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Efficient programming and usability of the resulting software

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

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 tools and enhancements

• Catkin simple
• Catkin Command Line Tools (fast parallel catkin)

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

Solving Problems:

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