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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

Designing functions


Often functions will act upon global data, or data passed in by the caller. It is important that when the function completes, it leaves this data in a consistent state. Equally so, it is important that, the function can make assumptions about the data before it accesses it.

Pre- and post-conditions

A function will typically alter some data: values passed into the function, data returned by the function, or some global data. It is important when designing a function that you determine what data will be accessed and changed and that these rules are documented.

A function will have pre-conditions, assumptions about the data that it will use. For example, if a function is passed a filename, with the intention that the function will extract some data from the file, whose responsibility is it to check that the file exists? You can make it the responsibility of the function, and so the first few lines will check that the name is a valid path to a file and call operating system...