WatchAndLearn.md

Watch and Learn

This is a collection of presentations about programming, mostly C++

Most eye-opening

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
C++ And Beyond 2012	Herb Sutter	You don't know _____ and _______	https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C-and-Beyond-2012-Herb-Sutter-You-dont-know-blank-and-blank https://web.archive.org/web/20170119232617/https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C-and-Beyond-2012-Herb-Sutter-You-dont-know-blank-and-blank	C++11 fundamentally changes the meaning of two keywords.
Bloomberg	Howard Hinnant	Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Move Semantics	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLinb2fgkHk
Going Native 2013	Sean Parent	C++ Seasoning	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2tWOdzgXHA	a.k.a. "This is obviously a rotate()"
CppCon 2014	Herb Sutter	Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnqTKD8uD64
C++Now 2019	Conor Hoekstra	Algorithm Intuition	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gV1SNm3WA

Algorithms

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2015	Michael VanLoon	STL Algorithms in Action	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eidEEmGLQcU
CppCon 2016	Marshall Clow	STL Algorithms - why you should use them, and how to write your own	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Jl1fk3MkQ
CppCon 2017	Nicholas Ormrod	Fantastic Algorithms and Where To Find Them	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-nB2wjVcI
CppCon 2018	Jonathan Boccara	105 STL Algorithms in Less Than an Hour	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2olsGf6JIkU	"It's not just for_each"
CppCon 2019	Conor Hoekstra	Algorithm Intuition (part 1 of 2)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEnO6SvAMo
CppCon 2019	Conor Hoekstra	Algorithm Intuition (part 2 of 2)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEvYmb3eKsw

Spreading the word

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
pdc10	Herb Sutter	Lambdas, Lambdas Everywhere	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcgRY7sOA58
CppCon 2014	Herb Sutter	Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmTagWcqoE
CppCon 2015	Herb Sutter	Writing Good C++14... By Default	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEx5DNLWGgA	GSL & stuff

Back to Basics

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2019	Arthur O'Dwyer	Back to Basics: Type Erasure	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUCHifyT24
CppCon 2019	Arthur O'Dwyer	Back to Basics: Smart Pointers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGDLkt-jBJ4
CppCon 2019	Arthur O'Dwyer	Back to Basics: Lambdas from Scratch	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jCOwajNch0

The bigger picture

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2017	Titus Winters	C++ as a `Live at Head' Language	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tISy7EJQPzI

Testing, testing, 1,2,3

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2015	T. Winters & H. Wright	All Your Tests are Terrible...	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5senBJUkPc
Meeting C++ 2023	Phil Nash	Rewiring your brain with test driven thinking in C++	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx-1Wtvhvgw

Library design

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2017	Matt Kulukundis	Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-friendly Hash Table, Step by Step	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4
C++Now 2018	Malte Skarupke	You Can Do Better than std::unordered_map: New Improvements to Hash Table Performance	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2fKMP47slQ
CppCon 2022	Eduardo Madrid, Scott Bruce	Implementing Understandable World Class Hash Tables in C++	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnbytvHCjM
CppNow 2022	Eduardo Madrid	Rehashing Hash Tables And Associative Containers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4VxpvFX9YY

Possibly the most awesome C++ library, ever

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2019	Hana Dusíková	Compile-time Regular Expressions	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM3W36COnE4

Using the C++ compiler to parse a regular expression, and create a Finite State Machine which checks if the regex matches a string.

Standard library design

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2019	Marshall Clow	std::midpoint - How hard could it be?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBtAGxBh-XI	As it turns out, quite hard.

Implementing the deceptively simple "midpoint" is quite tricky - which is why std::midpoint became part of the Standard C++ Library in C++20

Optimizations

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
code::dive conference 2015	Andrei Alexandrescu	Writing Fast Code I	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrfYLlR8X8k	generic optimization tips
code::dive conference 2015	Andrei Alexandrescu	Writing Fast Code II	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tvbz8CSI8M	fun part from 6:45
CppCon 2017	Carl Cook	"When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++"	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1Tta7purM	(some of the perversions we make in the name of performance)
	Admiral Grace Hopper	What is a nanosecond ?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJBvtXq4hQA
ADC22	Dave Rowland	Optimising a Real-Time Audio Processing Library	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpymA7NLNDs
C++Online 2024	Dave Rowland	Optimising a High Performance Audio C++ Library: Lessons Learned	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_cXuL_L0Gg

Low latency

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
MUC++	Timur Doumler	What is Low Latency C++?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrrG2TYF1dM
Meeting C++ 2022	David Gross	Trading at light speed: designing low latency systems in C++	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uAW5FQtcvE

Using the standard

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2016	Howard Hinnant	A <chrono> tutorial"	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P32hvk8b13M
	Stephan T Lavavej	rand() considered harmful	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ez-KqDTVXg	"Say you have a problem, so you use floating point. Now you have 2.000001 problems"
CppCon 2016	Walter E. Brown	What C++ Programmers Need to Know about Header <random>"	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DPkyvkMkk8
CppCon 2016	Cheinan Marks	I Just Wanted a Random Integer!	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_QO1nm7uJs

"Advanced" C++

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2014	Walter E. Brown	Modern Template Metaprogramming: A Compendium, Part I	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am2is2QCvxY
CppCon 2014	Walter E. Brown	Modern Template Metaprogramming: A Compendium, Part II	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0FliKwcwXE
CppCon 2015	Marshall Clow	Type Traits - what are they and why should I use them?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvbTP_k_Df4
CppCon 2016	Alisdair Meredith	C++17 in Breadth (part 1 of 2)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22jIHfvelZk
CppCon 2016	Alisdair Meredith	C++17 in Breadth (part 2 of 2)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rIixnNJM4k
CppCon 2017	Alisdair Meredith	Recreational C++	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovxNM865WaU	Re-implementing the C++ Standard Library for fun and profit(?)
CppCon 2017	Stephen Dewhurst	Modern C++ Interfaces...	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdWqa68LmA

C++20 Concepts

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2018	Arthur O'Dwyer	Concepts As She Is Spoke	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXn02MPkn8Y
CppCon 2019	Saar Raz	How to Implement Your First Compiler Feature: The Story of Concepts in Clang	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1o4rc9P1FQ	Saar Raz implemented Concepts for Clang and lived to tell the tale

Ranges (C++20)

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2015	Eric Niebler	Ranges for the Standard Library	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFUXNMfaciE
CppCon 2019	Jeff Garland	From STL to Ranges: Using Ranges Effectively	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ290qlAbbw
CppCon 2019	Tristan Brindle	An Overview of Standard Ranges	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYLgG7Q5Zws
CppCon 2020	C++20 Ranges in Practice	Tristan Brindle	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_E-VLyUnzc

"Not Yet C++"

No-holds-barred experiments with the language.

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2019	Herb Sutter	De-fragmenting C++: Making Exceptions and RTTI More Affordable and Usable	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYP83yNAWk	Addressing C++s' biggest pain point: exceptions
CppCon 2020	Herb Sutter	Empirically Measuring, & Reducing, C++'s Accidental Complexity	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lurOCdaj0Y	Imagining a new way of passing parameters

STL

Stephan T Lavavej is the maintainer of the Microsoft C++ compiler's Standard C++ Library (provided by Dinkumware), and a member of the C++ standardization committee.

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
2009	Stephan T Lavavej	Everything you ever wanted to know about nullptr	https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Stephan-T-Lavavej-Everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-nullptr/
GoingNative 2013	Stephan T Lavavej	Don't Help The Compiler	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbE1UmjJt1E	The compiler knows more about C++ than you do. Let it do its job
CppCon 2014	Stephan T Lavavej	STL Features And Implementation Techniques	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTeKf5Oek2c	Select C++11/14 features and how to use them

Scott Meyers

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
code::dive 2014	Scott Meyers	Cpu Caches and Why You Care	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIkqP4JbkE	If you want performance, know your hardware.
CppCon 2014	Scott Meyers	Type Deduction and Why You Care	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQxj20X-tIU	Includes the Scott Meyers Hair Poll. A quote from the talk: "If you want a completely portable, 100% standards-conformant way to get the wrong answer, this is what you want."
?	Scott Meyers	Why C++ Sails When the Vasa Sank	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vyh1APsMAE	A description of C++, its features and strengths

(A quote from the talk:

Tom Cargill wrote in 1990: [you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you needed one?]
And it is very sad, because when I read this I went "Hmm, well OK, that means this:"

class Base {
private: virtual ~Base() = 0;
//       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
};
class Derived() : protected virtual Base { ... };
//                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I mean I knew immediately what he was talking about, which really is so sad. And I have never needed one. )

Another quote:

When you have a programming language that is one of the top two-three-four programming languages for twenty-five years, it's gotta be doing something right.

And another:

[U.S. National Laboratory] was the first place I ever ran into people who talked about CPU-months.

Kate Gregory

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2015	Kate Gregory	Stop Teaching C	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk
MeetingC++ 2017	Kate Gregory	It's Complicated	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTexD26jIN4
CppCon 2018	Kate Gregory	What Do We Mean When We Say Nothing At All	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYVxGyido9g
CppCon 2019	Kate Gregory	Naming Is Hard: Let's Do Better	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRoCdtZOYg

How to sell change

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
C++ And Beyond 2012	Herb Sutter, Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu	Convincing your Colleagues	https://web.archive.org/web/20160922232136/https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C-and-Beyond-2012-Panel-Convincing-your-Colleagues/

Matt Godbolt

Matt Godbolt is the creator of the Compiler Explorer (a.k.a. godbolt.org), an interactive online compiler which shows the assembly output of compiled C++, Rust, Go (and many more) code.

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2017	Matt Godbolt	What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid"	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSkpMdDe4g4
CppCon 2018	Matt Godbolt	The Bits Between the Bits: How We Get to main()	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOfucXtyEsU
CppCon 2019	Matt Godbolt	Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIoZDUd5DKw	Disclaimer: not much C++
Avast Event 2018	Matt Godbolt	Why C++ Isn’t Dead	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uLTspBEtRE

First links

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2017	Walter E Brown	Whitespace ≤ Comments ＜＜ Code	https://youtu.be/NLebZ3XT92E
CppCon 2016	Andy Bond	AAAARGH!? Adopting Almost Always Auto Reinforces Good Habits!?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCGyvPDM0YY
CppCon 2017	Louis Brandy	Curiously Recurring C++ Bugs at Facebook	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkgszkPnV8g
CppCon 2016	Nicholas Ormrod	The strange details of std::string at Facebook	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk

A little fun

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
CppCon 2017	Tony Van Eerd	Postmodern C++	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTLn3goa3A8	(In the style of Dr. Seuss)
CppCon 2018	Timur Doumler	Can I has grammar?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsG95Y-C14k	Some of the dark corners of the C++ grammar; that C++ compiler writers must be aware of
CppCon 2018	Phil Nash	You're not as smart as you think you are	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbkfH0IZW8g
CppCon 2020	Tony Van Eerd	Songs of my People	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQe66nuMO0

For historical interest

A young Bjarne Stroustrup describes a young C++

Event	Presenter	Title	Link	Comment
University Video Communications, 1994	Bjarne Stroustrup	The Design of C++	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69edOm889V4