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From Python to C++ — and Why the Difference Matters

You already have a working Python program. You are going to write it again in C++, line for line, and reproduce its worst bug on purpose. Along the way you find out why the compiler wants to know the size of the box before you put anything in it, and why the error now arrives before the program has even run.

4 modules · 12 lessons · 6h 15m

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Course contents

1 The Box Has a Size 3 lessons · 1h 22m lock

play_circle The Same Program, Twice 20m
play_circle Cupboard or Fridge: Declaring the Box 22m
play_circle Six Boxes, Two of Them the Wrong Size 40m

2 Where the Error Arrives 3 lessons · 1h 23m lock

play_circle cin, cout, Semicolons and the Line Break 20m
play_circle The Compiler Reads Everything First 18m
play_circle Six Breaks, Six Compiler Messages 45m

3 The Port 3 lessons · 1h 55m lock

play_circle Porting It Line by Line 25m
play_circle The Trailing Space, in a Second Language 45m
play_circle Arrays Are Not Lists 45m

4 The Shape of a Contest Problem 3 lessons · 1h 35m lock

play_circle Reading the Problem Statement 20m
play_circle Getting the Numbers In, Fast 20m
play_circle One Bronze-Shaped Problem, Start to Finish 55m

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