coding mental block, wants inspiration from beautiful coding [closed] - c++

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I'm having a coding mental block and wish to draw inspiration from other's coding. Where can I find beautiful coding (elegant, succinct, self-documenting) to refresh my mind. Github can be a place to start but I don't know authors to look for.

Perhaps not what you had in mind, but the book Beautiful Code is certainly worth consideration.

In addition to the other post, I'd add maybe checking out some other languages. You'll find beautiful concepts and new ways to program in Scheme, Haskell, Ocaml, Clojure, Erlang, etc... Some of those languages have features which you can apply to C++, and some of them make really nice examples in their implementation.

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Programming Problems and Concepts [closed]

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I have been studying programming, C++ specifically, for about 6 months and I got in a competition in my school. The teacher said that it will have some programming problems of different difficulties, although I have been working with problems like the ones found on Project Euler, I need different ones not just ones with math. Can anyone suggest any good problems, the more advanced the better. Or some books or articles I can read to improve my programming? I have googled this however answers are not as good as I expected and are really vague. I would really appreciate a solid and clear answer from experienced developers.
Check Herb Sutter's Exceptional C++ book, it has very good challenges. If you've already read it, there are sequels to that one as well, namely More Exceptional C++ and Exceptional C++ Style
The subreddit The Daily programmer post challenges, well, daily.
They are categorized by level, so you can test yourself and see what level are you and even compete with others.
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Again on build systems. Let's talk about complete correctness [closed]

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Recently I tried tup and I am VERY impressed by its correctness and speed, and the fact that monitoring the file system makes the tool really robust. It is also very easy to understand.
It never gets anything wrong, and when it does, it will show me. I would like to find a tool that is more mainstream and cross-platform friendly as long as it meets the requirements below.
My questions are:
Do you know any alternative build tool that has:
O(1) rebuilds.
Completely correct dependency tracking.
(Optional) Takes advantage of filesystem access.
EDIT: This is not a subjective "recommend me a tool" question, it is give me names of tools that meet these requirements because I would like to further research on how they behave for my use cases.

Writing custom script language [closed]

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I'm not sure if this is on the right forum but im putting it here.
I am interesting in writing my own script language that is easy to embed in any language. I want to do it for educational purposes, to see how it works and to learn more about how programming languages and script languages work and how they can work together. I am a college student learning c and c++. I am eager to learn as much as I can.
Could anybody tell me where I could find some resources or books to help me get started? What else I could do to learn the same things?
Look for compiler-compilers.
As a dinosaur, I'd say look into flex/bison to have the full featured options (but also developer responsibilities):
http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~beardj/FlexBisonC++.html
It will certainly address the educational purposes. See that a programming language consists of a 'scanner', that tokenizes characters into words, and a parser, that combines words to expressions, statements, and complete programs.

Good books for Interpreter and Compiler using C++? [closed]

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I'm planning to write a simple interpreter ( like TI-BASIC language for TI-89 ) or compiler ( C compiler ) using C++. I'm currently taking a course about programming languages, and learning the basic of BNF, EBNF. I wonder is it good enough to start on this project? In addition, could anyone know some good books about this area? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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The Dragon Book is a must read if you want to write a compiler.
Everyone I know rants and raves about Modern Compiler Construction in C, although the Java version usually gets more credit. However if you want a more C++ focused book you can't go wrong with Writing Compiler and Interpreters.

Any good C++ finance (preferably high frequency trading) books people can recommend? [closed]

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was in a waterstones branch today and saw a C++ book relating to derivatives. Just wondered if there are any specific books relating to high frequency trading, from the infrastructure side?
I'm especially interested in latency issues and generally how to make a c++ (or java) trading platform.
I've seen CLI mentioned a few times, although i'm not sure if this is something i should learn too??
The economics of publishing being what they are, I would be very surprised if there was a book published on such a narrow topic.
None that I've ever seen. If there were any, they would probably be terrible.
This is an area where the only way to learn how to do it is to get on to the battlefield.