Dynamic Arrays in C++ (std::vector)

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11:34 Roughly speaking, abstract thinking develops over the years as a programmer which is a good trait so one doesn't have to stay longer into details like this.

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Great stuff! The name confused me too when I first learned about std::vector..

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[@sanjayreddy3295]

It's called a vector because Alex Stepanov, the designer of the Standard Template Library, was looking for a name to distinguish it from built-in arrays. He admits now that he made a mistake, because mathematics already uses the term 'vector' for a fixed-length sequence of numbers. C++11 compounds this mistake by introducing a class 'array' that behaves similarly to a mathematical vector. Alex's lesson: be very careful every time you name something.

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So now we have a class named Vector that behaves kinda like an array and a class named array that behaves kinda like a vector... Indeed, be careful when naming something

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11:30 Thanks for addressing this finally... Coming from C# I saw the method signatures in C++ and thought "are humans supposed to be able to read this"

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Yepp... I was also confused with going from Unity C# vectors... To the C++ version of vectors! XD Nice video!

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at 9:48 if anyone doesn't understand how he initialized the struct you can search for "aggregate initialization".

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Is it bad that instead of watching the video I'm just watching his hands?

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No

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explains pretty much everything

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That is the purpose of the video. The hand gestures are an advanced form of hypnosis that will make you understand vectors better.

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You should mention emplace_back in another video.

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[@nhensonbass]

I know this is about five years later, but another reason I've learned not to store pointers in vectors is that the element can be deleted from the vector leaving a memory leak. If you're using vectors with pointers, be careful.

[@orbyfied]

so i didnt know how the vector class worked, so i created an "ArrayList" class, and i did the exact same thing that the vector class does xD to add an element just create a new array with current size + 1 and copy all of the previous contents into array[0 to size-1] and put the new element into array[size]

[@orbyfied]

@Peterolen i know but it is sort of a simplified version of the vector and ArrayList. It has the same concept behind it

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please make parallel process and simd tutorial

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To think I was modestly learning about pointers and jumped into this rabbit hole.

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Will be glad to see someone trying to rewrite a STL written thing which can be more optimal and more towards the personal use case.

[@sidharthcs2110]

In physics we can represent a vector as a row or column matrix( kinda like a 1d array ). maybe that's why

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[@user-vc2pm5xv7s]

I remember in Bjarne Stroustrup's book, he never talks about raw array, he just went a head and talks about std::vector.

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Can you recommend a book or course that gets more in depth information about behind the scenes of c++?

[@huthayfa1723]

Nice video ; I'm really confused of these vectors in computer science if we needed a dynamic array we would use a linked list . what is the difference between these two ?

[@serkanozturk4217]

Personal Notes: -dynamic size, at the background it has limited memory but when reaches the limit, it creates a bigger sized memory and copies contents to it. - #include - std::vector vertices To add: entities.push_back((1,0,0)) (must be implicit conversion) - can use it in for loop: for(Vertex v: vertices) { //do sth } To prevent copying and being faster, for(Vertex& v: vertices) { //do sth } - to delete 2nd element: vertices.erase(vertices.begin()+1)

[@bies_moron4404]

Good video !!! How we should use inline ? if function are short we should use inline otherwise we shouldn't ?

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[@lizzienovigot]

In linear algebra pne of the basic example of vectors is exactly what programmer would think of as an array or a tuple. So mathematically its quite natural to identify arrays and vectors as being very similar, if not the same thing

[@tannerbarcelos6880]

Yet to understand why my professor decided to teach so much array stuff but said “vectors are the same so I’m gonna skip over them” when in reality, these vectors are beautiful works of art that shit on arrays lol. Simply the fact that they’re dynamic makes life so easy.

[@thelonewolf9866]

Excellent!

[@tahaalkhashmany5678]

does it basically work like dynamic memory allocation with malloc/realloc in c?

[@phantomstriker7996]

Dynamic arrays (mostly std::vector) is an array which can resize. You can push new things into it.

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Good job

[@krood_]

Whats the difference between dynamic array and vector ? are they both the same thing ?

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As a front-end JS dev, 3 days ago I had not a care in the world for performance. Half way through this C++ playlist and my first thought on hearing how this works is 'Damn that must be expensive.' JS seems so basic now lol.

[@michaeldasilva5976]

Hm... While following along after making the Vertex class and attempting to print it to the console using std::cout

[@stewartzayat7526]

I have a question not related to the topic, why are classes in the standard library defined with lowercase identifiers, even though everyone declares classes with camel casing?

[@Moren162]

Please go in to data structures! All other videos is not even close your your quality!

[@georgecristianiordan3712]

Well i would like to see a video with data structures too, youtube lack of quality videos with data structures in c++.....

[@ags0004]

Data structures are supposed to be abstract and language agnostic, unless they need to meet a very specific need. But assuming you are talking about datastructures such as Queues, HashMaps and all that, the implementation is relatively the same. The only thing that might be a little different may be some fine tuning using your knowledge of the language to optimize some bits. But they should work the same way they would in every other language. Knowing how one is implemented in abstract and knowing the language you are going to implement them on is the only thing you need.

[@joriskbos1115]

I was writing a little game in c as a bit of a challenge and I had to write my own dynamic array. The way I did it was that you create it with an initial size, but when it exceeds the size, the size of the array doubles. That way I don't have to reallocate the array every single time I add or remove an element, but I'm also not using up too much memory.

[@sethtaylor7519]

I'm pretty sure that is what vectors do as well.

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All the videos have in common that when you made a question and the answer is: "It depends"

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Please make a video on STL in C++

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[@paul87173]

hey cherno, why dont you use "using namespace std" when you code?

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Nice video bud.

[@jms547]

At 8:50 there's a note about moving rather than copying. Is there a video about this in this series?

[@NoName-tn8rq]

I tried to do this thing for like 4 hours in total, and now i learned there is library that does this. (wasn't able to do it btw, i got stuck on some exceptions and shit)

[@theamjolnir9641]

how do you access vectors of vectors? like in an matrix cause you can't exactly do matrix.assign() to a specific value can you?

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Thanks

[@_CazaBobos]

Can you do something similar in C or just the classic memory allocation commands? Also, if I know the amount that I'm going to insert but it's defined by the user is it correct to declare the array like "Arr[nAmount]"?

[@_CazaBobos]

@Peterolen yes, I know about them. The problem is that not every c compiler accepts the example I wrote in the second paragraph. In some microchips you simply can't give variable length, only memory commands.

[@1Naif]

Awesome.

[@kgravikumar]

Can i use the vectors for struct with different data types

[@jonathanolivier6932]

Good video, but if you have a vector of string, what can you do if you want the first character of a string?

[@akk5830]

Vectors: Matrices consisting of a single column or row. - Wikipedia - Isn't that matching the definition?

[@dhikshithrm]

If i have a pointer to a vector which then moves to a different memory address to due to resize does my pointer automatically point to the new memory address?

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hi could you tell us how to watch a bool vector in debug time?. because l did it for int and strings without problems

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how can we make the function for import series data (around 5000points)?

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[@JohnnyRelentless]

I thought that arrays were pointers, so that you are never really passing the array to the function, but only the pointer, so you wouldn't need to pass by reference. Is it different for dynamic arrays, or am I misunderstanding something?

[@user-kr5uj4jf2u]

A vector is a list of something (numbers for example) (can be in a row or column), A matrix is an array of vectors (one or more rows, one or more columns). More specifiec in Math, A vector is an object that has both a magnitude and a direction represented by numbers...and if you think about it, it is a line in some direction in some dimension that has a list of numbers and has start/end (size/magnitude). So you are little bit wrong, vector is a very good name (: Maybe hard to understand like ArrayList but Yes it makes sense.

[@tablatronix]

How do you init a vector with values, not push after ?

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[@PongPongDudlDu]

Hey Cherno! I got a little question about passing the vector to a subfunction: In the Video at about 12:50 you are passing the vector via Function(vertices); I would have expected a Function(vertices&); to specify it as a pointer or a reference, basically. In C, every array is automatically passed by reference, it will never be copied. Is it in C++ depending on the parameters of the target function as it is a pointer in your example? Would love to hear your answer as I am a C developer and sometimes C++ is still a little strange to me. All the best!