I was requested during the beginning of this year to give a crash course on C++ for the developers with C background in our company. A while back, sankar gave an introduction to go language using http://tour.golang.org/ . Fascinated by the interface of gotour, I wanted to give the C to C++ tour using a similar interface but needed it in a quick time.
I discussed it with sankar and he came up with https://github.com/psankar/kuvalai/. He masters in pulling people to learning something new 😉 So I quickly learnt a bit of Go and contributed to kuvalai. It was taking a while to get it done, so we discussed and decided to hack up the go-tour. Made it to work with c++!!
Readme.txt – explains howto apply the go tour patches and get it running.
All the programs and the article is now available at https://github.com/chenthillrulz/cpp-tour 🙂 I wanted to put this up on webserver so that it can benefit others, esp. beginners to c++ and students. But since I don’t have any webspace at the moment, thats going to take time 😉
It was really challenging to construct simple, connected, practical examples for demonstrating the features. I wanted this tour to go simply like a movie. I did not know that I would enjoy so much doing this stuff 🙂 Got some happy, encouraging feedback from my peers after the training sessions. Perhaps I should thank my manager, Pradeep for persuading me to do this stuff. And my team, some of whom are still pushing me for the final session!!
Have conducted four sessions and the last one would cover advanced concepts such as traits, functors, template specialization, c++-11 features etc. The last session is taking time as I dont have practical experience on using traits, but still want to get some practical examples 🙂 Working on it!!
The descriptions in the doc. many require some polishing. It has about 42 sections at this point. And as always patches are welcome!!!
writing a blog after quite some time, refreshing 🙂
Set to Rise!! 