<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I'm going to introduce myself as well then =)<br><br></div>I'm a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. My main focus is AI, in particular multi-agent collaborative settings.<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div><div>I have a C++ library (<a href="https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox">https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox</a>) 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.</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone has similar experiences and/or has some approaches on how to present C++ feel free to let me know!<br><br></div><div>Eugenio Bargiacchi<br></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Wouter van Ooijen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wouter.vanooijen@hu.nl" target="_blank">wouter.vanooijen@hu.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">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).</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">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!").</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Last year we stopped teaching C-before-C++, now we (initially) teach C++-without-OO (procedural C++). </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I'd like to hear if anyone has experience with teaching C++ in any other way than the traditional lecture/classroom/lab-or-home <wbr>assignments/teaching-assistent way, especially automated grading of assignments and assignment-directed
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