22 Feb 2013 — San Francisco, CA — The CPPGM Foundation (www.cppgm.org) released further news today about the C++ Grandmaster Certification, the free massively open online course (MOOC) where you build your own C++ compiler, standard library and toolchain for Linux x86-64.

It was reported that 10,000 programmers have enrolled in the course including people from Intel[], Stanford[], Google[], MIT[], IEEE[], Harvard[], and many other companies and educational institutions from all over the world.

CPPGM has been inundated with requests for more information about the content of the course, so Programming Assignment 1 has been released as a public preview for free anonymous download and review.

Programming Assignment 1 asks the participant to implement the first three phases of translation as described in clause 2 of the C++ Standard (the preprocessors tokenizer).

The starter kit is available from:

http://www.cppgm.org/pa1.html

By popular demand enrollments have been extended until 15 March. To enroll or for more information visit the course web site at:

http://www.cppgm.org

For press information contact support@cppgm.org

ABOUT CPPGM:

The CPPGM Foundation was formed by a software company that recognized the value to programmer productivity that a good knowledge of language mechanics had to new developers to their team. The C++ Grandmaster Certification began development as an internal training program, and the foundation was founded to offer it publicly.

[*] Company and organizations names have been used without permission and are property of their respective owners.

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Subject: C++ Grandmaster Certification (www.cppgm.org) Keywords: c++, c++11, linux, x86-64, compilers, mooc, course

1st Feb 2013 — San Francisco, CA — It was announced today by the newly formed CPPGM Foundation (www.cppgm.org) that the C++ Grandmaster Certification is now open for enrollment.

The C++ Grandmaster Certification is a massively open free online course (MOOC) for expert C++ programmers. It provides the most rigorous C++-specific qualification possible.

Participants in the course will demonstrate their comprehensive knowledge of C++ by writing their own fully functional ISO C++11 standard compliant C++ compiler, C++ standard library and toolchain — including a preprocessor, assembler, and linker — targeting the Linux operating system and x86-64 architecture.

The toolchain will be written entirely in standard C++. No third-party tools or libraries will be used.

As a grand finale the participant will build their toolchain with itself (a self-hosting build) and pass the conformance test with it.

Enrollments are open now and close 15th Feb, 2013. The course will commence shortly after in the spring. For more details and to enroll visit the course web site at:

http://www.cppgm.org

For press information contact support@cppgm.org

ABOUT CPPGM:

The CPPGM Foundation was formed by a software company that recognized the value to programmer productivity that a good knowledge of language mechanics had to new developers to their team. The C++ Grandmaster Certification began development as an internal training program, and the foundation was founded to offer it publicly.

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