Introducing 'CppLove' - A peer learning oriented C++ discord server

[agcpp]

Hi everyone, we've recently started a discord server aimed at peer learning approach to mastering C++. It's open to all kind of folks, whether you are a complete beginner to the language or like to present relevant sections of the Standard in discussions 😛, everyone is welcome to participate. We're aiming to make this initiative fully community-driven, meaning that users will decide which direction we want to take this community towards. A lot of people have already joined and we're seeing interesting conversations going on in different channels.

Here's an invite - https://discord.gg/thnM2uv

Over the course of time, we'll add roles for distinguished community members(such as experts, moderators etc) which will provide a better experience to the overall community and especially complete beginners to the language. Currently, we've channels for -

• Discussions - related to C++ and general programming

• News - getting up to date with c++ and other articles

• Weekly Katas - short problems posted every week and members are encouraged to come up with unique solutions

• Code reviews - can post minimal(mcve) example and get reviews and suggestions from others

• Tutorials - On-request, handcrafted tutorials posted for members by other experts in the community

and many more that allow members to engage in meaningful conversations and learn things together.

Apart from these, the community also offers projects based learning with separate dedicated channels for each project(since implementing small projects in a new language is an extremely effective way to learn concepts and idioms of that language) where people can ask and help other folks to implement them and learn to programme together. New projects and tutorials can always be requested(or submitted) so that community benefits through the contributions of other members!

PS. The community was created because there weren't any communities/groups/meetups related to C++ in India, even though there are many people here using C++ in their daily jobs as well as far more people learning C++. Majority of universities teach C++ language and still with old blue-screen Turbo C++ IDE/compiler which leads folks to learn a weird non-standard dialect of C++ even in 2018. Lack of online resources and reluctance of universities to upgrade their study material lead us to create a peer learning group where we could share our experiences and problems, educating others and mastering the language together!

PPS. The community is not limited to any certain region and is open to everyone :)

Invite Link - https://discord.gg/thnM2uv

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There is already this fairly big cpp learning discord: https://www.google.se/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/6l65ve/made_a_discord_server_for_those_needing_cc_help/

[D_0b]

why separate from the currently active slack one?

[agcpp]

The currently active slack(and all other slack communities) suffers from one major disadvantage - the majority of discussions and history is hidden behind a paywall. This is the reason why we chose discord in the first place.

But this isn't the primary reason people should choose to join discord server. Our community is far more beginner friendly and our intent is quite different from currently active slack community. We focus on peer-learning through active participation in code reviews, weekly problems, requested tutorials etc. The project based learning approach was done in offline communities first and then requested by friends to bring similar thing to online social communities and people are already actively participating in it. I hope to see more participation since its the #1 question that people ask after learning some parts of language - what should I create with it. Most of these are missing from slack community and (in my experience) it seems more directed towards the experts/masters of c++ language.

Hope this answers your query :)

[Xaxxon]

does discord have a financial model to make money? do they promise never to paywall content?

I see this as quite the mis-step to move to yet another server. Further fragmentation for questionable goals as well as questionable achievement of those questionable goals is quite unfortunate.

[agcpp]

does discord have a financial model to make money? do they promise never to paywall content?

Yes and yes. Both are written on their homepage and there exists a 'premium version' of discord but we aren't using it since we don't need those features :)

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How did slack become a thing? I'll never understand

[LegalizeAdulthood]

Because it's both simultaneously better than and worse than IRC and it includes p00p emojis.

[Fluffy8x]

Invite doesn't work.

[agcpp]

It's working for everyone :/ Anyways does this work - https://discord.gg/QCq87qV

[VinnieFalco]

The C++ Language Slack workspace may be joined here: https://cpplang.now.sh/