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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

Preface

This book will provide readers with details of C++ programs with regard to the C++17 and C++20 standards, and how they are compiled, linked, and executed. It will also cover how memory management works, what the best practices are as regards memory management problems, what classes are and how they are implemented, how a compiler optimizes code, and what the compiler's approach is in terms of supporting class inheritance, virtual functions, and templates.

The book will also tell readers how to apply memory management, object-oriented programming, concurrency, and design patterns to create world-ready production applications.

Readers will learn the inner details of efficient data structures and algorithms, and will understand how to measure and compare them to choose what fits best for a specific problem.

This book will help readers to incorporate system design skills with essential design patterns into C++ applications.

By way of a bonus, the book also provides an introduction into the AI world, including machine learning basics using the C++ programming language.

By the end of this book, readers should be confident enough to design and architect real-world, scalable C++ applications using efficient data structures and algorithms.