Hey all, In order to clean up the site infrastructure and address some security and spam issues, we’ve migrated the site to a new (faster) server, and essentially rebuilt the site from the ground up. Some of the plugins used to provide functionality (including the code syntax highlighter) weren’t compatible …
What is C++11? On August 12, 2011, the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) approved a new version of C++, called C++11. C++11 adds a whole new set of features to the C++ language! Use of these new features is entirely optional — but you will undoubtedly find some of them …
In the previous lessons on integers, we covered that C++ only guarantees that integer variables will have a minimum size — but they could be larger, depending on the target system. The short answer is that this goes back to C, when computers were slow and performance was of the …
Hey all, I updated the site software today, including the primary software and a bunch of plugins. So far everything seems to be working great but it’s very possible that something has gone awry somewhere. If you discover anything that seems wonky, please leave a message on this thread and …
On the heels of my previous post This is why we can’t have nice things, we’ve had a another incident with hackers/malicious software. According to my host, exploiters found a way to exploit the WebMin control panel and load the site up with malicious scripts. As a result, the site …
As you may have noticed, the site has been down for the last 5 days. The good news is that we’re back up (obviously), and things should stay that way now that they’re resolved. For those of you who are curious as to what happened, the forums have been under …
Always use parentheses to disambiguate the precedence of operators if there is any question or opportunity for confusion. The arithmetic operators all work like they do in normal mathematics. The modulus (%) operator returns the remainder from an integer division. The increment and decrement operators can be used to easily …
In addition to container classes and iterators, STL also provides a number of generic algorithms for working with the elements of the container classes. These allow you to do things like search, sort, insert, reorder, remove, and copy elements of the container class. Note that algorithms are implemented as functions …
An Iterator is an object that can traverse (iterate over) a container class without the user having to know how the container is implemented. With many classes (particularly lists and the associative classes), iterators are the primary way elements of these classes are accessed. An iterator is best visualized as …
By far the most commonly used functionality of the STL library are the STL container classes. If you need a quick refresher on container classes, check out lesson . The STL contains many different container classes that can be used in different situations. Generally speaking, the container classes fall into …
