random technical notes

Programming Languages – commonly used features in a side-by-side format.

Rule is “No copy function, move function, or destructor be compiler-generated if any of these functions is user-provided.”

New paper: N3578, Proposing the Rule of Five—Walter Brown

cppreference.com: The Containers library is a generic collection of class templates and algorithms that allow programmers to easily implement common data structures like queues, lists and stacks.   There are three classes of containers — sequence containers, associative containers, and unordered associative containers — each of which is designed to support a different set of operations.

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We know lots of folks are either coming back to C++, coming to C++, or have never left C++. This lecture series, in n parts, is for all of you! Only STL can make that work (novice, intermediate, and advanced all bundled together and presented in a way only STL can do.)

C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++

Programming is hard. Programming correct C and C++ is particularly hard. Indeed, both in C and certainly in C++, it is uncommon to see a screenful containing only well defined and conforming code.Why do professional programmers write code like this? Because most programmers do not have a deep understanding of the language they are using.While they sometimes know that certain things are undefined or unspecified, they often do not know why it is so. In these slides we will study small code snippets in C and C++, and use them to discuss the fundamental building blocks, limitations and underlying design philosophies of these wonderful but dangerous programming languages.

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Windows Runtime, or shortly WinRT, is a new runtime (siting on top of the Windows kernel) that allows developers to write Metro style applications for Windows 8, using a variety of languages including C/C++, C#, VB.NET or JavaScript/HTML5.

WinRT is a native layer (written in C++ and being COM-based) that is intended as a replacement, or alternative, to Win32, and enables development of “immersive” applications, using the Metro style. Its API is object oriented and can be consumed both from native or managed languages, as well as JavaScript. At the same time the old Win32 applications will continue to run just as before and you can still (and most certainly will) develop Win32 applications.

Microsoft has created a new language called C++ Component Extension, or simply C++/CX. While the syntax is very similar to C++/CLI, the language is not managed, it’s still native. WinRT components built in C++/CX do not compile to managed code, but to 100% native code. A good news for C++ developers is that they can use XAML now to build the UI for immersive applications. However, this is not available for classical, Win32 applications.

Before you start here are several additional articles that you might want to read:

• WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32
• C++ Component Extensions: The New Face of COM
• C# and Visual Basic on the WinRT API
• Creating Windows Runtime Components in C++
• Tutorial: Creating and using extension SDKs
• Using the Windows Runtime from C++

Windows Runtime reference

What does OOP stand for?  When Object Oriented Programming(OOP) is taught so extensively, do computer programmers, specifically within games development…

SlideShare: “Object Oriented Programming What does OOP stand for?” Colin Riley

Additionaly:

• Programming Aesthetics learned from making independent games
• Culling the Battlefield: Data Oriented Design in Practice
• The Dark Side of C++. (pdf) Author: Felix von Leitner
• Source Code Optimization (pdf). Felix von Leitner. August 2007

The Visual Studio 2010 integrated development environment (IDE) includes several pre-defined keyboard shortcut schemes. When you start Visual Studio for the first time and select your settings, the associated schemes are automatically set. Thereafter, by using the keyboard options page in the Options dialog box, you can choose from additional schemes and you can also create your own keyboard shortcuts.

Reference posters for the default keybindings in Visual Studio 2010 for Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and Visual F#.

• Google C++ Style Guide
• Microsoft Coding Standards
• Linux kernel coding style
• Boost Guidelines
• Alexandrescu C++ Coding Standards
• Mozilla C++ Portability Guide