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begin(c++): Resources for C++ Beginners

General

• 🌏 The official ISO C++ Get Started! page

Primers

• 🎥 Herb Sutter: (Not Your Father’s) C++
• 🎥 Beginning with C++ by Jens Weller

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Tools

throwtheswitch libraries: Unity, Cmock, Ceedling, etc http://www.throwtheswitch.org/

UNITY, Unit Testing for C (especially Embedded Software) http://www.throwtheswitch.org/unity/

CMock, Automated Mock & Stub Generation For C http://www.throwtheswitch.org/cmock/

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Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft

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Programming Books To Read

• Code Complete (2nd edition) by Steve McConnell
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie
• Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest & Stein
• Design Patterns by the Gang of Four
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• The Mythical Man Month

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❌ Code Complete (2nd edition) by Steve McConnell

✅ The Pragmatic Programmer

❌ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

❌ The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie

❌ Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest & Stein