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Expert C++ - Second Edition

By : Marcelo Guerra Hahn, Araks Tigranyan, John Asatryan, Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu
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Book Image

Expert C++ - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Marcelo Guerra Hahn, Araks Tigranyan, John Asatryan, Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu

Overview of this book

Are you an experienced C++ developer eager to take your skills to the next level? This updated edition of Expert C++ is tailored to propel you toward your goals. This book takes you on a journey of building C++ applications while exploring advanced techniques beyond object-oriented programming. Along the way, you'll get to grips with designing templates, including template metaprogramming, and delve into memory management and smart pointers. Once you have a solid grasp of these foundational concepts, you'll advance to more advanced topics such as data structures with STL containers and explore advanced data structures with C++. Additionally, the book covers essential aspects like functional programming, concurrency, and multithreading, and designing concurrent data structures. It also offers insights into designing world-ready applications, incorporating design patterns, and addressing networking and security concerns. Finally, it adds to your knowledge of debugging and testing and large-scale application design. With Expert C++ as your guide, you'll be empowered to push the boundaries of your C++ expertise and unlock new possibilities in software development.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1:Under the Hood of C++ Programming
7
Part 2: Designing Robust and Efficient Applications
18
Part 3:C++ in the AI World

Introduction to AI

The simplest definition of AI is robots acting like humans. It is the intelligence demonstrated by machines. And this is where the discussion around the definition of intelligence comes in: how can we define it for machines, and at what level should we shout out loud that we are dealing with an intelligent machine?

If you are not familiar with the different tests we can use to verify the intelligence of a machine, one of the popular ways to do so is the Turing test. The idea is to have an interrogator asking questions to two people, one of them being a machine and the other a human. If the interrogator can’t make a clear distinction between those two, the machine should be considered intelligent.

Note

The Turing test is named after Alan Turing. The test was introduced in his paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in 1950. He proposed using the imitation game to determine whether a machine thinks like a human.

The people being interrogated...