Adding C++ auto-completion to Vim

I recently started using Vim as my main editor for programming. After the initial learning curve, I really started enjoying it, however, there’s some things I really miss from more traditional IDEs. Two of these are auto-completion and semantic “tips”. Auto-completion allows the developer to type only part of a function or attribute name, and

C++: the Named Parameter Idiom

Some times you will have a large C++ class with many parameters that need initializing. That can lead to some ugly constructor calls: auto popsim = PopulationSim(1000, 100000, 1000, 1000, 1500, 0.17, 0.05, 32, 3, 1, 7, 1); This makes the code very hard to maintain and debug, as there is no easy way to

Lecture summary: Programming Techniques for Scientific Simulations

During the autumn semester of 2017 I took the course “Programming Techniques for Scientific Simulations” as part of my BSc course in Computational Science and engineering at ETH Zürich. This is a summary of the course’s contents I wrote and used during the actual exam. Some things are missing, as it was an open-book exam