C++ Fundamentals for Professionals

Gain insights into professional C++ with essential C++17 standards. Learn about memory management, inheritance, templates, threads, and more to optimize performance and ensure high safety.

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321 Lessons

23h

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Gain insights into professional C++ with essential C++17 standards. Learn about memory management, inheritance, templates, threads, and more to optimize performance and ensure high safety.

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Course Overview

C++ is a common first choice for software developers when optimal performance and high safety are necessary. Learning the rich core language and the many libraries, however, can be a neverending story. This course has one goal: ending that story. This course is a combination of new material and material pulled from my other C++ courses, giving you all the most crucial information in one place. You will learn the necessary information you need to be a professional C++ programmer, including the current C++17...Show More

Course Content

Core Language

Get familiar with C++ history, evolution, and its core features in programming.

History

Literals

Look at literals in C++, including user-defined types, practical examples, and exercises.

Literals

User-Defined Literals

C++14 Built-In Literals

Types

Examine scoped enumerations, pointers, null pointer, and references in C++.

Automatic Type Deduction

Enhance your skills in automatic type deduction, `auto` and `decltype`, and return type inference.

Automatic Type Deduction: auto

Refactorization with auto

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Automatic Type Deduction: decltype

Automatic Return Type

- Example

- Exercise

- Solution

Casts

Dig into explicit casting operators, dynamic casting, static casting, const and reinterpret casting in C++.

Unified Initialization

4 Lessons

Tackle unified initialization in C++ with {}, examples, and exercises on standard containers.

const, constexpr, and volatile

5 Lessons

Build on using `const`, `constexpr`, and `volatile` for efficient, safe, and adaptable C++ code.

Move Semantic and Perfect Forwarding

11 Lessons

Sharpen your skills in C++ move semantics, copy vs. move, and perfect forwarding.

Memory Management

5 Lessons

Look at explicit memory management, RAII principles, and overloading new/delete in C++.

10.

Functions

7 Lessons

Master the steps to function declarations, overloading, and lambda functions in C++.

11.

Classes and Objects

27 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of creating and managing classes and objects in C++.

12.

Inheritance

20 Lessons

Explore inheritance, abstract base classes, access rights, constructor inheritance, virtual methods, and multiple inheritance in C++.

13.

Templates

32 Lessons

Focus on C++ templates for functions, classes, parameters, specialization, and CRTP, enhancing flexibility and code reuse.

14.

Utilities

13 Lessons

Build on C++ utilities covering std::bind, lambda, pairs, tuples, reference wrappers, and type traits.

15.

Smart Pointers

13 Lessons

Learn how to use smart pointers in C++ for efficient memory management and resource handling.

16.

1. Containers in General

6 Lessons

Look at container operations: creation, size determination, element access, assignment, and comparison in C++.

17.

1.1 Sequential Containers

11 Lessons

Examine C++ sequential containers, their functionalities, advantages, and efficient memory usage.

18.

1.2 Associative Containers in General

2 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of C++ associative containers, including insertion and deletion mechanisms.

19.

1.2.1 Ordered Associative Containers

6 Lessons

Take a closer look at C++ ordered associative containers, their keys, comparison criteria, and special search functions.

20.

1.2.2 Unordered Associative Containers

7 Lessons

See how unordered associative containers enhance performance using hash functions in C++.

21.

1. Algorithms

5 Lessons

Approach using STL algorithms and conventions to efficiently manipulate container elements.

22.

1.1 Non-Modifying Algorithms

6 Lessons

Step through non-modifying algorithms for searching, counting, testing, and comparing ranges in C++.

23.

1.2 Modifying Algorithms

11 Lessons

Unpack the core of modifying algorithms to copy, replace, remove, fill, generate, move, swap, transform, reverse, rotate, shuffle, and remove duplicates.

24.

1.3 More Algorithms

10 Lessons

Break apart advanced algorithms for sorting, searching, merging, and numeric operations in C++.

25.

Callables

3 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of callables in C++, including functions, function objects, and lambda functions.

26.

Iterators

5 Lessons

Solve problems in C++ using iterators for efficient container navigation and modification.

27.

Strings

12 Lessons

See how it works with creating, manipulating, and efficiently managing C++ string operations.

28.

Regular Expressions

13 Lessons

Master regular expressions in C++ for text processing, pattern matching, replacing, and formatting.

29.

Input and Output

14 Lessons

Learn how to use C++ streams for efficient I/O, file handling, and data formatting.

30.

Threads

11 Lessons

Discover the logic behind C++ threading, from creation to managing thread lifetimes and synchronization.

31.

Shared Data

16 Lessons

Master the steps to handle shared data, mutexes, locks, and thread-safe initialization in C++.

32.

Tasks

15 Lessons

Enhance your skills in asynchronous tasks, std::async, std::packaged_task, promises, and futures.

33.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Understand how modern C++ advancements benefit embedded, server, gaming, and trading systems.

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