Re: [Boost-users] Best libraries for a Boost workshop

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Best libraries for a Boost workshop
From: Clark Gaebel (cg.wowus.cg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-22 18:09:49

I would definitely like to see threads mentioned. Portable 
multithreading is just so hard to come by these days :(

Bind and the cool-ness of its currying might not be appreciated nearly 
as much by some. Have those attending dabbled in functional programming, 
or is it all "OOP or bust!" ?

And shared_ptr is really useful, but it seems more fit for a C++0x 
workshop...

On 06/22/10 17:50, Mike P wrote:
> If I was being introduced to boost for the first time, I would
> appreciated seeing the following topics presented:
>
> shared_ptr and other smart pointers
> tuples
> bind and lambda (just a little subset of what is possible)
> enable_if (and overview of SFINAE)
> function
> multi_index (some simple subset of it)
> variant and any (and their differences)
> ref (with a couple of examples where it is useful)
> type_traits (just so to show that something like this exists)
>
> possibly a little bit of regex
> possibly a little of threads
>
> I think that these form a basis for other libraries, and once they
> understand them, they would be able to go and explore other boost
> libraries on their own.
>
> Good luck.
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Bronek Kozicki<brok_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>    
>> On 22/06/2010 20:41, José Tomás Tocino García wrote:
>>      
>>> So far, the libraries I'm sure I'm going to teach are: smart pointers,
>>> lexical_cast, bind and function, ref, hash and unordered containers.
>>>        
>> program options are quite useful, I would also add optional.
>>
>>
>> B.
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Regards,
-Clark