Links
A collection of links I recommend.
Algorithmic Programming
- Swiss Olympiad in Informatics
- Helvetic Coding Contest
- SPOJ: solve algorithmic problems and submit them to the online grader
Blogs
Useful
- PONS online dictionary
- LEO online dictionary
- MeteoSchweiz
- map.geo.admin.ch, the free online version of the very nice maps by the Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
- openstreetmap.org
- WolframAlpha
Fun
- The Bureau of Communication
- xkcd, "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language"
Interesting
- Project Gutenberg, and its German version by Spiegel
- duolingo: "learn a language for free, and simultaneously translate the web"
- Stop Software Patents
Programming
- C/C++ Reference
- a very good C++ FAQ
- Markup Validation Service by W3C
- cairo, a 2D graphics library
- Markdown syntax