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
Preprocessor flags C++ preprocessor directives are useful for many things. One use is to set flags from the command line in order to compile the program in different ways. For instance, we could have a DEBUG flag which, if set, gives us some extra feedback useful for debugging: int main() { // Do some stuff…
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
We already know make, a powerful tool to automate all kinds of building sequences. But if you are using it to compile large C++ projects, you will quickly find that it’s tedious to maintain, and that you’re often repeating the same commands over and over again. This, of course, opens up the door to mistakes