C++ course

This repository contains all material for the C++ Course taught at CERN from Sebastien Ponce (LHCb).

📎 Getting the latest PDF

For each commit, the slides are compiled as a PDF and uploaded as "artifact". The GitHub docs explain how you can download the PDF.

🧰 Development setup

Make sure to install the pre-commit hooks:

pip3 install pre-commit
# cd to repository
pre-commit install

Spell checking

Spell check is performed with the codespell pre-commit hook on every commit. To ignore words you can put them in the codespell.txt file. This file should list the supposedly misspelled words with one word per line and is case-sensitive.

C++ guidelines

• Prefer "east const" for new stuff.

Exercises guidelines

About instructions for mentors and students

The cheat sheet is only for mentors, with roadmap, solutions and key points to discuss.

Readmes are for students. These host the basic building instructions, give the name of the main program file, and possibly give a summary of the exercise goals and steps.

Inside the code, one gets more precise help on what should/could be done and also where (e.g. when the code is long and only one part needs to be worked on).

About solutions

Each exercice should provide a solution in the solution subdirectory. For any <name>.cpp exercise, the solution should be called solution/<name>.sol.cpp.

About building

For the time being, we maintain both a raw Makefile and a CMakeLists.txt.

The make command should work directly on any linux-like system. The make solution command should build the solution.

The cmake tool adds support for building on Windows. It is meant to be used in a build subdirectory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make solution