Episode 13: C++

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News

• Visualizing Code to fail faster
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/visualizing-code-to-fail-faster.html
• What will happen to the Used game market with next-gen consoles
• http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/03/op-ed-blocking-used-games-unlikely-to-kill-the-console-game-market.ars
• Prince of Persia source code found after 23 years, will be open sourced
• http://www.geek.com/articles/games/prince-of-persia-creator-finds-lost-source-code-23-years-later-20120329/

Tool of the Biweek

• Jason:  SFXR http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
• Patrick: DC Universe Online http://www.dcuniverseonline.com/

C++

History

• Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
• Began as “C With Classes”
• C++-0X

Features

• Virtual functions
• operator overloading
• multiple inheritance
• templates
• exception handling

Strengths

• Very fast
• Object-Oriented paradigm supports huge programs

Weaknesses

• No reflection
• Memory Corruption
• Weak Cross Platform Concurrency

Tools

• Codeblocks
• Eclipse CDT
• Boost

Uses

• Game Programming
• Embedded Computers
• Web Browsers