Programming References

Assembly languages

• The Art of Assembly Language Programming

A free online book about -- guess what -- the art of assembly language programming. This book concentrates on the Intel x86 architecture, but concepts can be applied to any processor. It also uses Intel syntax assembly, which is found in several popular assemblers, including Netwide Assembler.

C++

• Dinkumware C++ Library Reference
A great reference for all C and C++ programmers, the Dinkumware reference is a comprehensive list of classes and library functions as defined in the ANSI/ISO C++ standard.


• SGI Standard Template Library programmer's guide
This documentation is for the SGI Standard Template Library (STL) implementation, a collection of C++ classes which include the ANSI/ISO STL classes and a few new ones (such as hash_map).


• C++ FAQ Lite
As the topic suggests, it's a list of Frequently Asked Questions about C++. Includes lots of stuff about C++'s object-oriented features that might hassle programmers coming from C. Also a good link for EECS 370 students. Thanks to Venkat Narayanan for pointing it out!

HTML

• HTML 4.0 Specification
A complete list of all standard HTML tags and attributes, as defined by the HTML 4.0 standard passed by the World Wide Web consortium.

JavaScript

• Netscape JavaScript 1.2 Reference
Documentation for the version of JavaScript shipped with Netscape 4.0 (includes objects and methods from previous versions of Netscape as well).
• MSDN: DHTML, HTML and CSS

Microsoft's guide to using Dynamic HTML (HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript) with Internet Explorer.

Java

• Java2 SDK documentation- index
  Index of documents pertaining to the Java2 development platform.
• Java2 core classes(API) Reference
  An alphabetical list of all classes and methods in Java. One frame shows all of the classes in alphabetical order; you may also browse the classes by the packages containing them.
• Java2 Language Specification
  The official language specification.

Other

• Request for Comments (RFCs)
  A searchable index of RFCs, the schematics for many of the protocols we rely upon today (FTP, HTTP, etc.).