The Blind Guru

A C++ sample collection

I am one of those people that best learns from looking at examples. No matter if I am trying to learn a programming pattern/idiom, or a completely new library or framework. Documentation is good (if it is good!) for diving into the details, but to get me started, I always want to look at a self contained example so that I can get a picture of the thing in my head.

So I was very excited when a few days ago, CppSamples was announced on the ISO C++ Blog.

While it is a very young site, it already contains some very useful gems. It is maintained over at GitHub, so it is also rather easy to suggest new additions, or improve the existing examples by submitting a pull request.

Give it a try, it is really quite nice. In my book, the best resource I have found so far in 2015.

BTW, Debian has a standard location for finding examples provided by a package. It is /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/. I consider that very useful.

Github Activity

mlang opened a pull request in tulip-lang/tulip

mlang opened a pull request in tulip-lang/tulip
Jan 25, 2018

As a disabled person, I feel "disabled" is mightily displaced in this list. #13

+1 -1
mlang created a branch put-an-end-to-patronizing at mlang/tulip

mlang created a branch put-an-end-to-patronizing at mlang/tulip
Jan 25, 2018
mlang forked mlang/tulip from tulip-lang/tulip

mlang forked mlang/tulip from tulip-lang/tulip
Jan 25, 2018
mlang commented on pull request tomsmeding/MarioLANG#3

mlang commented on pull request tomsmeding/MarioLANG#3
Jan 18, 2018

It seems you're using spaces as indentation while the rest of the file is using tabs. Could you fix that? :) done. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕
mlang pushed to direction-reversal-slowdown in mlang/MarioLANG
mlang pushed to direction-reversal-slowdown in mlang/MarioLANG
7266f56

Fix mario slowing down when he changes direction
Jan 18, 2018
mlang pushed to master in mlang/mario
mlang pushed to master in mlang/mario
4604f58

installation is simpler now
Jan 16, 2018
mlang opened a pull request in tomsmeding/MarioLANG

mlang opened a pull request in tomsmeding/MarioLANG
Jan 16, 2018

Fix mario slowing down when he changes direction #3

A break was missing in a switch block.

+1 -0
mlang created a branch direction-reversal-slowdown at mlang/MarioLANG

mlang created a branch direction-reversal-slowdown at mlang/MarioLANG
Jan 16, 2018
mlang forked mlang/MarioLANG from tomsmeding/MarioLANG

mlang forked mlang/MarioLANG from tomsmeding/MarioLANG
Jan 16, 2018
mlang pushed to master in mlang/mario
mlang pushed to master in mlang/mario
5e3d3ec

add an info.rkt to hopefully fix checksum error with pkgs.racket-lang…
Jan 15, 2018