BD Software delivers on-site training seminars for programmers in C, C++, Java, Perl and Unix

BD Software - On-Site Training in C++ / Unix

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Our Home page about C++ Training.

About BD Software and Leor Zolman.

Leor Zolman's Resumé and twenty years' worth of international Clients.

Here's what some students have had to say.

How to Contact Us.

This Overview has links to all courses organized by category.

If you want to find out right away what a training is going to cost, here's the Pricing Information.

C++ Courses

Our most popular course these days is Advanced C++ Programming. Here are the Course Details.

There are two introductory C++ courses. The first, written by Dan Saks, is for those who already know C: C++ and Object-Oriented Programming. Here are the Course Details. This Pretest can be used to determine if students have enough C experience to be ready for this C++ course. Here's the Solution to the Pretest.

The second introductory C++ course, C++ for Non-C Programmers, assumes no C experience and serves as a primer in both C and C++. Here are Course Details.

C Courses

Here's our venerable Introduction to Programming in C and the Course Details.

This Advanced C Programming course was written by Dan Saks (Details). Labs include the creation of a C declaration parser...in C of course!

Unix/Linux Courses

Unix and its variants continue to thrive. We offer three Unix-centric courses, beginning with Unix Fundamentals. This is a user's introduction to "any flavor" of Unix: Unix, Linux, HPux, AIX, Solaris, you name it. The beauty of Unix is that the fundamentals essentially have not changed in 25 years. They probably won't for the next 25, either...

After the fundamentals, the best course to take is Korn Shell Programming. This will give the Unix user all the basic tools for process management and basic scripting, and prepare them for a role as a system administrator.

Perl Programming teaches the modern Perl language that consolidates many of the piecemeal tools found on Unix, adds super-powerful text manipulation features, and makes it all run fast as all get-out. Here are the Course Details.

Development Tools Available Here -- Free

Leor Zolman's pet project since 2001: the STL Error Decryptor ("STLFilt") is a system for post-processing error diagnostics from the major C++ compilers to simplify STL-related and other types of template error messages. Here's the Rationale, and a list of STLFilt's Command-Line Options to give a feel for its versatility.

An early experiment of Leor's in template programming was the STL Container Initialization Library (InitUtil). The idea--a way to easily initialize STL containers with lists of constant data--was then taken to a higher level by Thorton Ottosen and accepted into the Boost libraries, so InitUtil is obsolete now, but it still illustrates some interesting template programming techniques.

Leor wrote a C compiler called BDS C in 1979 that ran on 8-bit 8080-based personal computers. It was pretty cool for its time, and led to a lot of folks getting their start in C-based system development. As a museum piece, it can still be run under various available Z80 emulators.

Other Resources on the Site

I helped Scott Meyers with validation of the code examples in his book Effective STL, and he has given me permission to distribute the Effective STL Source Code Archive containing the test snippets.

Here's an article in The C/C++ Users Journal I wrote: Thinking in STL (You Know it Don't Come Easy)

This is my "Link Page" full of useful C++-related and other resources: Recommended Links

Here's a little bit of Astrophotography by Leor Zolman

Courses:

C and C++ Seminars

Java Seminars

Unix-Related Seminars

Clients:

Qualcomm

Sapient, Inc.

Boston Technology

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