Videos from C++ track on NDC Oslo

By Olve Maudal | Jun 9, 2014 07:04 PM | Tags: None

There was a very strong C++ track on NDC Oslo this year. Here is an overview of the videos recorded for the C++ track:

Day 1, June 4, 2014

• C++14, Nico Josuttis (video)
• Effective Modern C++, Scott Meyers (video)
• Error Handling in C++, Andrei Alexandrescu (video)
• Move, noexcept, and push_back(), Nico Josuttis (video)
• C++ Type Deduction and Why You Care, Scott Meyers (video)
• Generic and Generative Programming in C++, Andrei Alexandrescu (video)

Day 2, June 5, 2014

• C++ -- where are we headed?, Hubert Matthews (video)
• Three Cool Things about D, Andrei Alexandrescu (video)
• The C++ memory model, Mike Long (video, slides)
• C++ for small devices -- Isak Styf (video)
• Brief tour of Clang, Ismail Pazarbasi (video)
• Insecure coding in C and C++, Olve Maudal (video, slides)
• So you think you can int? (C++), Anders Knatten (video)

Enjoy!

NDC Oslo is an annual conference for programmers (~1600 delegates). 2 days of preconference courses/workshops, and then 9 tracks of technology talks for 3 days. The dates for 2015 are June 15-19. There will be a strong C++ track next year as well. Save the dates and stay tuned.

Lang.NEXT Keynote: What -- If Anything -- Have We Learned from C++? -- Bjarne Stroustrup

By Blog Staff | Jun 3, 2014 05:28 AM | Tags: None

Hot off the Channel 9 video press from last week's Lang.NEXT conference:

Lang.NEXT Keynote: What – if anything – have we learned from C++?

by Bjarne Stroustrup

What is the essence of C++? Why did it succeed despite its well-understood flaws? What lessons -- if any -- can be applied to newer languages?

Themes: Social and technical factors. Resource management. Generic programming. The importance of being inefficient. The importance of syntax. How (not) to specify a language. Standardization and compatibility. And no, I don't plan to condemn C++ -- it is still the best language around for a lot of things, and getting better. It just isn't anywhere near perfect (even of its kind) or the best at everything -- and was never claimed to be.

C++Now 2014 talk slides now available

By Blog Staff | May 22, 2014 09:06 AM | Tags: None

Many of the slides from last week's sold-out C++Now event are now posted on GitHub at the link below, and more are still being added.

If you missed C++Now this year, head over to check out the new CppCon coming this September...

C++Now 2014 Presentations

Tuesday, May 13

Library in a Week - c++ templating engine

Keynote: Axiomatic Programming: From Euclidean Deductions to C++ Templates and Beyond

C++14: Through the Looking Glass

Coroutines, Fibers, and Threads, Oh My

The Canonical Class

ConceptClang: Theoretical Advances with Full C++ Concepts

Generic Programming of Generic Spaces: Compile-Time Geometric Algebra with C++11

Test-Driven Development With Boost.Test and Turtle Mock, Part I/II

Removing undefined behavior from integer operations: the bounded::integer library

Value Semantics and Range Algorithms - Composability and Efficiency

Preparing the C++11 Library AFIO for Boost Peer Review

Wednesday, May 14

MPL11: A New Metaprogramming Library for C++11

The Optimization of a Boost.Asio-Based Networking Server

Undefined Behavior in C++; what is it, and why should I care

Mach7: The Design and Evolution of a Pattern Matching Library for C++

Practical Type Erasure: A boost::any Based Configuration Framework

A Tutorial Introduction to C++11/14 Part I/II

C++11 in Space Plasma Model Development

C++11 Library Design

Goals for Better Code: Implement Complete Types

Multiplatform C++

Octopus: A Policy-Driven Framework for CFD Simulations

Thursday, May 15

Keynote: Beware of C++

Interactive Metaprogramming Shell Based on Clang

libcppa: Type-safe Messaging Systems in C++

Unicode in C++

CppComponents: A Modern Portable C++11 Component System

UI. Aesthetics. C++

Accelerator Programming with C++ AMP

Designing XML API for Modern C++

Modern C++ as Concurrent Assembly

Understanding &&

Boost Library Incubator | Zip Archive

Friday, May 16

Iterators May Stay | LibreOffice File

Value Semantics: It ain't about the syntax!

Create Your Own Refactoring Tool with Clang

How to Design C++ Implementations of Complex Combinatorial Algorithms

Intro to Functional Programming in C++

Managing Object Lifetimes

0xBADC0DE

Expected — An Exception-friendly Error Monad

Lifetime and Usage of Global, Thread-local, and Static Data

Functional Data Structures in C++

Asynchronous Programming Using Boost.MetaStateMachine and the Upcoming Asynchronous Library

Ownership of Memory in C++

Saturday, May 17

The Future of Accelerator Programming in C++

Functional Reactive Programming - Cleanly Abstracted Interactivity

Disambiguation: The Black Technology

My Thoughts on Large Code Base Change Ripple Management in C++

Future of Boost: Boostache

Future of Boost: Community Management Team

Programming Conversations Lecture Series -- Alexander Stepanov

By Mantosh Kumar | Apr 22, 2014 09:53 AM | Tags: intermediate

Yet again the wonderful ongoing video series from Alexander Stepanov and Paramjit Oberoi (A9 Organization):

Programming Conversations

Programming conversations is intended as an interactive course on programming. We'll try to practice the Socratic method: eventually there will be very little lecturing, and most of the time will be spent in discussions and in writing code together. We plan to cover a wide variety of topics, starting with the nature of programming, and continuing, in no particular order, with benchmarking, algorithms, data structures, caches, instruction level parallelism, generic programming, variable sized types, and Platonic ideas.

Most of the concepts are explained in terms of C++11/STL/Boost.

Source code is available.

CS 251: Intermediate Software Design in C++ -- Doug Schmidt

By Blog Staff | Apr 17, 2014 05:22 AM | Tags: patterns intermediate basics

Doug Schmidt's C++-based software design course is available on YouTube.:

CS 251: Intermediate Software Design in C++

by Douglas Schmidt

This video playlist contains screencasts from a course I'm teaching on advanced C++ and object-oriented patterns/frameworks in the Spring of 2014 at Vanderbilt University. Please see http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/cs251/ for more information on this course.

Topics covered include:

• Overview of C++ (3 lectures)
• Overview of Subversion
• Overview of the STL (8 lectures)
• Overview of Patterns (2 lectures)
• A Case Study of "Gang-of-Four" Patterns (8 lectures)

About the instructor:

Douglas C. Schmidt is a Professor of Computer Science, Associate Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering program, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, all at Vanderbilt University. He has also been the Chief Technology Officer for the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was responsible for directing the technical vision and strategic R&D investments.

C++ developers will know of Doug particularly because of his widely-acclaimed ACE and related libraries.

Native Code Performance on Modern CPUs: A Changing Landscape -- Eric Brumer

By Blog Staff | Apr 7, 2014 02:55 AM | Tags: performance efficiency advanced

This C++ optimization talk is one of the highest-rated talks from last week's //build/ conference, and deservedly so.

Be prepared for deep content from a compiler optimizer architect, and quite a bit of subtle dry humor.

Native Code Performance on Modern CPUs: A Changing Landscape

by Eric Brumer
Compiler developer, Visual C++ team

Modern CPUs are fast. Really fast. New instructions, wider vector registers, and more powerful CPUs promise faster code. But reasoning about performance is not as it seems on the surface. This talk will dive deep into how advancements in the latest chips force some rethinking of native code performance, from the point of view of a compiler developer. The performance landscape is changing. Come see what that means.

Modern C++: What You Need to Know -- Herb Sutter

By Blog Staff | Apr 4, 2014 11:09 AM | Tags: performance intermediate efficiency basics

A recording of yesterday's //build/ talk by Herb Sutter is now available on Channel 9:

Modern C++: What You Need to Know

by Herb Sutter

This talk will give an update on recent progress and near-future directions for C++, both at Microsoft and across the industry. This is a great introduction to the current state of the language, including a glimpse into the future of general purpose, performance-intensive, power-friendly, powerful native programming.

From the advance description on Herb's blog:

I was asked to give a "foundational talk" about C++, and I decided that meant I should focus on addressing two questions that I get a lot these days:

• FAQ #1 (1-2 slides): When should I use C++ compared to another language -- on all platforms in general, and on Microsoft platforms in particular?
• FAQ #2 (lots of slides): What should I know about C++ if I’m a {Java|C#|JavaScript|Python|...} developer?

Even if you're a seasoned C++ developer, there are some nuggets and data points in the middle of the talk that I think you will find useful in your own work...

C++ in the 21st Century -- Arvid Norberg

By Blog Staff | Mar 31, 2014 10:17 PM | Tags: intermediate c++11 basics

A recently posted talk by BitTorrent's chief architect:

C++ in the 21st Century

by Arvid Norberg

From the announcement:

In this edition of Tech Talks: an overview of some C++ gems. I threw this talk together because my team was about to start a new project in C++11. Since it’s fairly new, I figured some of it might not be as well-known as it should. Fundamentally, I’m pretty excited about all the new possibilities in C++11. Even higher-level abstractions, at even lower cost than C++98.

In the video below, we go over for-loops, automatic type deduction, lambda functions and more.

C++: The Good Parts -- Jordan DeLong

By Blog Staff | Mar 11, 2014 01:06 PM | Tags: intermediate functional concepts c++14 c++11

A fun(ctional) talk from QCon:

C++: The Good Parts (slides)

by Jordan DeLong

The talk abstract:

Although C++ originated with the primary aim of adding Object Oriented features to C, it has evolved from the OO paradigm into a multi-paradigm language with strong support for various functional programming idioms.   C++11 adds several language features, most notably lambda expressions, that are overtly functional. But even prior to C++11, key parts of the standard library sported a design that has fundamentally more in common with functional programming than with OO.   This talk gives an overview of the past, current and near future "good parts" of C++'s functional side, through the colored lens of the speaker's biases.

Dive into C++11 (#4) — Smart pointers

By Vittorio Romeo | Jan 6, 2014 02:48 AM | Tags: intermediate

Hello once more isocpp users, I’m Vittorio Romeo, a computer science student, hobbyist game developer and C++ enthusiast.

I’ve uploaded the fourth episode of “Dive into C++11” on my YouTube channel.

After looking at C and C++'s memory and lifetime management in part 3, we'll take a brief look at C++11 smart pointers. We will learn what they are, what problem they solve, their advantages and their uses.

The intended audience for this tutorial/screencast are people who have some experience with C++ in general, and who watched the previous episodes. This episode may be very interesting for those with experience with C++ who want to learn more about variable lifetime and memory management.

I greatly appreciate comments and criticism, and ideas for future videos/tutorials.

Feel free to fork/analyze the source code at: https://github.com/SuperV1234/Tutorials

You can find the previous episodes here:

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Playlist

Thanks for watching!