The official presentation materials from C++ and Beyond 2010 are now available for purchase. The price is $24.95 for single copies, and volume discounts kick in if you buy 10 or more (e.g., a copy for each member of your team). That’s a 99% discount compared to the price of having attended C&B last year :-)
These are the same materials attendees received, and they include everything presented at both the October and December editions of the event, including “Loose Ends” and “Sneak Peek” materials put together by me and Herb, respectively, in response to questions and issues that came up during the events.
Because these are presentation materials, you’ll sometimes have to read between the lines to connect the semantic dots. And in those places in my materials where I used animations to show dynamic behavior, you’ll see that all the images for an animation sit on top of one another. Fortunately, you don’t have to imagine what the materials are like or try to envision whether you will find them useful, because you can simply download the free sample and see for yourself.
For those of you who would have liked to attend last year’s C&B, but were unable to, these materials are the next best thing to having been there. They can also serve as an indicator of the kinds of technical treatments you can expect at this year’s C&B, although of course this August we’ll cover completely new material. (We’ll start posting prospective session topics soon. Currently, Herb is in Madrid working with the rest of the C++ standardization committee to dot all the “i”s and cross all the “t”s that are necessary to finalize C++0x. That will set the stage for us to be able to discuss the new version of C++ at C&B 2011 in Banff without having to preface every statement with “draft.” Finally!)
Please check out the presentation materials from last year’s C++ and Beyond. I think you’ll like what you see.
Scott
March 25, 2011 at 11:09 am
Cool. I assume that 2011 attendees will get the 2011 materials, but not the 2010 materials, correct?
March 25, 2011 at 11:12 am
Correct.
Scott
March 25, 2011 at 11:48 am
@Thanks
March 25, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Is there video also of last years presentation?
March 25, 2011 at 12:17 pm
No video from last year, sorry. It’s something we’ve considered, but producing quality video (with corresponding audio) without infringing on the quality of the presentation for those who are present is not simple. If you have experience with this or can point us to somebody who does, please let us know.
Scott
March 27, 2011 at 2:37 am
Thanks for the reply.
From where I am sitting it would seem like a good idea to make and release old video, even if it was just low quality video or even if it was just the audio.
That way you would reach a bigger audience and make a bit of money off of the tail. It might even be good PR for for next years event. I think TED.com and Microsoft PDC makes more money off of tickets to the event, now that they release the video for free.
(Personally I never attend any C++ conferences but I would be willing to pay 25 bucks for video)
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers
March 27, 2011 at 10:36 am
We’ll look into recording options for this year’s C&B, but, speaking only for myself, my preference is to do the job right (i.e., produce something of high quality) or not do it at all. Whatever we do, it’s important to me that it not detract from the experience of the people who are present at C&B.
March 28, 2011 at 9:07 am
Scott,
pls keep in mind all of us who live outside of the US - we will never get a chance to see you guys live, and dodgy quality is much preferable to nothing at all.
If you think the audio/video is too low quality to sell, pls consider making it available for free. but whichever way, pls make it available.
thank you very much for all your work.
March 28, 2011 at 2:28 pm
I can’t make any promises regarding whether we’ll offer recordings, but I can promise that we’ll look into it. If there’s a way to do it that won’t disrupt the event itself, that isn’t too much work to organize, and that won’t drive us into financial ruin, I’m all for it, and I’m sure that Andrei and Herb would be, too.
April 1, 2011 at 7:11 am
I would like to attend it. However, as others expressed, I might not be able to attend as I live outside US. But surely, I will be ready to pay the charges to attend it live virtually. Or optionally, it’d be better if I can download the videos afterwards at certain charges.
~Yogesh
April 5, 2011 at 6:48 am
Hello Scott
Is there a students discount available on this? I know $25 is already quite subsidized but it’ll be brilliant if we can have a few copies for educational purposes!
April 5, 2011 at 8:27 am
There’s no special student discount, sorry, but there’s what I consider to be a pretty generous volume discount schedule that starts at 10 copies. Details are at http://www.artima.com/shop/volume_discounts .
Scott