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Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development

By : Richard Grimes, Marius Bancila
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Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development

By: Richard Grimes, Marius Bancila

Overview of this book

C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages. It is fast, flexible, and used to solve many programming problems. This Learning Path gives you an in-depth and hands-on experience of working with C++, using the latest recipes and understanding most recent developments. You will explore C++ programming constructs by learning about language structures, functions, and classes, which will help you identify the execution flow through code. You will also understand the importance of the C++ standard library as well as memory allocation for writing better and faster programs. Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development deals with the challenges faced with advanced C++ programming. You will work through advanced topics such as multithreading, networking, concurrency, lambda expressions, and many more recipes. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have all the skills to become a master C++ programmer. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Beginning C++ Programming by Richard Grimes • Modern C++ Programming Cookbook by Marius Bancila • The Modern C++ Challenge by Marius Bancila
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
12
Math Problems
13
Language Features
14
Strings and Regular Expressions
15
Streams and Filesystems
16
Date and Time
17
Algorithms and Data Structures
Index

Templates


Classes can be templated, which means that you can write generic code and the compiler will generate a class with the types that your code uses. The parameters can be types, constant integer values, or variadic versions (zero or more parameters, as provided by the code using the class). For example:

    template <int N, typename T> class simple_array 
    { 
        T data[N]; 
    public: 
        const T* begin() const { return data; } 
        const T* end() const { return data + N; } 
        int size() const { return N; } 

        T& operator[](int idx)  
        { 
            if (idx < 0 || idx >= N) 
                throw range_error("Range 0 to " + to_string(N)); 
            return data[idx]; 
        }  
    };

Here is a very simple array class that defines the basic iterator functions and the indexing operator, so that you can call it like this:

    simple_array<4, int> four; 
    four[0] = 10; four[1] = 20; four[2] = 30; four[3] = 40; 
    for(int...