C++ stuff

This is my mini-C++ website.

Books

Some of my favourite books

Links

Various C++ links.

Tutorials

A bunch of short articles I've written. The article on polymorphism is done, the others are incomplete.

• Stupid tricks: just some random thoughts. Topics include adding member-templates to functors like plus,multiplies,divides, and using recursive templates to implement multi-dimensional arrays.
• Linked list HOWTO A discussion on the topic of implementing a linked list
• The standard library An introduction to the standard C++ library. This tutorial is recommended for beginners.
• Random numbers Most textbooks give some explanation of how to generate random numbers. Unfortunately, several of the idioms that are used in textbooks are either flawed or just plain wrong. This article covers some examples and discusses potential pitfalls. This article is suitable for beginners, but also recommended for intermediate programmers (who have probably been taught incorrectly)
• Polymorphism: a brief introduction to polymorphism. In my experience, many students and even instructors don't understand polymorphism well. This is for those who've seen inheritence and new but are still trying to grasp polymorphism.
• Arrays are not pointers A discussion on arrays, multi-dimensional arrays, and the differences between arrays and pointers.
• Templates: some solutions to some problems I used to find very annoying.
• Registration and the prototype pattern: a powerful technique to decouple derived classes from their base.
• Envelopes and Letters: a technique used to bring runtime polymorphism to objects in automatic storage.
• Envelopes, Letters, and Prototypes a This example combines envelopes and letters with the prototype pattern.