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Mastering C++ Programming

By : Swaminathan

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Mastering C++ Programming

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By: Swaminathan

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Overview of this book

C++ ? ?has ? ?come ? ?a ? ?long ? ?way ? ?and ? ?has ? ?now ? ?been ? ?adopted ? ?in ? ?several ? ?contexts. Its ? ?key ? ?strengths ? ?are ? ?its ? ?software ? ?infrastructure ? ?and ? ?resource-constrained applications. ? ?The ?C++ ? ?17 ? ?release ? ?will ? ?change ? ?the ? ?way ? ?developers ? ?write code, ? ?and ? ?this ? ?book ? ?will ? ?help ?you ? ?master ? ?your ? ?developing ? ?skills ? ?with ? ?C++. With ? ?real-world, ? ?practical ? ?examples ? ?explaining ? ?each ? ?concept, ? ?the ? ?book ? ?will begin ? ?by ? ?introducing ? ?you ? ?to ? ?the ? ?latest ? ?features ? ?in ? ?C++ ? ?17. ? ?It ? ?encourages clean ? ?code ? ?practices ? ?in ? ?C++ ? ?in ? ?general, ? ?and ? ?demonstrates ? ?the ? ?GUI app-development ? ?options ? ?in ? ?C++. ? ?You’ll ? ?get ? ?tips ? ?on ? ?avoiding ? ?memory ? ?leaks using ? ?smart-pointers. ? ?Next, ? ?you’ll ? ?see ? ?how ? ?multi-threaded ?programming can ? ?help ? ?you ? ?achieve ? ?concurrency ? ?in ? ?your ? ?applications. Moving ? ?on, ? ?you’ll ? ?get ? ?an ? ?in-depth ? ?understanding ? ?of ? ?the ? ?C++ ? ?Standard Template ? ?Library. ? ?We ? ?show ? ?you ? ?the ? ?concepts ? ?of ? ?implementing ? ?TDD ? ?and BDD ? ?in ? ?your ? ?C++ ? ?programs, ? ?and ? ?explore ? ?template-based ? ?generic programming, ? ?giving ? ?you ? ?the ? ?expertise ? ?to ? ?build ? ?powerful ? ?applications. Finally, ? ?we’ll ? ?round ? ?up ? ?with ? ?debugging ? ?techniques ? ?and ? ?best ? ?practices.By ? ?the ? ?end ? ?of ? ?the ? ?book, ? ?you’ll ? ?have ? ?an ? ?in-depth ? ?understanding ? ?of ? ?the language ? ?and ? ?its ? ?various ? ?facets.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

C++17 Features

C++17 background

What's new in C++17?

Key features in C++17

Summary

Standard Template Library

The Standard Template Library architecture

Sequence containers

Associative containers

Container adapters

Summary

Template Programming

Generic programming

Summary

Smart Pointers

Memory management

Issues with raw pointers

Smart pointers

Summary

Developing GUI Applications in C++

Qt Core

Qt Widgets

Layouts

Signals and slots

Using stacked layout in Qt applications

Summary

Multithreaded Programming and Inter-Process Communication

Introduction to POSIX pthreads

Creating threads with the pthreads library

Does C++ support threads natively?

How to write a multithreaded application using the native C++ thread feature

Using std::thread in an object-oriented fashion

Synchronizing threads

Concurrency

Summary

Test-Driven Development

TDD

Common myths and questions around TDD

Unit testing frameworks for C++

Google test framework

TDD in action

Summary

Behavior-Driven Development

Behavior-driven development

TDD versus BDD

C++ BDD frameworks

The Gherkin language

Installing cucumber-cpp in Ubuntu

Feature file

Spoken languages supported by Gherkin

The recommended cucumber-cpp project folder structure

Writing our first Cucumber test case

Dry running your cucumber test cases

BDD - a test-first development approach

Summary

Debugging Techniques

Effective debugging

Debugging strategies

Debugging tools

Summary

Code Smells and Clean Code Practices

Code refactoring

Code smell

What is agile?

SOLID design principle

Code smell

Summary

Introduction to POSIX pthreads

Unix, Linux, and macOS are largely compliant with the POSIX standard. Portable Operating System Interface for Unix (POSIX) is an IEEE standard that helps all Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that is Linux and macOS, communicate with a single interface.

Interestingly, POSIX is also supported by POSIX-compliant tools--Cygwin, MinGW, and Windows subsystem for Linux--that provide a pseudo-Unix-like runtime and development environment on Windows platforms.

Note that pthread is a POSIX-compliant C library used in Unix, Linux, and macOS. Starting from C++11, C++ natively supports threads via the C++ thread support library and concurrent library. In this chapter, we will understand how to use pthreads, thread support, and concurrency library in an object-oriented fashion. Also, we will discuss the merits of using native C++ thread support...

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