I added React Router to the Ledger, which I think is quite nice. That is something I was going to have to learn at some point to become a respectable React programmer, and it is pretty straightforward.
Unfortunately I have to put the Ledger on the back burner for a couple of weeks, because I have a job interview that involves C++ and I need to brush up on my C++! It has been a while since I’ve used it professionally.
I figure what better way to make this fun than to do some OpenGL, which I have some familiarity with. I may or may not be able to display this on the web page at some point… I have done some reading about how to run C++ in a browser and it seems like more than I want to take on just for this interview. OpenGL is enough to take on! Really my objective is to use OpenGL as a way to discuss some esoteric C++ concepts that I should be able to answer questions about. I have a list of them from my friend Dave, who is a C++ guru. He has suggested the following basic topics:
- Casting operators (
static_cast,const_cast, etc) - Conventions for using
autokeyword - Elementary operations on
vectorand other containers - Lambdas
- Standard library pointer classes (
auto_ptr,unique_ptr, etc) - Move semantics
So, I will discuss these topics as it relates to doing fun things in OpenGL, and see how far I get. As a starting point I am using Glitter, which got me up and running pretty quickly, and I am moving through the beginner tutorials at http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/. These tutorials are good because they don’t lay out the source code in its entirety… they give it to you little snippets at a time. That way you have to figure out where the snippets go, and it ensures you are paying attention instead of just cutting and pasting.
I am skipping all of the texturing and lighting stuff because that is not really important right now – all I am looking for is to draw some cubes, and move around and look around with the keyboard & mouse. Once I have that up and running we can do some fun stuff shooting cubes around and whatnot.