My favorite tools (Collections)

# Computer science course related:

💻 Coding:

• IntelliJ IDEA 🪟🍎🐧 If your coding language is Java, IntelliJ is the ONLY way! Modern UI, enormous plugin market, easy environment configuration… There is no other Java IDE that works as charm as IntelliJ!
• VS code (open source) 🌐🪟🍎🐧 Lightweight, supports various languages, modern UI, my favorite text editor.
• Notepad++ (open source) 🪟 Extremely lightweight, its function kinda overlapping with VS code.

Remember the efficiency of a tool depends on your proficiency with it.

📐 Software Modeling:

• Draw.IO (open source) 🌐🧩 A lightweight graph/diagram tool, suitable for making simple UML diagrams, user case diagrams, and other simple diagram designs. Every featured image of my posts is designed by this tool.
• PlantUML (open source) 🌐🧩 A powerful UML diagram language, I used it in complicated UML diagram design. The usage and syntax of this language are on their website.
• Mermaid Live Editor (open source) 🌐 A beautiful online tool for designing flowcharts, sequence charts, and more.

🔎 Academic Research:

• BibGuru 🌐 My favorite citation tool.
• QuillBot 🌐 Paraphrase tool, but the free version has limited word counts.
• Turnitin 🌐 Plagiarism checker, professional but pricy.

# System tools:

🛠️ Must-have:

• PeaZip (open source) 🪟🍎🐧Open, and extract RAR TAR ZIP 7z … files.
• PotPlayer 🪟Universal media player.
• Everything 🪟Search files in Windows.
• Flameshot (open source) 🪟🍎🐧 Screenshot tools.

🛡️ Security:

• • VeraCrypt (open source) 🪟🍎🐧 Disk encryption.
  • KeePassXC (open source) 🪟🍎🐧 Local password manager.
  • BleachBit (open source) 🪟🐧 Disk cleaner.
  • EDS Lite (open source) [Android] Disk encryption.
  • Disk Decipher [IOS] Disk encryption.
  • Picocrypt  (open source) 🪟🍎🐧Micro encryption tool.

 

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