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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 3

  1. Identity, state, and behavior.
  2. When moving objects instead of copying, we omit the creation of temporary variables.
  3. There aren't any differences between a struct and a class in C++ except the default access modifier. This is public for the struct, and private for the class.
  4. In the case of aggregation, the class that contains an instance or instances of other classes could be instantiated without the aggregate. The composition, on the other hand, expresses strong containment.
  5. Private inheritance hides the inherited members from the client code of the derived class. Protected inheritance does the same, but allows the derived classes in the chain to have access to those members.
  6. Typically, an introduction of a virtual function leads to augmenting the class with addition data members pointing to the table of virtual functions. Usually, that adds up to 4 or 8 bytes...