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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

Implementing a Dialog-Based Search Engine

We have come so far in this book! We have learned the fundamentals of C++ application development and discussed architecting and designing world-ready applications. We also dove into data structures and algorithms, which are at the heart of efficient programming. It's now time to leverage all of these skills to design complex software, such as a search engine.

With the popularity of the internet, search engines have become the most in-demand products out there. Most users start their journey through the web from a search engine. Various web search services, such as Google, Baidu, Yandex, and so on, receive huge amounts of traffic, serving trillions of requests daily. Search engines process each request in less than a second. Although they maintain thousands of servers to tackle the load, at the heart of their efficient processing...