Talks @FI MUNI Brno about C programming language and libraries. Topic of SDL2 library, Gradle build for C/C++

1. There is more to C
26.11.2013
FI MUNI, Brno
Juraj Michálek
http://georgik.sinusgear.com

2. Grab the source code
https://github.com/georgik/fimuni-c-cpp-examples.git

3. Who am I?

4. Fairy tale of C kingdom
VS 2013 - tools
SDL
Automation Evolved

5. Once upon a time

6. there lived a mighty king

7. His name was C

8. He ruled nearly everything
telecom, medicine, banks, games

9. King was getting older and paunchy

10. World was changing

11. Changing so fast..

12. New rivals have arrived

13. Caravane with nomads
from the land of Perl

14. Lords of snakes
from the land of Python

15. Jewelers from the the land of Ruby

16. Sharp warriors from the land of .Net

17. Coffee magnates
from the land of Java

18. Cocoa drinkers
from the land of Apple trees

19. Old kingdom of C fell into oblivion

20. People were scared to enter
the realm of old C

21. Beware SIGSEGV dragons!

22. Memory leak swamps!

23. Zombies of legacy code!

24. Evil MACROmancers
#define true false

25. Insidious multi-threaded bugs.

26. Scary place for life

27. The era of Cloud has emerged

28. Technologies influencing each other

29. Breeze of fresh ideas starts blowing
from NodeJS, AngularJS and others

30. Old rust is falling apart
New shiny tools and libraries

31. Scalable
Portable
Distributed
Performance
Asynchronous
Memory and energy efficiet

32. tiobe.com - programming lang. index

34. NuGet - http://www.nuget.org

38. Made with SDL

39. Made with SDL

40. Multiplatform
SDL officially supports
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Support for other platforms may be found in the
source code.

41. SDL versions
1.2 stable - rock solid
2.x development - new features

42. SDL_init(flags)
SDL_INIT_TIMER - The timer subsystem
SDL_INIT_AUDIO - The audio subsystem
SDL_INIT_VIDEO - The video subsystem
SDL_INIT_CDROM - The cdrom subsystem
SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK - The joystick subsystem
SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING - All of the above
SDL_INIT_NOPARACHUTE - Prevents SDL from catching fatal signals
SDL_INIT_EVENTTHREAD - Runs the event manager in a separate thread

43. Quit application
SDL_quit()

44. Window
SDL_CreateWindow("Hello World!", 100, 100,
640, 480, SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN);

45. Load bitmap
SDL_Surface *bmp = nullptr;
bmp = SDL_LoadBMP("smajlik.bmp");

46. Visual data
SDL_Renderer
SDL_Texture

47. Keyboard
SDL_PollEvent(SDL_Event *event)
event.key.keysym.sym

48. Timer
SDL_TimerID SDL_AddTimer(
Uint32
interval,
SDL_TimerCallback callback,
void*
param)

49. Mouse
SDL_GetMouseState(*x, *y);

50. Text
Not implemented

51. Extensions
extension for many languages:
C++, Java, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

52. PyGame
Power of C and Power of Python
http://www.pygame.org

54. Allegro

56. Allegro 5.1
Win, Lin, Mac
iOS, Android
http://alleg.sourceforge.net/a5docs/refman/

57. Initialization
al_init();

58. Graphic environment
al_create_display(int w, int h)

59. Autiomation Evolved

60. Gradle - cpp-exe

61. Gradle wrapper
Download and prepare infrastructure

62. Gradle - compile with debug

63. Cppcheck

64. L10N - verify your translations
http://www.microsoft.com/Language

66. Continuous integration

68. Opportunity for
innovative students
Bachelor and master thesis @Y Soft
Contact person: Andriy.Stetsko@ysoft.com

69. Thanks to artists
images used in this presentation were published under creative commons license. Links to originals:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fatboyke/3405148748/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teveve/6301993588/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevewilhelm/6242822362/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess
http://www.flickr.com/photos/akosma/9486807123/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlestilford/6362884553/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciat/6917871707/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anieto2k/4455227465/
http://www.geograph.ie/photo/1113036
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dark_Sky_(3274525313).
jpg
http://www.elfwood.com/~arknott/Red-Dragon.2539297.html
http://commons.wikimedia.
org/wiki/File:Wolf-River-swamp-North-Mississippi.jpg
http://pako0007.deviantart.com/art/Zombie-Imp-2-267822507
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bogenfreund/367091428/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/infinite-magic/4016608841/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lennysan/4403695597/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/avaverino/4870587458/