Who to ask

• See the computing organization page for who's responsible for what
• Use the problem report form and tracking system to report and track problems with offline software and infrastructure. The access is made through guest/guest account.

Computing Tutorials

Tools and libraries used in STAR software

Training Courses

• STAR offline software tutorials are held monthly (first Friday of the month), with more extensive sessions surrounding the collaboration meeting.
• C++/OO training courses
  • Object Mentor (Robert Martin)
    • Mar 15-19, 1999 STAR course info. Contact T. Wenaus
  • Martin Purschke's course, Data Analysis Using C++
  • Steven Gowdy's BaBar course, Object Orientation and C++
  • Rational
  • Paul Kunz's "C++ for Particle Physicists" course
    • Description
  • July 13-17, 1998, BNL: 'Advanced' C++ course (Clarity)
    • Course content: Page 1, Page 2 (scanned fax)
• ITD has available tutorial video tapes on many subjects for loan in the documentation store
• ITD also offers regular computer training courses, generally on stuff like Excel and Word.
• FERMILAB computing training

Offline Software

• Current software: release and usage information
• The tutorials are the principal source of information on how to use STAR offline software.
• Offline code, searchable and hyperlinked with cross references
• Offline software page
• Software infrastructure page

Standards, guidelines, conventions

• Coding standards and guidelines
  • C++ code templates
• Numbering schemes: STAR Geometry, STAR note 229
• Coordinate system: STAR note 121

Unix

• STAR environment
• General: Reference, CERN guide
• Solaris: Solaris 2.x and compiler documentation (local), Complete doc set (at Sun, slower)

Windows NT in STAR

Web

• STAR web organization
• STAR web guide
• Maintenance and development

Technical References

C++

• Dinkum C/C++ library reference
• C++ tutorials from DevCentral
• STL Programmer's Guide from SGI; SGI STL available for download there
• SGI's STL resource page
• STL adaptation page and STLport adaptation effort
• Rogue Wave standard library reference
• C++ FAQ
• Effective C++ (Meyers)
• Why C++? - Robert Martin
• OO design principles - Robert Martin
• Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage
• comp.lang.c++.moderated newsgroup; high info to dreck ratio
• C++ resources
• Guru of the week; improve your knowledge of C++
• Good C++ books. I and/or the group have a copy of each in my office. Feel free to borrow.
  • Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, THIRD edition
    The Bible, just updated to ANSI final draft
  • Barton and Nackman, C++ for Scientists and Engineers
    Excellent book for Fortranists. Used by Paul Kunz for his course.
  • Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++
    Why C++ is the way it is, and why its success as a scientific programming language was a direct consequence of considerations that went into its design (something not true of eg. Java)
  • Meyers, Effective C++
    With the More... book, lots of useful tips and techniques
  • Meyers, More Effective C++
  • Gamma et al, Design Patterns
    Made a very big impact, and with reason. A cookbook of class designs for particular generic applications. Excellent.
  • Lippman, C++ Primer, THIRD edition
    A very popular general C++ book, easier going than Stroustrup, equally comprehensive and fat in the third edition.
  • Coplien, Advanced C++: Programming Styles and Idioms
    Appreciated by many experts for its OO design ideas.
  • Martin, Designing Object-Oriented Applications Using The Booch Method
    The BaBar Bible, basis of the design course taken by all BaBar software developers.
  • Carroll and Ellis, Designing and Coding Reusable C++
    Considerations in developing library code in C++: making code portable to many platforms, usable, reusable. Very applicable to what we do.
  • Lippman, Inside the C++ Object Model
    Interesting and educational look deep into the guts of how C++ works.

Links of interest

• CDF C++ coding guidelines
• MINOS 'OO Companion'
• "Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++" online course.
• 'C++ Annotations' course, U. Groningen. C++ course for those knowledgable in C.
• egcs gcc development project