[CppAc] Hi everyone

[Eugenio Bargiacchi]

I'm going to introduce myself as well then =)

I'm a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. My main focus is AI,
in particular multi-agent collaborative settings.

C++ has been my first language, and the one that has always been most
comfortable for me to use. My main goals I guess would be to allow more
people in academia (in particular AI) to leverage C++ a bit more, since at
this point in time squeezing the most out of available machines is pretty
useful in order to make useful contributions to the field.

I have a C++ library (https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox) that I'm
trying to use as a kind of leverage, where I implement existing algorithms
(also trying to fix reproducibility issues in the field) in a
straightforward and well-documented way. I tend to experience quite a bit
of fear when other researchers want to touch C++, so I'm trying to use this
as a way to show around that C++ doesn't really need to be scary in order
to allow people to be productive.

If anyone has similar experiences and/or has some approaches on how to
present C++ feel free to let me know!

Eugenio Bargiacchi



On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter.vanooijen at hu.nl>
wrote:

> Not much activity yet, so I'll introduce myself.
>
>
> I teach at the Hogeschool Utrecht (would be a polytech in other
> countries?) in the netherlands. I am responsible for the Technical
> Informatics (Computer Science?) specialization. I teach (or did teach, or
> will teach) a number of courses focusing on C++ and related subjects
> (interfacing, digital technology, modelling, system design, C, assembler).
>
>
> My personal interest is programming micro-controllers in C++, with a
> special focus on libraries for interfacing external chips. I prefer to do
> this with compile-time abstractions (google "Objects? No thanks!").
>
>
> Last year we stopped teaching C-before-C++, now we (initially) teach
> C++-without-OO (procedural C++).
>
>
> I'd like to hear if anyone has experience with teaching C++ in any other
> way than the traditional lecture/classroom/lab-or-home assignments/teaching-assistent
> way, especially automated grading of assignments and assignment-directed
> instructions (personalized learning).
>
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
>
> 0638150444 - DL200 2.86
>
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