Next BeCPP UG Meeting Planned For July 3rd, 2019

May 26, 2019 Marc Gregoire Events

The next meeting of the Belgian C++ Users Group is planned for Wednesday July 3rd, 2019 at 18:00 at CluePoints @ OFFBar | ONSpace.

CluePoints ( https://cluepoints.com/ ) is sponsoring this event by providing the location, drinks and catering.

The agenda is as follows:

• 18:00: Sandwiches.
• 18:30: Session 1: What’s new in Visual C++ 2019? (Marc Gregoire)
  Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and Visual C++ 2019 come with a host of new features. In this session, we will have a look at the important changes and improvements for C++ developers.
• 19:30: Break
• 19:45: Session 2: Statistical Scientific programming: challenges in converting R to C++ (Olivia Quinet)
  Scientific programming is in itself a challenge due to several concomitant issues and requirements including low response time, low memory usage, minimizing numerical errors, error propagation.
  R is a programming language for statistical computation providing a wide set of packages for linear and non linear modeling, statistical tests, …
  This talk will focus on the different Object-Oriented strategies implemented to overcome those challenges, speed up the computation while reducing the memory footprint.
• 20:45: Introduction to CluePoints, followed by a drink.

We will be giving away 2 copies of Professional C++, the 4th Edition.

We will also give away two copies of Beginning C++17, From Novice to Professional.

The event is free for everyone, but you need to register for it.

There are 50 seats available for this event.

Note: The deadline for registrations is June 30th, 2019!

Visual C++ 2019,