Clean C++

Interfaces are one of the backbones of modern, object-oriented design. You need to use instances of different classes which share similarities in a uniform way? Use interfaces. You cannot easily ...

http://clean-cpp.org/interfaces-done-right/

Hangman is a little game often played by pupils during math lessons without the teacher knowing. The rules are quite simple: The game master thinks of a word or phrase. The players try to guess t...

http://clean-cpp.org/code_dojo_hangman/

Learning continuously is important in our rapidly changing business to avoid being outlived by the latest technology or style. I guess most of our readers come to clean-cpp.org because they are i...

http://clean-cpp.org/code-dojos/

Unit tests follow a simple pattern. First, you create a controlled environment for the function or class you want to test. Afterwards, you call a function or method of an object or create a new i...

http://clean-cpp.org/mock-objects/

In an earlier article I discussed the merits of unit tests. In essence, unit tests are pieces of code which assert that your production code works as intended. With a sufficient amount of unit te...

http://clean-cpp.org/test-driven-development/

Move Semantics are a game changer on how we return values and pass arguments in C++11. In this post we concern ourselves with the best way to implement an assignment (‘=‘) operator. If rvalue...

http://clean-cpp.org/assignment-operators-in-cpp11/

Most programmers have heard of unit tests. Many programmers regularly write unit tests, even though it should be all of them. Some even work with test-driven development, and this should be all o...

http://clean-cpp.org/unit-tests/

In May the FORs leave you alone we replaced manual loops with calls to algorithms. For this we did not use the algorithms provided by the standard library but used boost.Range instead. In this po...

http://clean-cpp.org/adaptors/

Consider the following function declaration: template void print_as_csv(std::ostream & stream, char delimiter, Items_To_Print && ... items_to_print); Though the decl...

http://clean-cpp.org/mandatory-template-arguments/

foobar is a term one often encounters when searching the web for tutorials on programming. What it is supposed to mean is not really clear; some people, though, claim that it stems from the Germa...

http://clean-cpp.org/foobar-names/