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The C++ Programmer's Mindset

You're reading from   The C++ Programmer's Mindset Learn computational, algorithmic, and systems thinking to become a better C++ programmer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835888421
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Thinking Computationally 2. Abstraction in Detail FREE CHAPTER 3. Algorithmic Thinking and Complexity 4. Understanding the Machine 5. Data Structures 6. Reusing Your Code and Modularity 7. Outlining the Challenge 8. Building a Simple Command-Line Interface 9. Reading Data from Different Formats 10. Finding Information in Text 11. Clustering Data 12. Reflecting on What We Have Built 13. The Problems of Scale 14. Dealing with GPUs and Specialized Hardware 15. Profiling Your Code 16. Unlock Your Exclusive Benefits 17. Other Books You May Enjoy 18. Index

Implementing the clustering algorithm

Our implementation has several pieces. The main piece is the implementation of the -means clustering algorithm. The second piece is the logic to increase (or decrease) the number of clusters until the fit is satisfying. The third piece is to transform the latitude-longitude coordinates into three-dimensional space so that the clustering can be done. This is the first piece that we shall tackle since it is quite straightforward. The logic for setting the number of groups is certainly the hardest part, but we can’t test this until we have the -means algorithm working.

Before we get started, we need to make some changes to our CMakeLists.txt and add new files to the clustering folder of our project. First, we create clustering/CMakeLists.txt, which will define the library target and the tests for this component of the project. This CMakeLists.txt should contain the following code:

add_library(ducky_clustering
  clustering.h
  clustering...
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