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www.artima.com

I read this daily. I highly recommend it. Some heavyweights post there.

For a well-written tutorial on Ruby, goto:

www.rubycentral.com/book/intro.html [edit: & don't forget the 'l' ]

The Ruby home page: www.ruby-lang.org/en/

for Ruby On Rails, goto: www.rubyonrails.org/

On the newsgroups (usenet), it's: comp.lang.ruby

For those not familiar, Ruby is a fully OO language, a tad more flexible than C++, (not as strongly typed), and (imo) a good deal less complicated. It includes handy text searching/replacement, etc., similar to Perl. It's an interpreted rather than compiled language.

The code reflects the "clean" design of the language. It's no problem to having integers, strings, and floating point in the same array - no special coding required, for instance.

Warning: The tutorial is SO well-written that you'll want to learn Ruby, even if you had no interest in the language, beforehand.

Adak

For info on Tkinter (a GUI-implimenting class of Python), go to: http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/.

For info on pygame (a game-building class in Python), go to: http://www.pygame.org/.

Mad_Comp
posts++ (how to add 1 in Java without doing: posts = posts + 1 )

Here is a tutorial that I found for C#. I don't know how good this tutorial is, but it looks good from my quick look.

Donald E. Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming, Volumn 4
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Amit’s Game Programming Information
C++ Newbie Tutorial

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http://programmingishard.com

Eternally Confuzzled has some really good information on data structures and algorithms. The site focuses on providing relevant information and implementations for day to day programmers that might not have enough mathematical / CS related background to understand an academic paper or similar document.

Topics include:

• Andersson Trees
• AVL Trees
• Binary Search Trees
• Hash Tables
• Red Black Trees
• Skip Lists
• Linked Lists
• Random Numbers
• The Art of Sorting
• The Art of Hashing
• All About Pointers
• Asymptotic Notation
• Using rand()