As you might read in my recent post - coding without Google - I’ve started learning to program mostly from books. In the beginning, I read them from cover to cover (assuming I could understand them!) and recreated examples. It was an excellent time! In the post, I’d like to share my list of important books that taught me the base of my knowledge.

Just a quick summary of a great presentation from Build 2014 called Native Code Performance on Modern CPUs: A Changing Landscape. The presenter Eric Brumer (from Visual C++ Compiler Team) talked, in quite unique way, about deep down details of code optimizations. Why it is better to use compiler to do the hard work.

As it appears, our ability to code can be improved by taking some practices from martial arts! CodeKata is a catchy name for set of exercises that done regularly should make your coding skills better. Today I would like to share my “answers” to one of the Kata - karate chop, or simply the binary search algorithm.

The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference (2nd Edition)< /> We are still waiting for some more books about new C++ standard. Fortunately for us, some authors managed to write books even before C++11 is well “domesticated”. One of such examples is the book mentioned in the title of this post.