diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0355d1f..62a1bd8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Copyright (C) Artyom V. Poptsov <poptsov.artyom@gmail.com>
   notice and this notice are preserved.
 
 * Unreleased
+** common
+*** Change the Minted style for code examples
+- Add light-gray background and line numbers for Minted code blocks.
 ** en
 *** Dialogues with a computer
 **** Algorithms
diff --git a/src/en/sparc.tex b/src/en/sparc.tex
index 4b7f94d..9c05113 100644
--- a/src/en/sparc.tex
+++ b/src/en/sparc.tex
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@
 \usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
 \addbibresource{references.bib}
 
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%% Set the Minted style.
+
+\definecolor{friendlybg}{HTML}{f0f0f0}
+\setminted[cpp]
+          {
+            style=friendly,
+            bgcolor=friendlybg,
+            linenos
+          }
+
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \setmainfont{Liberation Serif}
 \setmonofont{Liberation Mono}
diff --git a/src/ru/sparc.tex b/src/ru/sparc.tex
index b363c98..ea608da 100644
--- a/src/ru/sparc.tex
+++ b/src/ru/sparc.tex
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@
 \usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
 \addbibresource{references.bib}
 
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%% Set the Minted style.
+
+\definecolor{friendlybg}{HTML}{f0f0f0}
+\setminted[cpp]
+{
+  style=friendly,
+  bgcolor=friendlybg,
+  linenos
+}
+
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \setmainfont{Liberation Serif}
 \setmonofont{Liberation Mono}