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• Analyzing C/C++ Code Quality by Using Code Analysis
• How to: Set Code Analysis Properties for C/C++ Projects
• Understanding SAL
• Annotating Function Parameters and Return Values
• Annotating Locking Behavior

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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With Keynotopia Mockup Bundle, you can sketch user interfaces using Apple Keynote.

When your mockups look like simple hand-drawn screens, it’s easier to get feedback on layout and structure, without getting distracted by the detail.

Keynote mockups are better than hand-drawn sketches because you can iterate on them and modify them without having to redraw them.

In the following series, learn all about STL from the great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft’s keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership with the owners of STL and Microsoft, including, of course, bug fixes and enhancements to the STL that ships as part of Visual C++).

• Part 1 (sequence containers)
• Part 2 (associative containers)
• Part 3 (smart pointers)
• Part 4 (an extended example of using the STL to solve Nurikabe puzzles)
• etc

Get 97 short and extremely useful tips from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry, including Uncle Bob Martin, Scott Meyers, Dan North, Linda Rising, Udi Dahan, Neal Ford, and many more. They encourage you to stretch yourself by learning new languages, looking at problems in new ways, following specific practices, taking responsibility for your work, and becoming as good at the entire craft of programming as you possibly can.

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There is the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know project, pearls of wisdom for programmers collected from leading practitioners. You can read through the Contributions Appearing in the Book.

Russian translation of these tips.

Andrei Alexandrescu gives his keynote presentation, “Iterators Must Go!” at BoostCon 2009. Slides are available here (pdf).

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Iterators Must Go (Google Docs)