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Tools suitable for coding

Geany (recommended, used in class)
Visual studio code (Good text editor, needs configuration, extensions and GCC installed separately, recommended)
VSCodium (Same as VS code, but without big brother on your shoulder)
KDevelop (a powerful IDE started in the Linux world)
CLion (Professional IDE for C/C++)
Sublime Text
Atom
Code::Blocks
Notepad++

Code analysis tools

cppcheck – Linter, configured as default in Geany, performs static analysis on code.
clang-tidy – Linter, performs static analysis on code.
https://pythontutor.com/c.html – Web based code visualizer and debugger

Tools suitable for modelling

Visual Paradigm Community Edition (used in class, community license free by providing an e-mail address).
Visual Paradigm Online (web based)
ArgoUML [Windows setup]

Open me to get the guide for Linux

1. Open the terminal on your desktop (right click, “Open terminal”). If you wish to put ArgoUML in a different folder, open it there.
2. Write the following commands. First we will update our knowledge of software, then we will update all the software that is out of date. Then we will install Java JDK and download and unpack ArgoUML. Lastly, we will remove the archive that we downloaded and don’t need any more. Only the unpacked files will remain. This process needs to be done only once.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install openjdk-14-jre-headless
wget blue.pri.ee/ttu/files/argo.zip
unzip argo.zip
rm argo.zip

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install openjdk-14-jre-headless

wget blue.pri.ee/ttu/files/argo.zip

unzip argo.zip

rm argo.zip

3. Now lets run ArgoUML. First we go to the right folder and then run it.

cd ArgoUML
java -jar argouml.jar

1 2	cd ArgoUML java -jar argouml.jar

NB! If you are already in the right folder or open the terminal from the ArgoUML folder, you don’t need to write the first line. cd command is used to change directory where the command prompt is currently at.
ArgoUML will work until you either close it or until you close the terminal window you opened it from!

Astah (student license available with uni-id e-mail)
StarUML
Microsoft Visio (requires license, freely available for IT faculty students through Azure)
draw.io (web based)

Virtualization

Virtualbox
VMware Workstation Pro and Player Pro
Hyper-V on Windows 10/11 (Pro, Edu, Ent)

List of challenges (tasks to solve by programming)

NB! Some of these may have changed from free to partially or fully paid over time. Websites are not regularly validated for their policies.

Additional reading

NB! The links here are given to help understand and read further into the topics covered during the course. The material however is not curated by us and therefore it might not be fully or at all in conjunction with the course contents and the coding style used in the course.