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CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style"
Herb Sutter revisits basic C++ questions in light of C++11 and C++14: how to declare and initialize variables, pass values to functions, write loops, and use smart pointers. It covers auto, rvalue references, range-for, uniform initialization, lambdas, unique_ptr and shared_ptr.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people list it among the go-to talks for learning or refreshing modern C++ style, and cite it for Sutter's guidance on function parameter passing.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- CppCon
- Topic
- modern c++ style
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Herb Sutter, one of the most prolific C++ experts out there, recently gave a talk on Modern C++ [1]. In the beginning of his talk, he states that every C++ developer should read a "Tour of C++" [2] by Bjarne Stroustrup, the original designer of …
jerv on Hacker News · 2014-12
In Ask HN: How to refresh on modern features of C++?- Tour of C++ ( [LINK] ) - Principles and Practice Using C++ ( [LINK] ) - From Mathematics to Generic Programming ( [LINK] ) - The Scott Meyers books Some of the Bjarne Stroustrup videos, "Learning and Teaching Modern C++" - [LINK] Some of …
pjmlp on Hacker News · 2018-03
In Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++?
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