C++ and C

Podcasts

• Embedded.fm (Jason Turner; Dan Saks; more on C++)
• C++ Podcast (homepage😉
• CPP Chat (Twitter; Homepage; Overcast; YouTube, Slack)
• LambdaCast (Twitter; Soundcloud)

Discussions and C++ & C

• Myths about C++ (pg 1 and pg 2)
• Modern C++ for programmers (pg 1 and pg 2)
• Discussion on Reddit about C++ in embedded devices
• Jens Gustedt's discussion on overlap b/w C and C++.
• Twitter conversation on C community & best practices.

Programming Teaching Methodologies

• Teaching C++
• Teaching C
• Teaching Debugging
  • Debugging Skills Paper (RIT)
  • Codeunion's "Teaching Novice Programmers How to Debug Their Code"
  • 1974 ACM paper on "Teaching Debugging"

Books & Online Book Equivalents

• C++17 in detail (ebook) by Bartlomiej Filipek
• C++17 the Complete Book (ebook) by Nicolai M. Josuttis.
• Embedded C Coding Standard (free PDF ebook) by Barr Group.
• The C++ Standard Library (ebook) by Rainer Grimm (up to C++17)
• Mastering the C++17 STL by Arthur O'Dwyle
• Practical C++ by Adam Singer
• Effective Modern CPP by Scott Adams (up to C++14)
• Modern C by Jens Gustedt (free PDF ebook)(up to C11, maybe C18)
• The C Book by Banahan, Brady & Dory (free HTML version)(1991; C89/C90)
• Essential C at Stanford (free webpage; date & standard tbd)
• C Tutorial on Microchip's Wiki

Processor-Specific Books on C, C++ and Assembler

• Embedded C programming and the AVR (publisher page; Google page)
• Make AVR Programming (publisher page; 2014; code samples; Kindle)
• AVR by Mazidi (amazon; publisher page)
• Grover's DSP in HC16 (out-of-print; ILL)
• Kinetis KL25 by Mazidi (Kindle eBook; amazon, publisher page)
• MBED Handbook for ARM.
• 8-bit PICs links.
• Programming with STM32 (Nucleo Board & C/C++) via York Library only.

Standards

• C ISO Standard: Open Standards C; C11 Draft. C18 @ Engg. Workbench.
• C++ ISO Standard: Open Standards C++; C++17 Draft; C++17 @ Engg WBench.
  • Latest draft; PDFs of C++11 to C++17. (via Twitter)
• C++ Performance: 2006 Report. CSA 2012 Report.
• MISRA C (embedded / automotive safety rules): standards; discussion; discussion.
  • Applied at JPL.
• Embedded C ISO Standard: Open Standards; 2006 Draft; ISO 2009 Report
• Barr Group Embedded C Standard.
• JPL's C coding standard (PDF) and webpage.
• The ARM CMSIS standard
  • targets C99 & C++03
  • Is MISRA "compliant"

People

• Kate Gregory (twitter; keynote 2017)
• Dan Saks (embedded.fm, cpp podcast, keynote 2016, STL without Dynamic Memory)
• Michael Caisse (Twitter, cpp podcast, CPP Chat)
• Rainer Grimm (Embedded C++)
• Bartlomiej Filipek (C++ Blog)
• Odin Holmes. (Twitter; CPP Podcast ep 1; ep 2; CPP Chat )
• Matt Godbolt (Twitter, Compiler Explorer, YouTube)
• Michael Barr & Barr Group (Personal Twitte, Corporate Twitter, Site, embedded.fm podcast)
• Bartlomiej Filipek (Twitter)
• Jens Gustedt (Twitter; Blog on C; Book on Modern C; C & C++ overlap)
• Simon Brand (Twitter; Blog on C++)
• Arvid Gerstmann (Twitter; C and C++ person)
• Titus Winters (Twitter)

Conferences

• Meeting C++ (Nov 15 - 17, 2018 in Berlin)
• Meeting Embedded (Nov 14, 2018 in Berlin)
• emBO++ (2019 date not set; was in Bochum, Germany in 2018)
• C++ on Sea (Feb 2019)
• Pacific++ (webpage; Oct 2018 in Australia)

Teaching

• Pluralsight C++
• Learn CPP
• CPP Quiz (twitter; web page)
• Barr Group (Course Catalogue, Embedded C++ Quiz, Embedded C Quiz)
• Rainer Grimm's Modern C++ Concurrency interactive course

Groups

• Discord #include C++
• Slack CPP Language Channel
• CPP Chat Slack on CPPLang

General C++ Resources

• C++17 compiler features.

Embedded C++ resources

• CPP Con page on Dan Saks.
• C++ on AVR gcc hints.
• Barr Group C & C++ (Embedded C Standard)
• C++ with Arduino (plus Arduino C++ IDE)
• Pidgin C with Arduino

Compilers, Debugger and IDEs

• Arduino C++ IDE (based on Eclipse, separate from the standard Arduino IDE)
• A list of C and C++ compilers (Free Country)
• JTAG Explained
• IDE: MCUXpresso for NXP ARM overview.

Code Analysis Tools

• General / Multi-chip Tools
  • Compiler Explorer.  See Assembler in "real time" in a browser window (ARM, x86 & MIPS supported)
  • Comparison of IDA Pro, radare2, Hopper and Binary Ninja.
  • Disassembling with Radare2 ASCII Visual Mode.
  • More visual analysis in Radare2 (tutorial) with Cutter. (GitHub page & install instructions)
  • The Capstone project is a commonly used component in disassemblers and malware analysis tools, including Hopper (tutorial 1, tutorial 2), radare2 (cutter tutorial) and Binary Ninja.
  • Course on disassembling / binary exploitation.
  • Online disassembler, with graphing capability (HC11, AVR, ARM…)
• PIC-specific
  • In MPLAB X, with simulator.
  • List of PIC disassemblers
  • Source to flowchart (PIC16/18)
• AVR-specific
  • command-line with GNU tools
  • AVR disassembler, disas, by Johannes Bauer.
  • Using an ATMEL ICE to program an Arduino (ATMEGA328) in C++/C.
  • AVR and radare2: how-to 1 and how-to 2.
• ARM Cortex M-specific
  • command-line with GNU tools
  • on Eclipse using GNU tools
  • Example using radare2 to analyze an STM32 binary.
  • Peripheral Memory view in MCUXpresso and GNU MCU Eclipse.
  • Assembler on ARM with GCC: Ethernut. (MCUXpresso-10pt2-compatible)

Libraries and Support file for C++

• Electronic Arts STL (EASTL) for embedded / gaming platforms
• Embedded System Templates (ETL CPP)
• List of C++ libraries.
• hwcpp (hardware c++) library
• Abseil (webpage, Twitter) library from Google.  Time zones, etc.
• Meeting C++ certified libraries.
• Music-related C++ discussion on Twitter.