If you just want to browse the example code you can load up the following website:
It will present a directory structure that you can browse. You may need to browse into several directory levels before you get to some C++ source files. Here’s an example:
You will need to download the source if you want to build it locally on your machine. Github provides at least two ways to do this. If you want to browse the code on your own computer you can download the code repository as a ZIP file (as mentioned by @shensley in another post in this thread) or you can use the git
tool to download the code to your computer.
For background, git
is a tool that’s used to track changes to a code base. I’m not sure how much software development you have done in your career, but git
is the newest member of the family of tools that include svn
/Subversion, bzr
/Bazaar, Perforce, Visual Sourcesafe, cvs
, rcs
, and sccs
.
If you familiar with any of the other tools above for version-control, you may know that they operate with a server that stores the code. Github is a publicly available server that works with git
.
I hope that helps clear a couple things up!