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Subject: C++ Grandmaster Certification (www.cppgm.org) 
Keywords: c++, c++11, linux, x86-64, compilers, mooc, course 

1st Feb 2013 - San Francisco, CA - It was announced today by 
the newly formed CPPGM Foundation (www.cppgm.org) that the 
C++ Grandmaster Certification is now open for enrollment. 

The C++ Grandmaster Certification is a massively open free 
online course (MOOC) for expert C++ programmers. It 
provides the most rigorous C++-specific qualification 
possible. 

Participants in the course will demonstrate their 
comprehensive knowledge of C++ by writing their own fully 
functional ISO C++11 standard compliant C++ compiler, C++ 
standard library and toolchain - including a preprocessor, 
assembler, and linker - targeting the Linux operating 
system and x86-64 architecture. 

The toolchain will be written entirely in standard C++. No 
third-party tools or libraries will be used. 

As a grand finale the participant will build their 
toolchain with itself (a self-hosting build) and pass the 
conformance test with it. 

Enrollments are open now and close 15th Feb, 2013. The 
course will commence shortly after in the spring. For more 
details and to enroll visit the course web site at: 

http://www.cppgm.org 

For press information contact support@cppgm.org 

ABOUT CPPGM: 

The CPPGM Foundation was formed by a software company that 
recognized the value to programmer productivity that a good 
knowledge of language mechanics had to new developers to 
their team. The C++ Grandmaster Certification began 
development as an internal training program, and the 
foundation was founded to offer it publicly. 

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