Welcome
I’ve never done a study a group on a blog (or in any virtual form), but I’m hopeful such an open forum will have value for others. Make sure you subscribe to the comment section for each chapter when it’s posted so you’ll know when there is new material. You may also wish to follow the entries feed so you know when we’re starting a new chapter. I’ll also announce the next chapter in the comments for the this preface.
Logistics
I’d like to cover roughly one chapter every two weeks. Please commit to summarizing one chapter by posting a comment here noting the chapter you’d like to cover. We have enough people that we’ll need to double up, but please make sure every chapter is covered before doing so. Feel free to post questions while you’re reading. Try not to let the public forum dissuade you from asking a question but if you do feel uncomfortable posting, you can mail us and we’ll post it anonymously. Please work through the exercises as you go, they are very important to improve your understanding of the material. Mail your answers to eop-study@cpp-next.com and Dave and I will refine them to what we feel are the best answers and post them.
It will also help your understanding if you take the time to prove all the lemmas and for any definition come up with a couple of examples and counter examples. Chapter 1 has several examples for each definition but in the rest of the book they are somewhat sparse.
I will re-read the book along with you and try to point out what I feel are key points along the way. I’ll say up front that I’ve been kicking around the idea of writing a companion book to EoP and I’ve asked Dave Abrahams to collaborate with me. By participating in this study group you are also helping us to research this project. Thank you.
At this time we have about 25 people who have asked to participate. I have no idea if that is too many, or not enough; we’ll have to see how things progress. With that said, everyone please choose a chapter and then open your book to chapter 1…
Sign-up Sheet & Schedule
Please see the Schedule Announcement.
- “Elements of Programming” Study Group
- “Elements of Programming” Preface
- “Elements of Programming” Chapter 1: Foundations
- EOP Exercise Round-Up: Chapter 1
- “Elements of Programming” Chapter 2: Transformations and Their Orbits
- “Elements of Programming” Chapter 3 Preview
- Elements of Programming Study Group
- EOP Exercise Round-Up: Chapter 2
- "Elements of Programming" Schedule Announcement
- “Elements of Programming” Chapter 3: Associative Operations
- Elements of Programming Chapter 3 Exercise Summary
- Elements of Programming Chapter 4 “Linear orderings”
- "Elements of Programming" Chapter 5: Ordered Algebraic Structures
Hi! I’m happy to see the study group session restarted: I’ve been soloing leisurely through the book for about 6 weeks now (doing only some of the exercises) and have just concluded chapter 7 today. I’d like to sign up for the last and vacant 12th chapter of the book if that’s OK.
Best regards, Petar M.
Hi Peter! Welcome aboard!
I added you to the list, and we’re trying to go through and check that everyone else there is still interested and available.
You may see some of the ‘confirmed’ statuses change – keep an eye out. If by chance someone should withdraw we’ll delete them from the schedule – if anyone out there sees a blank spot and wants in please let us know.
Cheers Karl
Question to the study group. Should we put up placeholder posts for all future chapters so people can comment out of order?
Hi Dave.
Yes, I did get a mail about this posting at November 27, but my comment above was posted a couple of days before that. Anyway, now everybody have been informed.
Remarkable work gentlemen. I’m waiting to read your summaries.
Hi.
I think it’s great that you’ve taken on this project, Sean and the C++Next team.
Maybe send a mail to all the participants of this project, informing them about this posting?
Then, those who want to (and haven’t already done so) may subscribe to the feed or subscribe, as you suggest, to be kept updated.
Also, it could have been nice with a list of the participants, somewhere.
Hi Terje,
I already did send out the requested email; didn’t you receive it? As for a list of participants, it should appear in the sign-up sheet at the end of this article as we go along.