C and C++ Project Tutorials: Compilers, OS, Emulators & More

Documentation Index

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Compilers & Interpreters

• Build an Interpreter (Chapter 14 onwards is written in C)
• Build Your Own Lisp
• Implementing a Language with LLVM
• Write a C compiler
  • Part 1: Integers, Lexing and Code Generation
  • Part 2: Unary Operators
  • Part 3: Binary Operators
  • Part 4: Even More Binary Operators
  • Part 5: Local Variables
  • Part 6: Conditionals
  • Part 7: Compound Statements
  • Part 8: Loops
  • Part 9: Functions
  • Part 10: Global Variables
• Let’s write a compiler
  • Part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and doing some planning
  • Part 2: A lexer
  • Part 3: A parser
  • Part 4: Testing
  • Part 5: A code generator
  • Part 6: Input and output
  • Part 7: Arrays
  • Part 8: Strings, forward references, and conclusion
• Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Build a Live Code-reloader Library for C++
• Build Your Own Text Editor
• Writing a Linux Debugger
  • Part 1: Setup
  • Part 2: Breakpoints
  • Part 3: Registers and memory
  • Part 4: Elves and dwarves
  • Part 5: Source and signals
  • Part 6: Source-level stepping
  • Part 7: Source-level breakpoints
  • Part 8: Stack unwinding
  • Part 9: Handling variables
  • Part 10: Advanced topics

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Operating Systems & Kernels

• Write an OS from scratch
• How to create an OS from scratch
• Let’s Write a Kernel
• Write a Bootloader in C
• Learning KVM - Implement Your Own Linux Kernel
• Linux Container in 500 Lines of Code
• Write Your Own Virtual Machine
• Memory Allocators 101 - Write a simple memory allocator
• Write a FUSE Filesystem
• Building a CHIP-8 Emulator

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Games & Graphics

• Beginning Game Programming with C++ and SDL
• Tetris Tutorial in C++ Platform Independent
• Meta Crush Saga: a C++17 compile-time game
• High-Performance Matrix Multiplication
• Space Invaders from Scratch
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
• Tiny 3D graphics projects
  • Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code
  • Understandable RayTracing in 256 lines of bare C++
  • KABOOM! in 180 lines of bare C++
  • 486 lines of C++: old-school FPS in a weekend

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OpenGL

• Creating 2D Breakout game clone in C++ with OpenGL
  • Breakout
  • Setting up
  • Rendering Sprites
  • Levels
  • Collisions
    • Ball
    • Collision detection
    • Collision resolution
  • Particles
  • Postprocessing
  • Powerups
  • Audio
  • Render text
  • Final thoughts
• Handmade Hero
• How to Make Minecraft in C++/OpenGL (video)

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Network Programming

• Let’s Code a TCP/IP Stack
  • Part 1: Ethernet & ARP
  • Part 2: IPv4 & ICMPv4
  • Part 3: TCP Basics & Handshake
  • Part 4: TCP Data Flow & Socket API
  • Part 5: TCP Retransmission
• Programming concurrent servers
  • Part 1 - Introduction
  • Part 2 - Threads
  • Part 3 - Event-driven
  • Part 4 - libuv
  • Part 5 - Redis case study
  • Part 6 - Callbacks, Promises and async/await
• MQTT Broker from scratch
  • Part 1 - The protocol
  • Part 2 - Networking
  • Part 3 - Server
  • Part 4 - Data structures
  • Part 5 - Topic abstraction
  • Part 6 - Handlers
  • Bonus - Multithreading

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Other C/C++ Tutorials

• Write a Shell in C
• How to Program an NES Game in C
• Write a hash table in C
• Let’s Build a Simple Database
• Build Your Own Redis with C/C++
• Implementing a Key-Value Store