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Efficient programming and usability of the resulting software

• Libraries often used at the Autonomous Systems Lab
• Styleguide used at the Autonomous Systems Lab
• Auto formatter for this style-guide
• How to profile code
• Code-review process
• Unit tests
• Build server

The Catkin Build System

Getting started and building packages

• Overview over catkin
• Transitioning from rosbuild to catkin
• Rosmake to catkin migration script
• Catkin command detailed documentation

Catkin and python modules

• Adding python C++ bindings to your catkin package
• Catkin and python
• Catkin python module installation

Catkin simple and catkin build

• Catkin simple
• Catkin Simple solutions to common issues
• Catkin Command Line Tools (fast parallel catkin)

IDE integration

• Eclipse (see additional Eclipse guidelines below)
• QT creator

Other tools for efficient development

• CCache a fast compiler cache

The Robot Operating System (ROS)

Nice and easy to understand tutorials to get started with ROS for beginners can be found here:

• ROS Tutorials
• ROS C++ Hello World (The Simplest ROS Tutorial)
• A Gentle Introduction to Catkin
• Building Modular ROS Packages

Guidelines

General guidelines, tips, and best practices (at the ASL) are documented here:

• ROS Best Practices

Books:

• A Gentle Introduction to ROS (Jason M. O'Kane)

Solving Problems:

• A good starting point is the website http://answers.ros.org

Eclipse IDE

• Eclipse C++11
• Eclipse Increase Heap Size
• Eclipse Remote Project (SSH)