Chapter 1. Background Information

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Required Reading
VR Juggler Virtual Platform: Mission Statement

Before diving into development tasks, we present some background information. This is to help newcomers understand the project and its goals, and it serves to keep existing developers on track and up to speed.

Required Reading

  • Our coding standard.

  • Design Patterns (Book: ISBN 0-201-63361-2) and Design Patterns in general

  • Autoconf documentation. (Try doing info autoconf).

  • Automake documentation. (Try doing info automake).

  • GNU make documentation. (Try doing a man or info on make or gmake. There is a good book on using make by O'Reilly and Associates).

  • Perl documentation. (Try doing a man on perl. There are several good books on Perl by O'Reilly and Associates).

  • Doxygen documentation (used in the various modules comprising VR Juggler to auto-generate documentation for C++ classes).

  • CVS documentation (used for revision control).