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Notes, talk summaries, trip reports from Cpp Con 2017

Cpp Con 2017 Notes

Notes, talk summaries, trip reports from Cpp Con 2017

Intro

Links

• Github with the slides and other materials
• YouTube channel

Trip Reports

• Matt Godbolt’s CppCon 2017 Trip Report
• Ben Deane's CppCon 2017 Trip Report
• Charles L. Wilcox's Trip Report
• Oliver Smith's Cpp Con 2017 Report
• Eva "Bunny" Conti: A Beginner's Guide to CPPCon 2017
• Viktor Kirilov - Cpp Con 2017 Trip report

Talks

Here's a list of talks with a summary and they key points.

Bjarne Stroustrup "Learning and Teaching Modern C++"

CppCon 2017: Bjarne Stroustrup “Learning and Teaching Modern C++” - YouTube

• "We're all teachers" - this is a good talk, especially for all the people who teach other how to code: but not only bloggers, proffesors... but even for you when you advice/help your collegues from time to time.
• C++ was tought sometimes in a messy way, so we can do better.
• "if you write your own linked list (and use it in production code) you're cool". We cannot teach that way any more. It's just better to use STL.
• Simple example: Why range for loop is better than the old for loop (with i as the index).

Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”

CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”

PDF slides

• Matt's story: why he loves asm and how he started with Compiler Explorer.
• ASM 101, it's really not that hard to read some of the basic code. It might help you to understand your code better.
• Examples of how compilers might be smart. Math stuff mostly, but intresting to see how it's usually best to rely on the code generation.
• Tech stack behind Compiler Explorer

Other

Contributors

• (author) Bartek from bfilipek.com