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Contents 1 Programming Languages @ LSU 2 Popular Scripting Languages 3 Lists of Languages 4 Program Chrestomathy 5 Resources 5.1 Blogs 5.2 Books 6 Related Topics 6.1 Text Editors 6.2 Programming Challenges and Competitions

Programming Languages @ LSU

These are the languages you will definitely use during your stay at LSU:

• C
  • Wikipedia
  • C Wikibook
  • List of compilers

• C++
  • Wikipedia
  • CPP Wikibook
  • List of compilers

• Java
  • Wikipedia
  • Java Wikibook
  • Java Compilers

Popular Scripting Languages

• Perl
• Python
• Ruby

Lists of Languages

• By Category
• Alphabetically
• Chronologically
• By Generation
• Esoterica Languages
• By Paradigm (chart)

Program Chrestomathy

In computer programming, a program chrestomathy is a collection of similar programs written in various programming languages, for the purpose of demonstrating differences in syntax, semantics and idioms for each language. [1]

• Rosetta Code Project
• Hello World (Latech.edu)
• Computer Language Shootout, focused on performance
• 99 bottles of beer, in over a thousand languages
• ROT13 in a wide variety of languages

Resources

Blogs

• Lambda the Ultimate Website RSS

Books

• The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (a.k.a. SICP) (a.k.a. the purple book). Abelson and Sussman. Website Full text in HTML
• Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. Van Roy and Haridi. Website

Related Topics

Text Editors

This is potentially the most important tool you have: choose one and learn it.

If you are serious about a career that involves programming:

• Vim [2] (*nix, Mac, Windows)
• Emacs [3] (*nix, Mac, Windows)
• Some IDE:
  • Eclipse (*nix, Mac, Windows)
  • NetBeans (*nix, Mac, Windows)
  • VisualStudio (Windows)

If you only need to get through one or two classes:

• Pico/Nano (*nix)
• Notepad (Windows only)

Programming Challenges and Competitions

• LSU@ACM SigCon Practice
• ICPC
• High Performance Computing
  • SC'09
  • SC'08 Problem Set
  • SC'07 Problem Set