General References

This page will serve as a list of general references on a number of programming topics. If you know of a good programming resource that is not listed on this page, please email the URL to us.

[Note: The sites we list below are English-language Web sites.]

C/C++
C#
Internet & World Wide Web
JavaT
.NET
Object-Oriented Programming and Design
Perl
Python
Visual Basic
Web Services
Wireless
XML
Miscellaneous

C/C++

www.cuj.com C++ Users Journal Online
msdn.microsoft.com/visualc Microsoft Visual C++ Web site (Includes Visual C++ .NET)
www.accu.org Association of C & C++ Users Web site
www.cplusplus.com C++ Resources Network
www.devx.com/cplus DevX C++ zone

C#

msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/techinfo/articles/upgrade/Csharpintro.asp Microsoft introduction and overview of the C# Programming language
www.mastercsharp.com Master C# The Easy Way...
www.csharphelp.com C#Help- The Place for C# Developers
www.c-sharpcorner.com C# Corner, an overall resource for C# development
www.csharp-station.com C# Station-Tutorials, Links, and Other Information for C#
www.codehound.com/csharp C# Developers Search Engine
www.developersdex.com/csharp Developers Index of C# Resources

JavaT

java.sun.com Sun Microsystem's Java Home Page
java.sun.com/j2me Sun Web site for J2ME (JavaT 2 Micro Edition)
softwaredev.earthweb.com/java Gamelan
www.JARS.com
www.JGuru.com Java Guru Web Site
www.codehound.com/java Java Developers Search Engine
www.javaworld.com JavaWorld online magazine
www.devx.com/java DevX Java zone

Internet & World Wide Web

www.w3c.org World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web site
www.w3schools.com/w3c/w3c_xhtml.asp XHTML resource at the W3C web site
www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/sgml/entities.html HTML character entity references
msdn.microsoft.com/library Microsoft Developer Network Web Library
www.webmonkey.com Resource for everything "Webbie"
www.codehound.com/js JavaScript Developers search engine
www.devx.com/webdev DevX Web development zone

.NET

www.microsoft.com/net Microsoft .NET home
msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio Microsoft Developer Network Visual Studio .NET Home Page
www.gotdotnet.com .NET framework community Web site
msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic Microsoft Visual Basic .NET home
www.asp.net Microsoft ASP .NET home
www.devx.com/vsm Home page for Visual Studio Magazine
www.devx.com/dotnet DevX .NET zone

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

www.omg.org Object Management Group [responsible for object standards such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)]

Perl

www.perl.org Perl Mongers Web site
use.perl.org Use Perl Web
perl.apache.org Perl integration with Apache Server Web site
www.codehound.com/perl Perl Developers search engine
www.perlarchive.com Perl Archive Web site

Python

www.python.org Python Web site
www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Python Developer's Shed Python site

Visual Basic

msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic Microsoft Visual Basic .NET home
vbwire.com VBWire, Visual Basic News and Information Source
www.vb-world.net Visual Basic World Web site
www.codehound.com/vb Visual Basic Developers search engine
www.devx.com/vsm Home page for Visual Studio Magazine
www.developersdex.com/vb Developers Index of Visual Basic resources
www.devx.com/vb DevX Visual Basic zone

Web Services

www.webservices.org Resource for Web Services Information
www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices IBM Web Services zone
www.w3.org/2002/ws W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Architecture Domain: Web Services Activity

Wireless

java.sun.com/j2me Sun Web site for J2ME (JavaT 2 Micro Edition)
www.jguru.com/faq/J2ME JGuru FAQ for J2ME
www.wapforum.org WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) Forum Web site
www.thefeature.com Resource for Wireless Internet application development
www.pocketpcdn.com Pocket PC Developer Network
www.devx.com/wireless DevX Wireless zone

XML

www.w3.org/XML W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Web site for XML
www.xml.org The XML Industry Portal
www.sun.com/software/xml The Sun XML Web site
www.waterlang.org Water home page [Water is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that uses an XML syntax for describing data, for presentation and for code.]
www.developersdex.com/xml Developers Index of XML resources
www.codehound.com/xml XML Developers search engine
www.devx.com/xml DevX XML zone

Miscellaneous

www.unicode.org Unicode Character Set
www.devx.com DevX Web site. Resource for many programming languages and topics
www.codehound.com Codehound- The Software Developer's search engine
www.flashkit.com Resource for Macromedia Flash
www,codehound.com