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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

Introduction to AI

The simplest definition of AI is robots acting like humans. It is the intelligence demonstrated by machines. And here goes the discussion around the definition of intelligence. 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 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.

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...