Stop Teaching C with Kate Gregory

CppCast

• Episode: Stop Teaching C with Kate Gregory
• Website: CppCast
• Feed URL: http://cppcast.libsyn.com/rss
• Duration: 00:48:18
• Published: 2015-10-16 05:12

Rob and Jason are joined by Kate Gregory to talk about how we should be teaching C++ without the C

Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler, and has been paid to program since 1979. She loves C++ and believes that software should make our lives easier. That includes making the lives of developers easier! She'll stay up late arguing about deterministic destruction or how C++ these days is not the C++ you remember.

Kate runs a small consulting firm in rural Ontario and provides mentoring and management consultant services, as well as writing code every week. She has spoken all over the world, written over a dozen books, and helped thousands of developers to be better at what they do. Kate is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Visual C++ MVP, an Imagine Cup judge and mentor, and an active contributor to StackOverflow and other StackExchange sites. She develops courses for Pluralsight, primarily on C++ and Visual Studio. In 2014 and 2015 she was Open Content Chair for CppCon, the largest C++ conference ever held, where she also delivered sessions.

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Kate Gregory

• @gregcons
• Kate Gregory's Blog
• Kate Gregory on StackOverflow
• Kate Gregory's Pluralsight courses
• Kate Gregory's books on Amazon

Links

• CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory "Stop Teaching C" (Slides)
• CppCon 2014: James McNellis & Kate Gregory "Modernizing Legacy C++ Code"
• CppCon 2014: James McNellis & Kate Gregory "Making C++ Code Beautiful"