Resources

Zoom meeting link for today's session (the password will be sent on the course Slack channel): https://cern.zoom.us/j/67888545132Link opens in a new window

Link to create repository for today: https://classroom.github.com/a/-xn4SElCLink opens in a new window

 

Introduction	A short overview of the course aims, content and links to useful resources
Demystifying Git & Version control with Git	We begin by looking at how to keep track of changes to your work using a version control system , including a walkthrough exercise using git for basic version control and interacting with a remote repository
Introducing C++	The second part of the day introduces C++. We look at the basic structure and syntax of a program in C++ and begin to implement a very basic program and compile it into an executable
Program flow control in C++	The next C++ topic is how to control the flow of our mpags-cipher program with conditionals and loops
Vectors	The next C++ topic is to introduce the concept of containers, specifically the std::vector
Command-line arguments	Finally we examine how to feed information into our mpags-cipher program using command-line arguments