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Rustlings-style exercises for C++ using:

• CMake
• doctest
• Sanitizers by default:
  • Address Sanitizer
  • Leak Sanitizer
  • Undefined Behavior Sanitizer

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leissa/cpplings/refs/heads/master/tools/install.sh | bash

Start

cd cpplings
./cpplings

Usage

usage: cpplings [-h] {list,run,verify,watch,watch-all} ...

positional arguments:
  {list,run,verify,watch,watch-all}
    list                List available exercises
    run                 Run a specific exercise
    verify              Verify all exercises
    watch               Watch a specific exercise
    watch-all           Watch all exercises (default)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Final project: a ray tracer

The course concludes with a ray tracer (exercises/05_capstone/P4_raytracer.cpp). It renders 3D scenes of spheres and triangles into a PNG image, with Phong lighting, shadows and mirror reflections — pulling together classes, overloaded operators, inheritance with virtual methods, std::optional, std::unique_ptr and std::vector. See exercises/05_capstone/README.md for details.

cornell.txt	spheres.txt	mirrors.txt
pyramid.txt	example.txt	test.txt

Credits

This tool follows the Modern C++ Programming course by Federico Busato.