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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

Containers


The Standard Library containers allow you to group together zero or more items of the same type and access them serially through iterators. Every such object has a begin method that returns an iterator object to the first item and an end function that returns an iterator object for the item after the last item in the container. The iterator objects support pointer-like arithmetic, so that end() - begin() will give the number of items in the container. All container types will implement the empty method to indicate if there are no items in the container, and (except for forward_list) the size method is the number of items in the container. You are tempted to iterate through a container as if it is an array:

    vector<int> primes{1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13}; 
    for (size_t idx = 0; idx < primes.size(); ++idx)  
    { 
        cout << primes[idx] << " "; 
    } 
    cout << endl;

The problem is that not all containers allow random access, and if you decide it...