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Expert C++

By : Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu
5 (1)
Book Image

Expert C++

5 (1)
By: Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu

Overview of this book

C++ has evolved over the years and the latest release – C++20 – is now available. Since C++11, C++ has been constantly enhancing the language feature set. With the new version, you’ll explore an array of features such as concepts, modules, ranges, and coroutines. This book will be your guide to learning the intricacies of the language, techniques, C++ tools, and the new features introduced in C++20, while also helping you apply these when building modern and resilient software. You’ll start by exploring the latest features of C++, and then move on to advanced techniques such as multithreading, concurrency, debugging, monitoring, and high-performance programming. The book will delve into object-oriented programming principles and the C++ Standard Template Library, and even show you how to create custom templates. After this, you’ll learn about different approaches such as test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), and domain-driven design (DDD), before taking a look at the coding best practices and design patterns essential for building professional-grade applications. Toward the end of the book, you will gain useful insights into the recent C++ advancements in AI and machine learning. By the end of this C++ programming book, you’ll have gained expertise in real-world application development, including the process of designing complex software.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Under the Hood of C++ Programming
7
Section 2: Designing Robust and Efficient Applications
17
Section 3: C++ in the AI World

Discovering Qt

Qt evolved over time and at the time of writing this book, its version is 5.14. Its first public prerelease version was announced in 1995. More than two decades have passed and now Qt has a lot of powerful features that are used in almost all platforms, including mobile systems such as Android and iOS. With few exceptions, we can confidently write fully-featured GUI applications in C++ and Qt for all platforms. This is a big game-changer because companies hire smaller teams that specialize in one technology rather than having several teams for each specific platform.

If you are new to Qt, it is strongly recommended that you get familiar with it as much as you can (go to the end of this chapter for book references). Besides the regular components that GUI frameworks provide, Qt also introduces several concepts that are new or neatly implemented in the framework....