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Microsoft Virtual Academy – C++: A General Purpose Language and Library

November 11, 2013 Nov 11, 2013 11/11/13
Eric Battalio
Interested in learning the basics of C++? Next Tuesday, November 19, Kate Gregory and James McNellis will be teaching a free introductory C++ course on Microsoft Virtual Academy, "C++: A General Purpose Language and Library." Kate is a C++ expert and long-time Microsoft Visual C++ MVP; James is a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. The...
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Jumping Into C++: Calculating Unknowns

February 20, 2013 Feb 20, 2013 02/20/13
Eric Battalio
Last time, I wrote a C++ program to count words in text files. This time, write some code to calculate the motion of an object as an excuse to create a class, use function pointers and mess with some new containers. Thanks to my colleagues Ale Contenti and Andy Rich for providing the inspiration and original Simple Physics Calculator ...
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After the Jump

January 24, 2013 Jan 24, 2013 01/24/13
Eric Battalio
This is a follow up to Jumping Into C++, a first-hand account of my experiences writing my first modern C++ application. It was a simple exercise that turned out to be not so simple and much more educational than I imagined thanks to the community.Thank you.And now, in no particular order, a few thoughts.About not using regular expressions. I ...
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Jumping into C++

January 18, 2013 Jan 18, 2013 01/18/13
Eric Battalio
I was a professional developer for years, working initially with C in labs and an engineering firm before moving on to other languages and stints as an enterprise developer and consultant. Other languages and tool were more in demand for the projects I worked on so I gradually moved away from native development and lost touch with the C++ ...
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