What Coding Resource Should I Use?

Julius C asks: "What coding resource should one use? There are so many out there. Should I go to the big jungle, Internet.com? Or what about Planet-Source-Code.com? There is even this promising new site DeskCode.com. All have their pluses, but what is the best for me? I am a serious die-hard programmer like many out there. My only thirst is the thirst for new unheard of knowledge. Internet.com seems to provide to those who like reading through articles written by a group of know it alls. That's good for some, but I like code, I like reading up-to-the-minute stuff contributed by my peers. Where do I go for that?"

"When I first started on this quest for a place on the net where I can call home, a lot of people pointed me to HotScripts.com. Now this is a good site. But it is only a site full of links. I have to give it up to the creator of the site for creating the Yahoo!-like link central for coding but that is all HotScripts is, a link repository.

Then one of my peers sent me to a site called Planet-Source-Code.com. Now at first I was amazed. I couldn't believe it; this site had most of what I was looking for. Discussion groups, code and articles submitted, well by a group of know-it-alls, but I guess a decent group I could live with. For months I made this my home and all was great. But time came for me to test new waters. I still had to find the perfect home on the net.

Early this month, I saw a post on a message board, about this new site called DeskCode.com. Now this site is perfect. Code submissions by users, wow. So I decided 'Hmm, let me test it!' What did you know, the code was submitted and it showed up right on the main page after I hit refresh. Wow. People will actually read the knowledge I have to share. To make things better, it even had voting for its submissions, so they can even tell me if my code stinks. The site is filled with tons of features not found on the big corporate sites. Now this was great. The only problem with the site is that the user-base is low. Hopefully the site is run by some headstrong people and won't see its doom anytime soon. Until then, or when another site shows up with better features DeskCode.com will be my home. What do the rest of you think?"

Lame

[Anonymous Coward]

So did deskcode.com pay for this fake Ask Slashdot advert, or was Cliff just too dumb to notice this incredibly obvious plug?

Devshed

[jfunk]

A site I like is www.devshed.com [devshed.com].

It focuses on web programming, so you won't find C or anything, but you'll find tons of stuff for my new favourite languages, PHP and Python.

Besides, posting this will nullify my accidental moderation up of a seemingly innocuous link that displayed the disgusting picture favoured by the trolls around here. I even hovered over the link to check first. I can't believe someone registered "techiescripts.com" for that purpose...

Re:freecode

[bolind]

Hmmm, the above link points to our beloved baseballbat-ravished male rectum (goatse.cx) but there appears to be a freecode.com, which does what the guy wants...

Bo

Old code, but great stuff...

[cr0sh]

Want a great programming resource?

Check out Programmer's Heaven [programmersheaven.com], more code than you can shake a stick at!

You apparently can add submissions in some manner. It started out as a collection of files on two CD-ROMs, which are near impossible to find now (I managed to grab a copy from somewhere, probably Walnut Creek, before they started getting real scarce). Lots of great code, ideas, articles and such on just about every programming topic and problem.

While a lot of the code isn't cutting edge, it is still an excellent resource, no matter what language you code in...

Worldcom [worldcom.com] - Generation Duh!

Any sites not focused on MS-Windows?

[RocketJeff]

All of the sites that I've found (including the sites mentioned in this article/followup) seem to be mainly focused on MS-Windows. My favorite in this genre is Code Project [codeproject.com] (although it used to be Code Guru [codeguru.com] until they sold out to developer.com - the site useability went downhill fast after that).

Arre there any sites like this that aren't focused on MS-Windows? I'd prefer a 'generic' site, but one with a Linux/Open Source/*nix slant would be fine also.

For OS/2 programming ...

[LordNimon]

... there's one key source: http://www.edm2.com/links/index.html [edm2.com]. It contains pointers to every other OS/2 development web site and resource on the Internet.
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Re:Lame

[Paradise_Pete]

Why does your submission read like a script from an infomercial? Why does it read nothing at all like your above post? It's hard to beleive they were even written by the same person.

We're late...

[smack_attack]

But we'll be laying the smack down on every one of the programming sites out there.

You know who we are. Sign up for the notification and I'll give you a free t-shirt, even if

... [sound of struggling] ....

I'm sorry folks, no free t-shirts. We're not trying to be all gimmicky like those other programming sites, we're all about just straight-out programmer to programmer collaboration. But we might send you an AOL coaster if you ask nicely.

deskcode.com

[NiceSocks]

that www.deskcode.com [deskcode.com] site looks great, stuff is a little broken here and there and needs some more submited stuff, but for a new site it looks like its doing great and has real promise

Re:Lame

[J Ceasar]

hey buddy no one paid me to write this article, nor am i from deskcode. I resent that remark. They put the word out, I visited the site. I liked it a lot, eventhough it was buggy at first. Matter of fact a lot of the collegues from my C and Java developement group like it so much that we have started a collection of code and tutorials that we are gonna post at the site for others. Thats for being an $#@. Appreciate hard good work when you see it. Some of us like the fact that deskcode lets basically its user run the site. Julius C