Programming Tools and Frameworks

C++ 

• GLV - (Graphics Library of Views) is a GUI building toolkit written in C++ for Linux, OSX, and Win32. GLV is specially designed for creating interfaces to real-time, multimedia applications using hardware accelerated graphics. GLV has no dependencies on other libraries other than OpenGL which is provided by all modern operating systems.
• CSL - The CREATE Signal Library (CSL, pron. "sizzle") is a cross-platform general-purpose software framework for sound synthesis and digital audio signal processing. It is implemented as a C++ class library to be used as a stand-alone synthesis server, or embedded as a library into other programs.CSL provides simple and reusable implementations of all common sound synthesis and processing techniques, and includes support for a wide variety of audio I/O interfaces such as PortAudio, RTAudio, JACK, VST, CoreAudio and JUCE.
• Gamma - Gamma is a cross-platform, C++ library for doing generic synthesis and filtering of numerical data. It is oriented towards real-time sound and graphics rendering, but is equally useful for non-real-time tasks.
• Polycode - C++ creative coding library, largely graphics/UI oriented
• OpenFrameworks C++ creative coding library, kind of a Swiss army knife. Largely graphics, sound, and video handling, but has network, Arduino, computer vision, etc. components
• Libcinder  C++ creative coding library again. Again mostly graphics and video. Windows and Mac only, would love to see a Linux port (nudge, nudge :-)
• ZeroMQ Message passing and network framework, makes throwing data around reliable and easy.

 

Computer Vision

• OpenCV and SimpleCV for computer vision, object recognition, etc.

 

Robotics

• ROS is ostensibly a robotics sensor and hardware control framework, but it also makes it easy to develop and share modular applications that work on streams of data from, e.g. webcams or biometric devices.

 

Data Viz

• Processing
• http://processingjs.org/
• How to get your processing sketches onto your Android phone: http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/processing-android-mobile-app-development-made-very-easy 
• Gephi
• http://gephi.org/
• https://sci2.cns.iu.edu/user/index.php  
• Slides showing some other tools: http://www.slideshare.net/mattb/science-hackday-using-visualisation-to-understand-your-data  

 

 Data wrangling

• Google Refine
• Data Wrangler
• Data Science Toolkit
• CSVkit 

 

GitHub

• Open source project hosting and collaboration platform.
• Hosts projects like IPython and other open source scientific software toolchains.
• Check out the 2013 Science Hack Day repository, add & create your own project or just sign up and use GitHub on your own.

 

Java

• JScience - provides abstractions for many common scientific and mathematical datatypes.
• Java Numerics
• Apache Commons Math library
• Stereo - a Java library that lets users easily perform active, passive and anaglyph stereographic rendering in the Processing programming environment.

 

Javascript 

• Graphing
• http://raphaeljs.com/  
• RGraph: http://www.rgraph.net/ (JS/HTML5)
• ProtoViz: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/ (JS/HTML5)
• Processing in JS: http://processingjs.org/ 

 

.NET/C#

• NMath

 

Other

• Cosm - Cosm is an integrated collection of externals and abstractions to assist the construction of navigable, sonified virtual worlds using Max/MSP/Jitter. Cosm has been designed to require only minimal changes to existing Max/MSP/Jitter patches to support a number of features valuable in the creation of virtual worlds.
• LuaAV - LuaAV is an integrated programming environment based upon extensions to the Lua programming language to enable the tight real-time integration of computation, time, sound and space. It is intended to support: Computational Audiovisual Composition, Interactive arts, Multimedia development research, Scientific visualization, Research application development
• DeviceServer - The DeviceServer is both a framework and application for providing interactive affordances to client applications. It allows applications to easily link functionalities to a wide variety of devices (joysticks, wiimotes, iphones, camera tracking systems). It also allows users to see all devices connected to the server, monitor their signals and record them for future playback.

 

Python

• SciPy
• NumPy
• PyFITS (for reading FITS images / tables -- common in astronomy)
• PIL  
• Network/Graph tools
• http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonGraphApi
• Graphing In Python
• http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Plotting
• http://astrometry.net/downloads -- some miscellaneous astronomy utils (for handling SDSS data, eg, a slicker PyFits wrapper, code for plotting stuff on the sky)  (-Dustin Lang -- I'll be watching email on Nov 13, drop a note to code2 at astrometry.net for help)
• SciKits
• Pandas  - Python data analysis toolkit -  for R users moving to Python or Python users wanting some of R's handy tabular data features.
• Biopython - set of freely available tools for biological computation
• NiPy - Neuroimaging in Python, open libraries 

 

R

• R
• CRAN
• RPy
• ggplot2
• OpenCV and SimpleCV for computer vision, object recognition, etc.
• Polycode, OpenFrameworks, and LibCinder for rapid general hacking
• R interface to data science toolkit
• rOpenSci - R interface for open science APIs
• BioConductor -  provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data.

 

Ruby

• Graphing libraries
• Gruff Graphs
• Scruffy
• Sparklines
• RGL
• NArray Numerical Ruby
• RNum

 

Voxeo 

• The Voxeo site has some really easy to use tools for people who want to develop telephony applications. The tools are free for developer use.