The Joys of Programming

There are many things you can do with computers, but what makes them all possible is programming: The writing of instructions that allow the computer to perform a well-defined task. This activity is mentally stimulating, and some of us do it for the sheer enjoyment of creating something; of imbuing anninanimate object with seeming intelligence.

The Profession of programming
Programming Languages
Network Preogramming
Cool Hacks: Some programs are aesthetically pleasing.

The Profession of Programming

The Evolution of a Programmer - Traces how a programmer's style evolves as his career progresses from high school to Senior Manager.

Programming Languages

Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60
Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language, an essay from 1981 by Brian Kernighan, who together with Dennis Ritchie invented the C language and wrote the first compilers.

Network Programming

WinSock Documentation

Way Cool: Elegant Programming

DeathStroke's Home Page - this guy may be a little crazy, but he can teach us a lot. Cool things related to Windows.
Douglas Jones' Cross-Development Support Tools. Professor Douglas Jones, Univ of Iowa, offers portable assemblers and linkers with source code in C and Pascal.
Programming Pearls
A reference library of "known good algorithms"

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	Revision 1.5  2001/07/13 23:09:08  lars
	Added WinSock documentation references
	
	Revision 1.4  2001/01/05 07:07:29  lars
	Added links to AS/400
	
	Revision 1.3  2000/07/07 15:27:18  lars
	Added overviews of PDP-11 and VAX families.
	Added overview of x86 architecture.
	Added links about Algol
	Added flavors of windows CDs to windows overview
	Added list of programs that WIndows needs
	
	Revision 1.2  2000/06/22 07:31:56  lars
	Added links from my bookmaarks file.
	
	Revision 1.1  2000/05/11 15:12:47  lars
	New page for "programming"
	Better orginization of Funny Stuff