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 to master, the slides are compiled to a PDF and uploaded to the download branch.

• Latest essentials course PDF.
• Latest full course PDF.

📹 Video recordings & events

Video recordings are available in the past events.

• 5th HEP C++ Course and Hands-on Training (2022 October - advanced)
• 4nd HEP C++ Course and Hands-on Training (2022 March - essentials)
• 3rd HEP C++ Course and Hands-on Training (2021 August)
• 2nd HEP C++ Course and Hands-on Training (2021 January)
• 1st HEP C++ Course and Hands-on Training (2020 October)

Check this page for announcements of upcoming training events (including those with this material).

🧰 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

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Abhishek L 🖋	Attila Krasznahorkay 🖋	Bernhard Manfred Gruber 🖋	David Chamont 🖋	Enrico Guiraud 🖋	Graeme A Stewart 🖋	Kilian Lieret 🚇
Sebastien Ponce 🖋	Stefan Roiser 🖋	Stephan Hageboeck 🖋	bcouturi 🖋

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!