Awesome Modern C++

A collection of resources on modern C++.

The goal is to collect a list of resources to help people learn about and leverage modern C++11 and beyond.

Contributing

Library, framework, tool and project template listings are outside the scope of this list.

To add, remove or change things on the list: please submit a pull request to the GitHub repository.

Books

A Tour of C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11/17/20]
The C++ Programming Language (Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11]
Effective Modern C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
Overview of the New C++ (Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]
C++ Core Guidelines (Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter) [C++11/14/17] - Guidelines for using modern C++.
C++ Concurrency in Action (Anthony Williams) [C++11/14/17] - Reference and guide to writing multi-threaded code with standard C++.
C++17 - The Complete Guide (Nicolai M. Josuttis) [C++17] - Giving guidance on how to use Language and Library Features of C++17.
Professional CMake (Craig Scott) - A practical guide for using CMake to build your C++ projects.
Modern C++ Tutorial: C++ 11/14/17/20 On the Fly (Changkun Ou) - The book claims to be “On the Fly”. Its intent is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the relevant features regarding modern C++ (before 2020s).

For a comprehensive guide to C++ books see the Stackoverflow Definitive C++ Book Guide and List.

Community

Find the latest C++ news and updates:

News, Status & Discussion about Standard C++.

Listen to the latest C++ podcasts:

CppCast (YouTube, Twitter) - The first podcast by C++ developers for C++ developers!
Cpp.chat (YouTube, Twitter) - Comments on c++ and issues of interest to c++ programmers.
C++ Weekly - Educational videos by Jason Turner.

Read the latest C++ standard proposals:

C++ Standards Committee Papers.

Discuss everything related to C++:

r/cpp - The C++ subreddit.
C++ Slack - The C++ Slack workspace.
CoreHard Telegram group.

Ask your C++ questions:

r/cpp_questions - A subreddit for C++ questions and answers.
Stackoverflow C++ / C++11 / C++14 / C++17 / C++20 - Stackoverflow questions about C++.

Maybe your question was already answered in a FAQ?:

C++ Super-FAQ.
C++11 FAQ.

Go to one of the many C++ conferences:

List of upcoming and past C++ conferences.

Find C++ user groups:

Meeting C++ list of user groups.
List of user groups in the C++ Super-FAQ.
C/C++ meetups.
Search for channels starting with #ug in the C++ Slack.

Talks

Start with SG20 Education and Recommended Videos for Teaching C++.

Blogs

Andrzej’s C++ blog - Guidelines and thoughts about C++.
Anthony Williams’ blog
Embedded in Academia - John Regehr, Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah, USA.
Eric Niebler
Fluent C++ - Expressive Code in C++.
Guru of the Week (new posts) - A regular series of C++ programming problems created and written by Herb Sutter.
Guru of the Week (older posts) - Older Guru of the Week posts.
Marshall’s C++ Musings
Paul Fultz II’s Blog
Preshing on Programming
Simplify C++ - Write clean and maintainable C++.
Sticky Bits - A blog looking at developing software for real-time and embedded systems.
Sutter’s Mill - Herb Sutter on software development.
The View from Aristeia -Scott Meyers’ Professional Activities and Interests.
Visual C++ Team Blog
Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Websites

C++ Best Practices - Collaborative Collection of C++ Best Practices.
C++ Patterns - A repository of modern C++ patterns.
C++ reference🔥 - C++ reference.
C++ By Example - Learn C++ by Example!

About

This list was compiled by Erik Rigtorp with help from the C++ community: