I was recently asked to rate my C++ skill level from 1 to 10 with 10 being the highest. I've been programming in C++ for a little over 4 years now with most of that coming from my undergrad education at VT. I was just curious what you all thought you should know at certain levels. level 1 - you should know this level 2 - you should know that . . . level 10 - you're a c++ guru [Edited by - fartocci on April 25, 2005 6:05:35 PM]

Well i had to rate myself in the same way for a placement application and i put myself as 7. The thought behind this was that i know most, if not all of the basics and am well in to learning the more advanced stuff. What i dont do is know the best patterns and perfect syntax for nearly all OO problems.

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Of interest.

There are no markers for knowing a language apart from how competently you can write a program that you intend to write. The only way I know of doing that is by trying to do it and seeing how well you do.

For example, you could write a text editor.

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Of interest.

There are no markers for knowing a language apart from how competently you can write a program that you intend to write. The only way I know of doing that is by trying to do it and seeing how well you do.

For example, you could write a text editor.

I suppose a better question may be: What topics in c++ programming can be considered novice, intermediate, and advance?

Which subgroup would namespaces, templates, polymorphism, inheritance, overloaded functions, overridden functions, overloaded operators, virtual and pure virtual functions, abstract classes, concrete classes, etc etc be considered? Thats what I'm wondering. That was an interesting article...

A good starting point is probably the Guru of the week series of articles. These are rated on a scale of 1-10, although the author does note in the associated books that what some folks find a 4, others might find a 9 (and vice versa).

I think a lot of people also underestimate just how flexible a lot of C++ is, and how much you can do with it. The most complex stuff I've read is probably the Modern C++ Design stuff (ie the Loki library) and some of the more esoteric Boost libraries - be interesting to see what level some of those are considered to be.

Jim.

Thanks everybody... I always hate the self rating questions and just wanted some input on what others thought.

Level 1 - I know how to write a simple program (loops, structures, memory allocation, cout, etc...)
Level 2 - I understand virtual functions & inheritence
Level 3 - I know how to use the STL (stringstream, deque, vector, map, set, etc...)
Level 4 - I know how to customize the STL (adaptors, functors, allocators, etc...)
Level 5 - I can write (useful) Standard C++ code that MSVC6 cannot compile
Level 6 - I have knowledge of all features (bitfields specifiers, koenig look-up, & other esoteric things)
Level 7 - I grok virtual inheritence (interfaces)
Level 8 - I grok advanced template topics such as partial ordering
Level 9 - I have several bug patchs credits in boost, ACE, Loki, etc...
Level 10 - You have to pay me six-digits to talk to you


Hehe, I'm a 9 with this list ;)


I think metatemplates are rated a higher complexity than they really deserve - the meta-template algorithms are not that complicated, it's the implementation that's a pain only because advanced templates require you to know some of the more esoteric rules.



When they ask these questions I think they are more looking for you to critically assess yourself. A sign of gross incompetence is to greatly over-rate your capabilities.

Virtual inheritance isn't really that complicated is it? o_O

:: makes mental note to find himself a good reference on the implementation of that stuff. ::