige.ch/langlist
• Yahoo's directory on programming languages: http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_Languages/
• 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall: http://www.ionet.net/~timtroyr/funhouse/beer.html
• Teaching About Programming Languages:  http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/teaching-prog-lang/home.html
• Everything you need to know about Fortran: http://www.fortran.com/
• And some more about Fortran 95/2000:  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cc/fortran/f90home.html
• Information about Cobol: http://www.cobolU.com/
• A Good Intro to Assembly Language Programming: http://www.cit.ac.nz/smac/asm/asm_1.htm
• Tutorials and books on programming languages: http://www.itknowledge.com/
• More Tutorials on Programming: http://www.cit.ac.nz/smac/cscourse.htm
• A good tutorial on UNIX: http://www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/workshop/unixindex.html
• The C++ homepage of the man who invented C++ has many interesting links: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/C++.html
• A vast collection of information on Java, including demos of games written in Java that you can download is at: http://www.gamelan.com/
• Getting started on Java technology, from the source: http://java.sun.com/starter.html
• The Java 2 Platform . This web site demonstrates an interesting way of displaying API information: http://java.sun.com/products/
• Java documentation: http://java.sun.com/docs/index.html
• The Association of C and C++ (and now Java) Users has lots of information for programmers, including book reviews: http://www.accu.org/
• Resources and tutorials on java, javascript, cgi tools, etc. for web developers: http://www.echoecho.com/

• Online documentation from hardware/software vendors
• COMPAQ/Digital Fortran:  http://www6.compaq.com/fortran/docs/index.html
• Hewlett-Packard Technical Documentation:  http://docs.hp.com:80/hpux/development/
• SGI TechPubs Software Developer's Library:  http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/listdocs.cgi?coll=0650&db=bks
• Sun Microsystems docs.sun.com Programmer's Library:  http://docs.sun.com/ab2/products_C/INDEX/@ProductViewer/10131/*;td=1?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1
• Sun's Java website: http://java.sun.com
• IBM Redbooks:  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com This will require you to register, but its ok.
  
• Intel's Software Developer's Literature Center:  http://developer.intel.com/design/litcentr/index.htm
• Microsoft's Online Library:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/
• Supercomputer Documentation from Cray, Inc.: http://www.cray.com/swpubs/mastertitles.html

• Links to science and engineering computer applications
• National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
• Home page: http://www.nersc.gov/contents.html
• Grand Challenge Applications:  http://www.nersc.gov/research/GC/gcnersc.html
• Climate Modeling:  http://www.nersc.gov/research/climate.html
• The TOP 500 SuperComputing Sites Around the World:  http://www.top500.org/top500.list.html
• NASA Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility:  http://science.nas.nasa.gov/home.html
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications:  http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
• NOAA Computing Site:  http://www.hpcc.noaa.gov/
• Computer Science Education Project: http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/csep.html
• Terascale Computing Research at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center: http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/tcs/

• History of computing
• The Computer Museum History Center at Moffett Field (Mountain View) CA: http://www.computerhistory.org/
• The Computer Museum (Boston):  http://www.net.org/
• The Computer History Assoc of California:  http://www.chac.org/chac/
• The Virtual Museum of Computing:  http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html
• The Virginia Tech History of Computing Page:  http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/
• The University of Virginia Computer Museum:  http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/museum.html
• The Charles Babbage Institute: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/
• Vintage Mechanical Calculators: http://www.dotpoint.com/xnumber/frame_malbum.htm
• The Friden Calculator page: http://www.geocities.com/oldcalculators/fridenstw.html
• More early calculating machines and slide rules: http://www.hpmuseum.org/prehp.htm   
• The History of the Macintosh: http://library.stanford.edu/mac/index.html    
  Includes a discussion of how the Mac documentation was put together.
• The Software History Website: http://www.softwarehistory.org/   
  

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