BABAR Programming Page

Last update: 13 April 2004

The intention of this page is to bring together the various references and pointers relating to compiled programming languages and object technology. There are general recommendations (previously these were only for offline) and the online group have specific practices that they'd like you to follow when programming:

• General recommendations
• gcc3 warning recommendations
• Online recommendations

If you see an error on this page, or would like to add something, please send your ideas to me,

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Getting Started

• Overview of getting help, editors, compilers, and debuggers under UNIX
• Class notes for BaBar C++ classes
• Selected Bibliography of C, C++ and Fortran books, and Chris Day's private selection
• Annotated bibliography of books about UNIX and programming (from misc.books.technical)
• Recommendations for naming and numbering conventions and what units to use when writing BaBar software.
• Guidelines for writing BABAR offline software
• Directory of useful coding examples (not yet available)
• SLAC's /usr/local/doc directory of on-line documentation and FAQs

On-line tutorials and information on specific programming topics:

• Code examples from John J. Barton and Lee R. Nackman's text "Scientific and Engineering C++: An Introduction with Advanced Techniques and Examples"
• C++ Coronado tutorial (additional pointers)
  Note: (7/26/2001) Coronado has revitalized and offers an updated (to the C++ standard) version of its tutorial. Please see their web page for more information.
• C Tutorials
• Fortran90 Tutorial articles (by Mike Metcalf at CERN)
• Fortran90 for FORTRAN 77 programmers, Tutorial (by Einarsson and Shokin, 111 pp. text)
• Tcl/Tk man pages (Tcl/Tk is a scripting language with GUI capability)
• Additional Tcl/Tk information from Scriptics Corp.
• Perl information (scripting language>
• Tutorial on writing Perl scripts with SQL to query the electronic logbook database
• OOP slides from David Quarrie's Oct '94 talk
• OOP slides from Paul Kunz's Feb '94 talk
• emacs text editor tutorial (by Free Software Foundation)
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for
  • OOP
  • C++
  • STL
  • C
  • Fortran
  These FAQs are also available to local SLAC users in /usr/local/doc/FAQ/.

Other programming references

• C++ ANSI Standard 2003. Contact chee@slac.stanford.edu for access.
• Public Review 1997 version C++ Standard
• Draft C++ Standard (in PostScript as of 3 May 1995)
• C++ Virtual Library (at DESY)
• FreeHEP -- library of HEP contributed software
• NETLIB - Library of Numerical Analysis software (maintained at ORNL)

Advanced Topics

• Topics on software engineering

Coding Templates

Formal Coding Standard Candidates (Rules and Recommendations) from other sources

• CDF Software Guidelines (FORTRAN77)
• STAR Software Guidelines (FORTRAN77, Fortran 90, and C)