So it’s been a year! It’s been a year since I decided to take up the project of running a blog. A year during which I met an incredible number of incredible people, where I wrote like a madman, where I discovered a part of myself that could actually hold that virtual pen and carry […]
One way to write better code is… to read lots of great code! But where to find good code? In this week’s video, I detail how this technique works and several places easy to access to find good C++ to take inspiration of. And yes, you are going to see videos popping up on Fluent […]
We’ve seen how strong types helped clarifying function interfaces by being explicit about what input parameters the function expected. Now let’s examine how strong types help clarifying functions that return several outputs. We’ll start by describing the various ways to return several outputs from a function in C++, and then see how strong types offer an […]
Strong types are a way to put names over data in code in order to clarify your intentions, and the more I work on it the more I realize how deep a topic that is. So far we’ve seen the following subjects in our series on strong types: Strongly typed constructors Strong types for strong interfaces […]
Guest writer Tim Scott talks to us about how to make unit tests express the intentions of a piece of code. Tim is a software developer and tester passionate about software quality and automation. You can find him online on DeveloperAutomation.com, his blog about increasing quality and developer efficiency through automation, or on his Twitter or […]
Tonight is Halloween! The day of the dead, the day where people go around dressed up as ghosts, vampires and other zombies to celebrate and actually… have fun! Yeah, Halloween is that too. I’ve looked it up a bit and found out that there are some customs of Halloween that don’t really relate to the […]
One thing that dramatically improves the expressiveness of a piece of code is respecting its levels of abstractions. It sometimes involves massive refactorings, but in many cases it just comes down to choosing good names in your code. Picking a name that is consistent with the abstraction level of the surrounding code can make a […]
The Expressive C++17 coding challenge has come to an end after being open for three weeks, for submissions of the clearest code using C++17. It was a joint challenge between Bartek’s coding blog and Fluent C++, and its point was to learn collectively how to use C++17 to write clearer code. We’ll see the winner and […]
The point of this article is to show why we should think of function objects as functions and not as objects, and what practical consequences this implies for writing code. This perspective is somewhat not natural at first sight, and there is a lot of code out there that doesn’t seem to treat function objects like […]
If there’s one algorithm that lets you do all sorts of things, that must be std::accumulate. It is important to know how to use it, and also how not to use it. This post is part of the STL Learning Resource. Basic usage Numeric types The first thing to know about std::accumulate is its location: the […]
