Python vs C++

[Amirouche Boubekki]

2014-08-25 12:52 GMT+02:00 Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche.boubekki at gmail.com>
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> Héllo,
>
>
> 2014-08-21 14:54 GMT+02:00 David Palao <dpalao.python at gmail.com>:
>
>   Why to use C++ instead of python?
>>
>> It is not ranting against C++. I was/am looking for small-medium
>> projects to exercise my C++ skills. But I'm interested in a "genuine"
>> C++ project: some task where C++ is really THE language (and where
>> python is actually a bad ab initio choice).
>>
>
> - You can try to write a game or a game engine.
>  - online book about writing game illustrated in C++
> http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
>  - voxels are all the rage, but the only framework I know that is not
> minecraft-like is still closed source http://www.voxelquest.com/
>  - I am a big fan of Final Fantasy games, it seems to be an easy game
> experience to code
>
> - Contribute to valve opengl debugger, becarful awesomeness ahead,
> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/vogl
> - Contribute to one of the C++ graphical framework: Ogre, blender, Qt
> - Not rigorously a game: contribute to blender: it's written in C, C++ and
> Python.
> - make new graphical devices easy to use from Python, I'm thinking about
> occulus rift and http://hello.vxbx.net/
> - Contribute to Inkscape
> - Contribute to scikit.learn I think they use Cython and C++ to improve
> performance.
>
> Regarding games I like this book: http://fabiensanglard.net/
>

Back in the days of my C++ I liked http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

Also they are a few graph database written in C++ that might need some love:

- https://www.arangodb.org/
- https://github.com/google/cayley

Peace and prosperity
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