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Advanced C++

By : Gazihan Alankus, Olena Lizina, Rakesh Mane, Vivek Nagarajan, Brian Price
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Book Image

Advanced C++

5 (1)
By: Gazihan Alankus, Olena Lizina, Rakesh Mane, Vivek Nagarajan, Brian Price

Overview of this book

C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages and is applied in a variety of domains, right from gaming to graphical user interface (GUI) programming and even operating systems. If you're looking to expand your career opportunities, mastering the advanced features of C++ is key. The book begins with advanced C++ concepts by helping you decipher the sophisticated C++ type system and understand how various stages of compilation convert source code to object code. You'll then learn how to recognize the tools that need to be used in order to control the flow of execution, capture data, and pass data around. By creating small models, you'll even discover how to use advanced lambdas and captures and express common API design patterns in C++. As you cover later chapters, you'll explore ways to optimize your code by learning about memory alignment, cache access, and the time a program takes to run. The concluding chapter will help you to maximize performance by understanding modern CPU branch prediction and how to make your code cache-friendly. By the end of this book, you'll have developed programming skills that will set you apart from other C++ programmers.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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6. Streams and I/O

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about types in C++. Firstly, we touched on the built-in types and then learned how to create our own types that behave like the built-in types. We learned how to declare and initialize variables, got a glimpse of what the compiler generates from the source, where it puts variables, how the linker puts it together, and then what that looks like in the computer's memory. We learned some of the C++ tribal wisdom around the Rule of Zero and the Rule of Five. These form the building blocks of C++. In the next chapter, we will look at creating functions and classes with C++ templates and explore further type deduction as it applies to templates.