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Presented by David Cravey 10/15/2011

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About Me David Cravey Started programming in 4 th grade Learned BASIC on a V-Tech Precomputer 1000 and then GW-BASIC, and eventually QuickBasic Got bored with BASIC in 8 th Grade so moved to C++ Software Development Manager at Vivicom President of the Houston C++ User Group Meets at Microsofts Houston Office 1 st Thursday of Each Month @ 7PM Microsoft Visual C++ MVP

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Agenda Why C++? Concurrent Runtime Tasks PPL Agents GPGPU AMP Resources Summary

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The language of power!

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Why C++ C++ Provides Speed Down to the metal performance! Access to the Latest Hardware and Drivers Example: GPGPU Multi-paradigm Programming Procedural Object Oriented Generic Programming High Level Programming (i.e. Strong Abstractions) Classes AND Templates But still allows you to step down to Low Level as needed! Portable Code ?

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Modern C++: Clean SafeFast *Used with permission from Herb Sutters Writing modern C++ code: how C++ has evolved over the years http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-835Thttp://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-835T

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Automatic Memory Management Never type delete again! unique_ptr shared_ptr weak_ptr

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Whats Different: At a Glance Then Now circle* p = new circle( 42 ); vector vw = load_shapes(); for( vector ::iterator i = vw.begin(); i != vw.end(); ++i ) { if( *i && **i == *p ) cout