cppreference-doc VS modern-cpp-features

Rather than looking at good examples (which you should by all means do), add cppreference.com to you bookmarks and use it as your reference. By far the best C++ reference on the net. (from a C programmer who was thrown into C++ a decade ago -- slowly digesting C++20 now) Both StackOverflow.com and electronic.stackexchange.com are two additional QA sites that can help.

Sadly, not much. My method of learning is to get my hands dirty and waste a lot of time doing things wrong before I do them right. The only resource (outside of Google and StackOverflow) that I always had open was https://en.cppreference.com

In general, https://en.cppreference.com is your friend.

> As a C++ language reference I highly recommend https://en.cppreference.com

I'd be careful about such re-formulations of the Standard. When I was adding printf format checking to the D compiler, I discovered there were subtle discrepancies in the description of exactly how printf behaves. I went back to using the Standard.

Modern C++ code now looks very different to even C++11 code which is considered to be the start of modern C++.

"A Tour of C++" which has already been recommended is probably a good start to get back in the game. I think there was a new version coming out, but not sure what the current status about this is.

[https://en.cppreference.com](cppreference.com) is a good resource for me. It has documentation regarding the new standards as well and up to C++20 the examples are mostly complete, at least for the relevant things.

I can also recommend watching the "Back to Basics" talks on the CppCon youtube channel and once you are more familiar also the regular talks. They are great resources about practical topics.

Jason Turner's C++ Weekly videos are also a great resource. They are usually 10-15 minutes long videos that give you a good start to think about. Great way to learn something new every week.

At Google, at least, the style guide says to use snake case for variable names in C++ (but camel case for classes). As far as I can tell, this is also the convention in the C++ standard library.

Lets say that there's a file at https://en.cppreference.com/ called preferences.c. The command to download it would be wget https://en.cppreference.com/preferences.c

I would start with a direction of where to apply C++. Updating legacy code, working on embedded systems, creating financial application and creating high performant games are a few common option. Also sites like cppreference and Compiler Explorer/Godbolt are your friends in learning. CPlusPlus.com might help with legacy support as it stops with C++11.

Keep in mind that most YouTube C++ tutorials are garbage. Use www.learncpp.com instead as a tutorial, and https://en.cppreference.com as a language reference. Once you familiarize yourself with the language, you can learn the best practices using the C++ Core Guidelines.

The important thing to remember is that a concept exist and roughly what it's called, so you can look it up when you need to. You don't need to keep all the details in your head, that's what we have en.cppreference.com for.

Just go through this https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features and you should be fine.

If you also like thorough explanations and graphs, there's https://hackingcpp.com/ that could answer many questions you might have.

By the way, just in case, bookmark this online C++ reference https://eel.is/c++draft/ for diving in deep waters.

Good luck!

I'm a little 10 years out from writing C++ professionally and I found this cheat sheet[0] useful. Basically if you have an inkling of the concept you're looking for, just search on that cheat sheet to find the relevant new C++ thing. Specifically for me, we used Boost for smart pointers which are now part of the stdlib, and threads are now part of the stdlib as well.

[0] https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features

A more productive way to go about it would be to ask "What are the features in each version of C++ past C++11 that I should care about the most?" instead. In that case you could take a look at things like https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features and https://github.com/mortennobel/cpp-cheatsheet, see what appeals to you, ignore what does not.

Looks like there's a version history here

As someone suggested cppcon and c++ talks, also I would reccomend reading this: https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features and all things in the papers section in this: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

I've already done a bit of research which has led me to the The Definitive C++ Book Guide & List. From that, I've decided to go over The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) to learn C++11 and then this GitHub repo to learn the remaining C++14/17/20 features.

clickable:

"Welcome back to C++ - Modern C++" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/welcome-back-to-cp...

"21 New Features of Modern C++ to Use in Your Project" http://www.vishalchovatiya.com/21-new-features-of-modern-cpp...

"What is modern C++"? https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp_questions/comments/tgs6ir/what_...

"C++ is the next C++" https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p26...

"modern c++ features" https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features

C++ 23 to introduce module support "https://www.infoworld.com/article/3662808/c-plus-plus-23-to-..."

"C++ 2023" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B23