game programming:

http://ftp.game.org/ (mud text game codebases)

http://gammon.com.au/ (best resource for help with setting up mud games and its even an aussie site)

http://darkoth.kyndig.com/ (good selection of snippets for mud games)

http://www.devmaster.net/

http://www.gametutorials.com/ (this site is good for all programming but there mostly geared to game programming)

http://www.xploiter.com/programming/c/c2cplus.shtml

 

http://www.blender.org

(open source 3d modeling program equal to 3ds max or maybe better i havent used it that much its much smaller and uses less resources like most open source software)