Department of Engineering

C++

C++ is the object-oriented development of C with classes, member functions, operator overloading, constructors etc. It's the first language taught to undergraduates at CUED.

Starting: Local teaching - General references - Tutorials - Topics Advanced: General - Topics Local resources: General - Topics - Compilers and libraries - IDEs - FAQ

Starting C++

Local teaching

• 1A C++ Computing
• 1B C++ Computing
• Tutorial Guide to C++ Programming (for local 1A/1B students)
• CUED's C++ data book
• Frequently asked C++ questions (CUED)
• A handout on Debugging
• Basic optimising and profiling (CUED)
• More C++ (updated on July 5th, 2001) (PDF file, notes).

General Reference

• C and C++ Style Guides
• The list of Frequently Asked Questions is invaluable, but isn't designed for complete beginners.
• C++ Glossary

Tutorials

• The cplusplus.com tutorial
• FunctionX C++ tutorials
• Thinking in C++ (by Bruce Eckel - draft of a book)
• go4expert's C++ forum
• C++: A Dialog - a book by Steve Heller
• You Can Do It: A Beginner's Introduction to Computer Programming by Francis Glassborow
• C++ Programming for Scientists (Pozo and Remington)

Special topics

• C++ Tutorials from Deitel
• cplusplus.com's iostream library reference
• An Introduction to the Standard Template Library (STL) (Carlos Moreno)
• yolinux STL tutorial

Advanced WWW resources

General

• Dinkum Compleat Libraries (Standard C++ library reference, plus some overview articles)
• The Lysator list of C-related docs
• The C++ Source (Journal)
• C/C++ Reference
• C++ resources network
• Cetus C++ links
• Brighton Univ's C++ resources
• C++ Internet site list (Robert Davies)
• Scott Meyers' C++ articles
• C++ in the Real World: Advice from the Trenches
• Association of C & C++ Users (see their book reviews, etc.)
• Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage (papers, glossary and FAQs).
• Guru of the Week

Maths 

• Techniques for Scientific C++ (Todd Veldhuizen)
• Available C++ Libraries FAQ
• Template Numerical Toolkit
• TooN: Tom's object oriented Numerics library
• Graph Template Library
• Blitz++ (library for scientific computing)
• LEDA (combinatorics)
• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
• Object-Oriented Numerics Page (libraries, articles, etc).
• Netlib's C++ material
• Scientific Computing: C++ versus Fortran

Pointers

• Pointers (by Todd Gibson)
• A Beginner's Guide to Pointers (by Andrew Peace)
• Smart Pointers - What, Why, Which? (by Yonat Sharon)

Programming

• Casting in C++
• Function Pointer Tutorials
• How to interpret complex C/C++ declarations (by Vikram A Punathambekar)
• C++ Portable Components
• C++ idioms
• SNIPPETS
• Optimizing C++ - a book by Steve Heller
• C++ in Action - a book by Bartosz Milewski
• the busy comp.lang.c++ (or see the Google group) and comp.lang.c++.moderated (or see the Google group) newsgroups.

Other Topics

• CERT C++ Secure Coding Standard
• MLC++ (Machine Learning Library)
• Boost.org - free, peer-reviewed, C++ libraries
• Technical Report on C++ Performance (ISO/IEC)
• the typename keyword

Local Information

General

• C++ for C programmers
• A look at some of the newer C++ features
• C++ Notes for intermediate students (especially CUED IIA students)
• C++ and the Standard Library
• C++ course (a crash course for CUED 3rd years and upward)
• C++ objects, containers, complex numbers and maps

Special topics

Types

• C++ and simple type conversion
• Casting in C++ (intermediate level)
• C++ type anomalies and special cases (intermediate level)

Variables

• Passing values in C++ (the use of const)
• C++ and static
• C++ and global variables
• C++ and enumeration

Classes

• C++ - a public/private issue
• C++: Visibility and Look-up (intermediate level)
• C++ Inheritance, Protection and Friends (intermediate level)
• C++ and Building Classes (a vector arithmetic example)
• C++ and Building Classes (a limited-range integer example)

Misc

• Bridge: A C++ programming Exercise (using vectors)
• C++ "for" loop teaching aid
• C++ "function" teaching aid
• C++ I/O
• sizeof
• Complex numbers
• Templates
• C++ Templates and Friends (intermediate level)
• Namespaces
• C++ Smart Pointers (intermediate level)
• bind1st and bind2nd (intermediate level)
• mem_fun (intermediate level)
• C++ vector memory and 2D vectors
• C++ constructors
• Trees, Graphs and C++
• C++: Nasty Tricks
• Mixing Languages on linux
• C++ and the main function

Compilers and libraries

We have various IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) providing easy access to the compiler (which is g++ on the linux machines). Geany is used in the 1st year course. If you want to work away from CUED see

• Remote 1AC++ Computing
• Installing C++ compilers
• Installing C++ graphics libraries
• Remote access to the Engineering Department machines

• g++ documentation
• g++ standard library documentation

Integrated Development Environments

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) offers integrated editing, compiling, debugging and project-management facilities. On the teaching system we currently have Anjuta (version 1) , Geany , NetBeans (with a C++ add-on), Eclipse and codeblocks

Anjuta 1. Click to zoom in

Geany. Click to zoom in

Netbeans. Click to zoom in

Eclipse. Click to zoom in

Codeblocks. Click to zoom in

FAQ

• CUED C++ Frequently Asked Questions

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Information provided by Tim Love (tpl)

Last updated: June 2011