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OK, so I admit I also washed my hands of C++ sometime around 2009 and I am being forced back into for <reasons>, and I had no idea what these auto and lambda keywords were.

Can anyone point me to a learning reference that will let me jump the meta programming apocalypse and just get to the good stuff?



The "Back to Basics" videos from cppcon are pretty good, IMO.

For lambdas: Back to Basics: Lambdas - Nicolai Josuttis - CppCon 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgNUBw3vcO4

Back To Basics: Lambda Expressions - Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim - CppCon 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIPNFcw6V9o

For auto, this one is short and summarizes some of the gotachs:

C++ Weekly - Ep 287 - Understanding `auto`

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn69TCMdYbQ


The CPPCON "Back to Basics" videos on YouTube are pretty good. Just pick out the ones you want/need for a good tutorial.


jump into learncpp and choose where to start from, goodluck




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