CAUG supports C and C++ users on RISC OS machines. We provide a forum for sharing experience, ideas and opinions. Our membership includes beginners and experts, individuals and companies. The two major RISC OS compiler providers, Acorn and RISC Developments, are both members of CAUG.
What will I get for my money?
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CAUG is a special interest group of the Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU), so if you join you’ll be a member of both. Both publish a bimonthly journal and CAUG produces an occasional disk. If you have an interest in C++ you can also join the C++ special interest group and receive Overload, their bimonthly journal, and disk.
Tell me about CAUG’s journal and disk.
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CAUGers (CAUG’s journal) contains:
Topic Recent examples
Product reviews Easy C, StrongEd
Letters page General problems and opinions
Technical articles Using Fonts, Multitasking window redraws
Hints and tips Debugging WIMP programs
Introductory articles Programming the WIMP
Our disk contains utilities, example code and technical documents. As an example, our first disk contained !TemplEd (a template editor), !AS (an assembler), some simple applications for beginners to explore and descriptions of Acorn’s Clipboard and Drag and Drop protocols, to name a few.
What’s the ACCU?
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The ACCU supports C and C++ users across all platforms. The membership is spread across the world and includes companies such as Microsoft, Borland and Clarion. As well as publishing C Vu, the ACCU organises local meetings, runs C/C++ related tutorials and is involved in the standardisation of the C and C++ languages. C Vu, the ACCU’s journal, contains book reviews, opinions, discussions of portability and standards, programming tutorials and programming challenges. This year C Vu has emphasised the need for quality code.
Will my Bank manager have something to say on the matter?
No. Both CAUG and the ACCU are non-profit making. All of the organisers donate their time; you only pay for the production of the journals and disks, and administration costs. There is also a discount for full-time UK students.
As an example, for a UK resident to join both the ACCU and CAUG for a year currently costs 19 pounds (or 12 pounds for a student). Full details of subscription options are given in the membership form below.
How do I join?
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If this advert has persuaded you to join then simply print out, fill in and send off the membership form below (or contact me for an update if you are reading this after 1st January 1995). If you'd like to know more or would like to be sent a sample copy of CAUGers and C Vu then contact me, Paul Field, at:
Paul Field
Editor of CAUGers
346 Chadwell Heath Lane
Chadwell Heath
Romford
Essex
RM6 4YH
England
Telephone: 081 598 9676
Email: paulf@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (until the end of 1994)