Helpful tools and Resources

[Malcolm]

Here are some tools to help any developer with their projects. This list may adapt, change at anytime. Want to add to the list? Comment down below.

Text Editors:

• Sublime ~ A sophisticated text editor for code, mark-up and prose by Sublimehq.
• Visual Studio Code ~ Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere. (Commonly known as VSCode).
• VSCodium ~ VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code.
• Emeditor - Text Editor.
• Notepad++ - Source code editor.
• EMACS ~ Text Editor.
• Vim ~ Text Editor.
• Panic Nova - Text Editor for MacOS.

IDEs (Integrated Development Environments):

• Visual Studio ~ An IDE by Microsoft.
• Eclipse ~ An IDE by Eclipse Foundation.
• CodeLite ~ An IDE for C++, Node.JS and PHP.
• Code::Blocks ~ An IDE for C, C++ and Fortran.
• Android Studios ~ Provides tools for developers developing on Android devices by Google and JetBrains.
• XCode ~Provides tools for developers developing on all apple devices by Apple Inc.
• MonoDevelop ~ An IDE for C#, F#, Visual Basic .NET, Vala.
• IDE - GeeksforGeeks ~ A web IDE for C, C#, C++, Java, PHP, HTML & JS etc.
• PHPStorm ~ A PHP IDE by JetBrains.
• IntelliJ IDEA ~ Java IDE.
• ZeroBrane ~ A Lua IDE.
• PyCharm ~ An IDE for Python by JetBrains.

Game Engines:

• Unity 3D
• Unreal Engine
• Godot Engine
• GameMaker Studio
• Adventure Game Studio

Model Creation/Animation/Graphic Design:

• Blender ~ Free and Open 3D Creation Software.
• Maya ~ 3D animation software.
• Inkscape ~ Vector graphics editor.
• Krita ~ Open sourced painting program.
• Affinity Designer ~ Vector graphic design.
• Affinity Photo ~ Photo editing.
• Resolve ~ Video Production.
• Pixlr ~ Online photo editing program and tools.

References

• MDN: Mozilla Developer Network ~ A developer web docs by Mozzila (Creators of FireFox).
• C++ Shell ~ A C++ playground (C++ 98, C++11 and C++14).
• w3schools.com ~ Online Web Tutorials.
• DevDocs.io ~ Developer Docs.

Courses & Apps

• Udemy ~ Online course.
• Code Academy ~ Online coding course.
• Khan Academy ~ Online course.
• ProgrammingHub ~ Programming Hub: Learn to Code.
• Mimo ~ Learn to code.
• DataCamp - Introduction to Python
• DataCamp - Introduction to SQL
• DataCamp - Introduction to R
• DataCamp - Machine Learning for Everyone
• DataCamp - Data Science for Everyone
• DataCamp - Data Engineering for Everyone

Task/Bug Management

• Trello ~ Project Management.
• Bugzilla ~ Bug tracker.
• Mantis Bug Tracker ~ Bug tracker.
• Redmine ~ Issue tracker.
• Toodledo ~ Task Manager.

Hosting

• Github.com ~ Code hosting.
• Github Pages ~ Host static webpages.
• AWS S3 Buckets ~ Amazon Web Services.
• AWS EC2 ~ Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• DigitalOcean ~ Developer Cloud Hosting.

Browsers

• Mozila FireFox Developer Edition
• Vivaldi ~ Web browser.
• Google Chrome ~ Web browser.
• Browserling ~ An online browser.

File Transfer

• FileZilla
• WinSCP
• WinRar
• 7Zip

Website Software

• Wordpress ~ Blog platform/CMS. (Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS - WordPress.org for download, WordPress.com: Build a Site, Sell Your Stuff, Start a Blog & More for hosted).
• Concrete5 ~ CMS
• Blogger ~ Blog publishing.
• SMF (Simple Machine Forum) ~ Forum Software.
• XenForo ~ Forum Software.
• vBulletin ~ Forum Software.

Music/Sound Editing

• Ardour ~ Record, Edit, Mix audio.
• ZynAddSubFX ~ Synthesizer for Ardour.
• Audacity ~ Audio Editor and Recorder.
• FL Studio ~ Audio Workstation.

Version Control

• Git ~ Version Control System.

Servers

• Apache
• gunicorn
• nginx
• flask

Other

• Coolors ~ an online generator for color palettes.
• ColorHunt.io ~ Colour pallets for designers and artists.
• Brand Colors ~ Large collection of official brand colours.
• Spamresource ~ All things deliverability.

Please note: items indicated with () are free, while (/$) indicates the resources have both free and paid options. This may not be accurate for everything.

 

[ForwardWeb - Branden]

resolve is a good video production software https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

 

[Malcolm]

resolve is a good video production software https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Resolve has been added to the list. 🙂

 

[ForwardWeb - Branden]

https://ardour.org one of the best DAW fpr music production

synthesizer plugin

About ZynAddSubFX

 

[ForwardWeb - Branden]

https://www.concrete5.org looks to be a nice alternative to WordPress perhaps we should add it to the list?

 

[Malcolm]

https://ardour.org one of the best DAW fpr music production

synthesizer plugin

About ZynAddSubFX

https://www.concrete5.org looks to be a nice alternative to WordPress perhaps we should add it to the list?

All have been added! 🙂

 

[ForwardWeb - Branden]

correction zyn is a software synthesizer that can be used with ardour not a editor

 

[Malcolm]

correction zyn is a software synthesizer that can be used with ardour not a editor

Has been corrected! Thank you.

 

[DiscoveryOV]

+1 on Visual Studio Code, it starts up faster than Atom and has some pretty cool features. One of the most useful imo is it'll suggest an extension (plugin) if you open a file extension it doesn't know how to format.

@Malcolm The name is wrong in your list btw, it's Visual Studio Code 😛

 

[Malcolm]

+1 on Visual Studio Code, it starts up faster than Atom and has some pretty cool features. One of the most useful imo is it'll suggest an extension (plugin) if you open a file extension it doesn't know how to format.

@Malcolm The name is wrong in your list btw, it's Visual Studio Code 😛

I haven’t tried Visual Studio Code, what type of cool features does it have? I’m a little curious.
Oh that’s actually pretty useful, saves space!

Corrected 🙂

 

[Ash]

WordPress is amazing as a CMS for a blog or a website. It is extremely user friendly and perfect for any type of project.
Love Atom as well

 

[Dan-Kode]

Here are some new Resources for Devs:

• Git - Version-Control-System
• Toodledo - Task Management
• Audacity
• BoscaCeoil

I have used these pieces of Software(Apart from Git) and they're all pretty good. Add them to the list.

 

[Dan-Kode]

Hey, I've got some more Tools:

• FL Studio
• IntelliJ IDEA
• w3schools.com
• EMACS
• Vim
• Blogger
• SMF(SimpleMachinesForum[If it counts as Website Software anyway])

I suggest adding all of the above as they are all great Tools. Especially IntelliJ and w3schools.com.

 

[Dan-Kode]

Here are a couple more Tools:

• Zerobrane Studio(Lua IDE)
• WinRar
• 7Zip

 

[Malcolm]

@Code_Block links have been added! 🙂

 

[Dan-Kode]

I've got some more great Stuff for everybody:

• Waterfox Browser(Do not add this)
• Opera Browser
• phpBB
• MyBB

(Note: I'm not sure if Video-Related Tools can be on here but here they are just in case):

• OBS Studio
• VLC Media-Player
• Hypercam 2

 

[Tealk]

• Vivaldi ~ Web browser.
• Google Chrome ~ Web browser.

Chrome should not be recommended.
Data protection is massively disregarded and ad blockers are currently being cut.

Waterfox Browser

Waterfox is a fork from Firefox that is not up to date.

 

[Dan-Kode]

I crossed-out WaterFox from my List. I actually myself have used it and my God the amount of Memory it was taking up was too high.

 

[Tealk]

I prefer Firefox with a few add-ons to protect privacy.

Recommended Add-ons [Beginners]

• uBlock Origin
• Decentraleyes
• First Party Isolation
• Smart Referer
• Skip Redirect
• Neat URL

Recommendable Add-ons [Advanced]

• uMatrix - If you install the add-on, you can do without the following add-ons [Beginners]:
  • NoScript
  • Smart Referer
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• Temporary Containers

Recommended settings / user.js [Advanced]

• ghacks user.js

Source

 

[Dan-Kode]

Okay then, here is some more stuff:

• Opera Browser
• phpBB + MyBB
• NetBeans
• JMonkey Game Engine
• GIMP(Gnu-Image-Manipulation-Program)

(I'm not sure if APIs can be added but here are some just in case):

• OpenGL
• OpenAL
• LWJGL
• JOGL(Java-OpenGL)