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Microsoft Virtual Academy – C++: A General Purpose Language and Library

November 11, 2013 Nov 11, 2013 11/11/13
Eric Battalio
Interested in learning the basics of C++? Next Tuesday, November 19, Kate Gregory and James McNellis will be teaching a free introductory C++ course on Microsoft Virtual Academy, "C++: A General Purpose Language and Library." Kate is a C++ expert and long-time Microsoft Visual C++ MVP; James is a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. The...

Jumping Into C++: Calculating Unknowns

February 20, 2013 Feb 20, 2013 02/20/13
Eric Battalio
Last time, I wrote a C++ program to count words in text files. This time, write some code to calculate the motion of an object as an excuse to create a class, use function pointers and mess with some new containers. Thanks to my colleagues Ale Contenti and Andy Rich for providing the inspiration and original Simple Physics Calculator ...

After the Jump

January 24, 2013 Jan 24, 2013 01/24/13
Eric Battalio
This is a follow up to Jumping Into C++, a first-hand account of my experiences writing my first modern C++ application. It was a simple exercise that turned out to be not so simple and much more educational than I imagined thanks to the community.Thank you.And now, in no particular order, a few thoughts.About not using regular expressions. I ...

Jumping into C++

January 18, 2013 Jan 18, 2013 01/18/13
Eric Battalio
I was a professional developer for years, working initially with C in labs and an engineering firm before moving on to other languages and stints as an enterprise developer and consultant. Other languages and tool were more in demand for the projects I worked on so I gradually moved away from native development and lost touch with the C++ ...