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by guestgulkan
Printer Stream
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| A little while ago, someone made a post like this ostream printer; printer << "Some text" << endl; and wondered why it didn't print. So I thought I'd w... |
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Apr 19, 2010 at 11:00am
[8 replies] Last: Ah yes, good call on that one. (by moorecm)
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by kempofighter
Passing arrays to and from functions safely and securely
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| I wrote this article for the purpose of addressing common problems that are experienced by the programmers posting questions to the forums. I'll provide numerou... |
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Apr 9, 2010 at 1:10am
[13 replies] Last: I wanted to follow up with an example that demonstrates why the std::... (by kempofighter)
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by Blitz Coder
My way to make a game map in the console.
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| simple enough... This post most likely contains either an error or something somebody disagrees with. This is just my way to do this,If you have other (or be... |
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Apr 6, 2010 at 8:33pm
[5 replies] Last: I would create this helper: struct Coord { typedef short va... (by jsmith)
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by tajendra
Top 10 tips for code porting c/c++
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| Code portability basically refers to making source code able to compile on different platform without making any changes in source code. While coding its very... |
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Mar 25, 2010 at 1:58pm
[13 replies] Last: Surely there's more to porting than that. No mention of how to deal w... (by kbw)
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by tajendra
Inline function Advantages, Disadvantages, Performance and User Guidelines ? (1,2)
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| Inline function is the optimization technique used by the compilers. One can simply prepend inline keyword to function prototype to make a function inline. Inli... |
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Mar 20, 2010 at 8:47am
[29 replies] Last: But still if we talk about portable code we cant always rely on compi... (by imi)
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| So you want to program games? (1,2) |
| NOTE: This article does not start you on game programming! The Beginning: A lot of people who want to be video game developers seem to misunderstand what ... |
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Mar 18, 2010 at 7:56pm
[33 replies] Last: Apparently there are lots of jokes on noobs wanting to code a game ht... (by Bazzy)
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| Linked Lists |
| Article based on Linked Lists by computerquip revision 2: Linked lists are a basic concept in almost all programming languages, including interpreted and hig... |
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Mar 18, 2010 at 6:51pm
[6 replies] Last: Error: in C, a Node* isn't valid. That should be struct Node* .... (by chrisname)
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by Blitz Coder
User made database for learning c++?
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| This is not going to be an article to start but I was not sure were else to put it. I was thinking maybe it would be a helpful resource to others if there wa... |
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Mar 17, 2010 at 5:17pm
[4 replies] Last: I was just mentioning it because to me, it seems clear that Player::He... (by chrisname)
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by jsmith
When to pass parameters by value, reference, and pointer
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| Occasionally we get posts asking the differences between references and pointers, and in the context of function calls, when to pass parameters by reference, ... |
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Mar 15, 2010 at 6:53pm
[9 replies] Last: The difference between passing by const reference and by value is one ... (by jsmith)
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by jsmith
The clone pattern
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| In order to copy an object, you have to know at compile time the object's type, because the type is the "name" of the copy constructor: void copy_me( con... |
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Feb 27, 2010 at 7:21pm
[1 reply] : In order to copy an object, you have to know at compile time the obj... (by hamsterman)
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by mcleano
Member Initialization List over Assignment
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| To start with, this article is not actually my own words. It is a small section of the fantastic book "Efective C++: 55 Specific Ways tom Improve Your Programs... |
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Feb 27, 2010 at 2:03pm
[7 replies] Last: There is a difference in C++ between initialization and assignment ... (by jsmith)
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by unoriginal
An alternate to using getch()
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| OK, I have seen enough people suggesting the use of non-standard getch() or _getch(). Please, refrain from using the conio.h library as it is unreliable and ... |
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Feb 24, 2010 at 1:25pm
[9 replies] Last: Like I said, it's only unreadable to me because WinAPI is unreadable t... (by chrisname)
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by gcampton
Guide to Common Standards (1,2,3)
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| Currently under-construction. INTRODUCTION What is a set of standards and why am I reading this? The purpose of C++ standards is to define a C++ cod... |
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Feb 22, 2010 at 7:36pm
[45 replies] Last: I am yet to work in such in environment so I failed to see it being s... (by kempofighter)
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by blackcoder41
random tips and tricks that might be useful
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| 1. have you seen unindented codes from the forum? well if you're using code::blocks, there is a plugin called AStyle aka Source Code Formatter.. just goto plu... |
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Feb 16, 2010 at 8:28pm
[9 replies] Last: well if you're using code::blocks, there is a plugin called AStyle ak... (by chrisname)
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by gcampton
Enabling GodMode on Windows 7
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| "GodMode" if you can call it that, is an advanced Control panel available to the new Windows 7. Only it is also available on Windows Vista as well and was well ... |
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Feb 9, 2010 at 6:31am
[7 replies] Last: [quote=DrChill]how do all these easter eggs get found? People who ... (by gcampton)
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by jsmith
C++ type erasure
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| One of the significant advantages templates have over polymorphism is their ability to retain type. When you write a function frobnicate() that takes a base ... |
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Feb 3, 2010 at 2:34am
[15 replies] Last: Another reason to use type erasure, as a colleague put it: when the t... (by jsmith)
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by jsmith
Copy constructors, assignment operators, and exception safe assignment
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| What is a copy constructor? A copy constructor is a special constructor for a class/struct that is used to make a copy of an existing instance. The c... |
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Jan 27, 2010 at 7:44pm
[3 replies] Last: Sure. It just means that if you, the programmer create some type Fo... (by jsmith)
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by blackcoder41
c++ and java differences (1,2)
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| i've just learn the basics of c++ and figured out some differences of c++ and java. i'd like to post this for others to have a clue when learning a new language... |
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Jan 21, 2010 at 1:41am
[22 replies] Last: So do I. Not doing so is asking for memory leaks and such. (by chrisname)
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