One-Day Scientific C++ Class

This was a full-day course given on March 15, 2011 at SciNet, covering using C++ for scientific programming, with a focus on those features that are useful for scientific software development. We took to C-to-C++ route, so familiarity with C, in particular with pointers, was a prerequisite.

Slides (PDF)

• Complete set of slides

Videos

1. Introduction
2. A basic refresher of C
3. Running example
4. The nice features of C++
5. Big C++: classes
6. Big C++: polymorphism
7. Big C++: Inheritance
8. Big C++: polymorphism in inheritance
9. Big C++: templates
10. Useful libraries

Code

• Hands-on example code