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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

Chapter 1

  1. The process of making an executable from the source code is called compilation. Compiling a C++ program is a sequence of complex tasks that results in machine code generation. Typically, a C++ compiler parses and analyzes the source code, generates intermediate code, optimizes it, and finally, generates machine code in a file called an object file. An interpreter, on the other hand, doesn't produce machine code. Instead, it executes instructions in the source code line by line.
  2. First, pre-processing, and then the compiler compiles the code by parsing it, performing syntax and semantic analysis, after which an intermediate code is generated. After optimizing the generated intermediate code, the compiler generates the final object file (containing machine code), which can then be linked with other object files.
  3. A pre-processor is intended to process source files...