Reading code is a basic skill that working programmers need to acquire in order to work on development teams. It is really hard to expect that you will work in isolation of other people’s code. Therefore, reading code is a skill that can make you much more productive. Although it not easy to learn this…
If you write a program in C/C++ for Windows, you are very close to the interface with the operating system. For this reason, it is also interesting to have some idea of what it is doing. There are two main types of Windows programs: graphical programs and console-based programs. The way Windows determine what kind…
In modern C++, we are used to see const pointers. They are a useful way to avoid changes in memory passed to a function. As such, they are very common in function declarations. The const word, however, has other uses. It turns out that when the const keyword is applied to the pointer itself (instead…