One-Day Scientific C++ Class

Goal

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.

A second iteration covering the same content, was given on April 23, 2012.

Slides (PDF)

1. Introduction: programming strategies and brief history of C++
2. A basic review 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++: Generic programming with templates
10. Useful libraries

Or:

• Complete set of slides (updated on Apr 26, 2012)

Videos

1. Introduction: programming strategies and brief history of C++
2. A basic review 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++: Generic programming with templates
10. Useful libraries

Code

• Hands-on example code