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Good C++11 resources for advanced programmer

Aaron Carter · 2012-10-21T16:35:19

Hey guys, I'm wanting some learning resources for C++11 oriented toward advanced programmers. I already know C and C++ quite fluently. But since I haven't used either in a couple years for any serious/commercial work, I'm a bit rusty in certain areas. Some of the things I need to brush up on: "const correctness" the various cast operators and when and when not to use each all of the stuff available in the 11 standard libraries and how to use them (I'm prone to reinvent wheels) proper C++ software design practices and conventions general best practices and pitfalls proper template class design In the past when I normally used C and C++ it was for actual systems programming, where often no implementation of the full standard libs and runtimes even existed (often had to roll my own malloc and free implementations). So while I know the syntax through-and-through, have intimate knowledge of pointers and memory and know how the language works/runs, I'm prone to "reinvent the wheel" in many situations because I didn't know the stdlibs already implemented the thing I needed. I also need to brush up on "const correctness", referencing, etc. And anything to help me better design classes, polymorphic interfaces, templates, operators, and software in general would also be very helpful. And I don't want to waste my time with beginners' books talking about variables being storage space for numbers. I'm not really doing this for any important project or commercial work... we're using C# for our projects. But I invested a lot of time (and money) in the past into my programming skills, which included C and C++. It's not an art I want to lose. And since I now have Visual Studio 2012 and C++11 is out and taking the programming world by storm I don't want to end up behind the times; I've got to keep up with the rest of the world. I'm looking for any online references/materials, articles, tutorials, books, videos and anything and everything that can be helpful to me in re-mastering C++ and learning about the new C++11 standard. Thanks, --ATC--

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Started by ATC October 18, 2012 10:07 PM

13 comments, last by mrbastard 11 years, 6 months ago

Saruman

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October 20, 2012 04:47 AM

this is an awesome book. PDF version's out there if you don't want to spend some money on this.

There is no free version unless you download it illegally which is stealing.

ATC

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October 20, 2012 05:31 AM

There is no free version unless you download it illegally which is stealing.

Tell me... "friend"... When did Saruman the Wise abandon reason for madness?!

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Lol, sorry, couldn't resist!

But true dat... true dat...

I have bee considering buying that book though because it looks great, like something I could really use.

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EddieV223

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October 20, 2012 07:51 PM

Not free but probably the best c++11 reference available.

http://www.amazon.co...&keywords=c 11

The first couple chapters are just showing you the big new features. The rest of the book continues showing how to use c++11 including the smaller new features. This is what you want I think.

And yes VS2012 is really good IDE for c++, far better than vs2010. However there are some other free IDE's that are just as good like, QTCreator and Eclipse, QTCreator being the easiest to setup, learn, and get running. Eclipse being the opposite harder to setup and learn but more features than QTCreator or VS2012, ( has a side effect of being hard to learn ) .

So I would suggest VS2012 for windows only projects and QTCreator for cross platform. Both support c++11 compilers (microsoft's and GNU). But neither compiler is completely c++11 standard compliant. It will will be some time until compiler support catches up. However both compilers support the "Big" new features such as memory classes, for each loop, nullptr, ect....

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iMalc

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October 21, 2012 08:29 AM

There's a lot of really good info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11

Lots of concise introductions and useful examples.

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mrbastard

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October 21, 2012 04:35 PM

From Scott Meyer's blog: the publisher of his Effective series, several Stroustrup books, and the Josuttis books has a 30-40% sale on c++ titles until 30th october.

Probably a good time to invest...

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