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Expert C++

By : Vardan Grigoryan, Shunguang Wu
Book Image

Expert C++

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

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the details of program execution. We discussed functions and the main() function with some of its special properties. We found out how the recursion works and that the main() function cannot be called recursively.

As C++ is one of the few high-level languages that supports low-level programming concepts such as accessing memory bytes by their address, we studied how data resides in the memory and how can we incorporate pointers in accessing that data. Understanding these details is a must for a professional C++ programmer.

Lastly, we touched on the topic of conditionals and loops from the perspective of an assembly language. Throughout the chapter, we introduced C++20 features.

In the next chapter, we will learn more about object-oriented programming (OOP), including the inner details of the language object model. We will dive into the details...