Andrey Karpov

May 16 2012

Collection of interesting resources on C/C++ programming

• C++ as large as life
• Interesting blogs
• Floating-point arithmetic
• Various programming tricks
• Character encoding and control characters
• Coding standards
• Groups
• Miscellaneous

I constantly study the Web regarding new articles on C/C++/C++11 programming. If I find them interesting, I post links to them in twitter @Code_Analysis, on Reddit /r/Viva64 and like them on StumbleUpon. If you are present on one of these websites, I invite you to follow me. You will find a lot of interesting articles in time. To get you interested, I decided to create a small selection of materials.

First of all, of course, I would like to recommend you our viva64.com website. There you can find a lot of articles and blog posts regarding development of quality code. For example, I invite you to see 28 lessons on developing 64-bit software in C/C++.

For the purpose of convenience I have arranged the links into several subjects. Enjoy reading.

Note. Usually we wrap links to manage their integrity. I wrote about this brave fight against chaos in the article "d'Artagnan and Internet, or working on the problem of bad links". Unfortunately, I will give direct links this time. These materials will significantly enlarge the link base, which means that we will have much work to do in case the articles are moved.

C++ as large as life

• A large list of famous projects developed in C/C++: C++ Applications. How can anyone say that C++ is becoming extinct after that?
• Computer Language Benchmarks Game. As usual, Fortran, C and C++ languages are the leaders regarding performance. And it will hardly change in the nearest future. If you are developing resource-intensive software, the C++ language will be most probably the best choice.
• Why is C++ still a very popular language in quantitative finance?
• Why do they program in C++?
• 9 reasons to start using C++11

Interesting blogs

• Steve Hanov's Blog
• Visual C++ Team Blog
• The Old New Thing

Floating-point arithmetic

• Tricks With the Floating-Point Format
• Stupid Float Tricks
• Comparing Floating Point Numbers, 2012 Edition

Various programming tricks

• Bit Twiddling Hacks
• Table-driven methods with no relocations
• Reduce Compilation Dependencies in Large Scale C++ Projects: Factory Pattern
• Catching Integer Overflows in C. Article N1
• Cool C Tricks

Character encoding and control characters

• Unicode, UTF-8 and all that: An intentionally incomplete character set introduction for hasty C programmers
• Control character
• The UTF-8 Everywhere manifesto

Coding standards

• Google C++ Style Guide
• CERT. C Secure Coding Standard

Groups

• Reddit: Cpp, C_Programming.
• Facebook: C++ Programming, For the love of C++, C Programming, Visual C++ Developer, C Plus Plus (C++)
• LinkedIN: C++ Community Group, C++ Developers Forum, C++ Developers Group, C++ Professionals

Miscellaneous

• What's Wrong With GNU make?
• Why strncpy is no safer than strcpy: strncpy? just say no
• A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++. Part N1, N2, N3
• Windows Data Alignment on IPF, x86, and x64
• Translate C declaration
• Arbitrary Data Sizes with C

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