There comes a time in any software developer’s life when they look at their achievements, the lines of code written and the ...

Only a handful of states levy an inheritance tax, but it’s important to understand how it works and how it differs from the estate tax.

Memory safe programming is becoming a bigger concern. Find out why, what the C++ community is doing, and other safe languages.

After two years of being beaten with the memory-safety stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write less vulnerable code. The Safe C++ Extensions proposal aims to address ...

Find out why Apple believes C++ is out and Swift is in along with the potential job opportunities for developers proficient in this language.

Compare inheritance and composition, the two fundamental ways to relate Java classes, then practice debugging ClassCastExceptions in Java inheritance.

C++ strongly supports the concept of reusability. The C++ classes can be reused in several ways. Once a class has been written and tested, it can be adapted by another programmer to suit their ...

From our study of C++, it should be clear that, unlike class encapsulation and single inheritance, which were essentially free in C, polymorphism in C involves some complexity and overhead. In the ...