Course Material

Workshop outline

• Introduction
  • Workshop goals
  • History of C++
  • A few words about C
  • Is C++ the best language?
• A quick comparison with Python
  • Similarities
  • Differences
    • Syntactic differences
    • Implementation
    • Type system
• C++ theory
  • A “Hello, World!” program
    • Setting up environment on the Teach cluster
    • Notes about the code
      • About printing
      • 📖 Extra information
      • About portability
  • Variables
    • Nature of variables in Python and C++
    • Scoping rules
  • Types
    • Type casting
  • const and constexpr
  • Functions
    • The main() function
    • Templates
      • 📖 Extra information
  • Standard containers
    • std::vector
    • Other containers
  • References (and pointers)
    • Passing by reference in Python 🐍
    • About pointers
  • Loops
• C++ practice
  • Monotonicity
  • Luhn algorithm
• More Standard Library
  • Word frequencies
    • Streams
    • Alternative implementations
  • Iris data set
    • Tips
• Next steps