Carbon Language: First Look
Carbon is an experimental language designed for the problem spaces where C++ is used today. This course will teach you some of the basics of the language, so you can try it to see if it might be useful for you when it’s ready.
What you'll learn
Carbon is a new language, with keywords and capabilities still being settled. In this course, Carbon Language: First Look, you’ll learn about Carbon from an instructor who is one of the three leads of the Carbon project, so you can begin to evaluate it. First, you’ll explore building the Carbon toolchain. Next, you’ll discover enough syntax to write simple programs. Finally, you’ll learn about the capabilities that are not yet implemented but are expected later in 2024. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Carbon needed to decide whether it will be a good fit for your development work when it’s complete.
Table of contents
- Entry Point of a Carbon Program 2m
- Demo: Getting the Tools 5m
- Demo: Your First Carbon Program 3m
- Command Line Reminder 1m
- Declarations 6m
- Demo: Declarations 2m
- Comments 1m
- Classes 3m
- Naming Conventions 1m
- Factory Functions, Not Constructors 5m
- Demo: Classes 1m
- Copying and Destructors 1m
- Packages and the Prelude 2m
- Demo: Sieve of Eratosthenes 6m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Kate Gregory is in her fifth decade of being paid to program. Her firm, Gregory Consulting Limited, is based in rural Ontario and helps clients adopt new technologies and adjust to the changing business environment. Mentoring, technical writing, and technical speaking are her preferred ways of sharing wisdom with large groups of people. Kate is the author of over a dozen books and speaks at conferences around the world, with keynotes on 5 continents. Kate develops courses (primarily on C++) for ... more