A C++ Software Engineer's Humble Point Of View

Pietro Luigi Carotenuto, PhD C++ Software Engineer

Pietro L. Carotenuto, Ph.D.

A C++ Software Engineer’s (humble) point of view

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Best books to learn C++20? My list & reviews

March 28, 2022 No Comments

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I would like to share with you my personal wish list of the books / e-books that I’m considering the best ones to learn C++20. Which are the best books to learn C++20? I asked different people and on social media (e.g., on this LinkedIn group for C++ professionals and Twitter) this question: if you should suggest a book to learn the C++ programming language – and in particular C++20 – which books would you suggest to read? There were many…

One Pizza – Problem description & score

February 19, 2022 No Comments

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The “One pizza” problem is the practice problem proposed by Google for the Hash Code challenge 2022. Check the problem description and score.

Why a class must not inherit from a STL container?

November 14, 2021 C++

A class must not inherit from a STL container to replicate its behavior and add some few new functionalities. Let’s see why…

Git – Unstaged changes after a revert – CRLF/LF issue

September 6, 2021 Version Control Systems

The problem: unexpected unstaged changes after a revert Recently, when using the GIT command-line to switch to an existing user branch, the checkout failed due to some local changes in…

C++ Boost library v1.75.0 – how to build (x86) and install it – the basic approach

April 17, 2021 C++

C++ Boost Library: basic step to build and install 32 bit version. In this tutorial, boost v1.75.0 is installed and tested.

Quick C++ std::vector initialization

March 29, 2021 C++

How many ways exist to initialize a std::vector in C++? Let’s see some examples…

Finding min and max values in a C++ standard container

March 24, 2021 C++

In C++, finding the elements having the lowest and highest value in a standard container is easy with min_element() and max_element(). Let’s see some examples.

“Even More Pizza” – My algorithm source code (C++)

February 21, 2021 Algorithms

This post contains my C++ source code for the “Even More Pizza” practice problem released for the Google Hash Code, 2021. This code can be reused to solve the Online…

Even more pizza: Hash Code practice problem (2021)

February 7, 2021 Algorithms

“Even more pizza” is the new practice problem proposed for the Hash code 2021 challenge. The goal is to help an imaginary pizzeria to choose the pizzas to deliver to…

How-to install Raspberry PI Desktop (Raspbian) on a VirtualBox VM

August 28, 2020 Embedded Systems, Raspberry PI

Installing Raspberry PI Desktop (Raspbian) on a Virtualbox VM is very easy and it allows to run some basic scripts on an emulated Raspberry PI board.

Calculate all combinations of K items selected from a set of size N

July 20, 2020 Algorithms

Calculate all combinations of k items taken from a set of n elements is not difficult with the proposed recursive and iterative methods.

#pragma pack(push,n) – #pragma pack (pop)

July 11, 2020 C++

The directive #pragma pack is used to change the current packing alignment value on the internal compiler stack and how data is stored inside a structure.

Size of enum type

April 20, 2020 C++

Size of the enum type: can you answer to this C++ quiz?

Repetition makes us feel secure…

April 19, 2020 Random Thoughts & Quotes

Repeating makes us feel secure… Quote by Robert Hass

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