Information Technology

Advanced C++

Instructor-Led 9 Agenda

Description

This course begins with advanced C++ concepts by helping you decipher the sophisticated C++ type system and understand how various stages of compilation convert source code to object code. You'll then learn how to recognize the tools that need to be used in order to control the flow of execution, capture data, and pass data around. By creating small models, you'll even discover how to use advanced lambdas and captures and express common API design patterns in C++. As you cover later lessons, you'll explore ways to optimize your code by learning about memory alignment, cache access, and the time a program takes to run. The concluding lesson will help you to maximize performance by understanding modern CPU branch prediction and how to make your code cache-friendly.

Course Overview

Course Objective

By the end of this course, you'll have developed programming skills that will set you apart from other C++ programmers. After completing this course, you will be able to: Delve into the anatomy and workflow of C++ Study the pros and cons of different approaches to coding in C++ Test, run, and debug your programs Link object files as a dynamic library Use templates, SFINAE, constexpr if expressions and variadic templates Apply best practice to resource management

Who Should Attend

If you have worked in C++ but want to learn how to make the most of this language, especially for large projects, this course is for you.

Anatomy of Portable C++ Software Lesson Id 1

Anatomy of Portable C++ Software

No Ducks Allowed – Types and Deduction Lesson Id 2

No Ducks Allowed – Types and Deduction

No Ducks Allowed – Templates and Deduction Lesson Id 3

No Ducks Allowed – Templates and Deduction

No Leaks Allowed – Exceptions and Resources Lesson Id 4

No Leaks Allowed – Exceptions and Resources

Separation of Concerns – Software Architecture, Functions, and Variadic Templates Lesson Id 5

Separation of Concerns – Software Architecture, Functions, and Variadic Templates

The Philosophers' Dinner – Threads and Concurrency Lesson Id 6

The Philosophers' Dinner – Threads and Concurrency

Streams and I/O Lesson Id 7

Streams and I/O

Everybody Falls, It's How You Get Back Up – Testing and Debugging Lesson Id 8

Everybody Falls, It's How You Get Back Up – Testing and Debugging

Need for Speed – Performance and Optimization Lesson Id 9

Need for Speed – Performance and Optimization

Lesson Id	Title	Description
1	Anatomy of Portable C++ Software	Managing C++ Projects<br />Writing Readable Code
2	No Ducks Allowed – Types and Deduction	C++ Types<br />Creating User Types<br />Structuring our Code
3	No Ducks Allowed – Templates and Deduction	Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Interfaces<br />Templates – Generic Programming<br />Type Aliases – typedef and using<br />Class Templates
4	No Leaks Allowed – Exceptions and Resources	Exceptions in C++<br />RAII and the STL<br />Move Semantics<br />Name Lookup<br />Caveat Emptor
5	Separation of Concerns – Software Architecture, Functions, and Variadic Templates	Function Objects and Lambda Expressions<br />Variadic Templates
6	The Philosophers' Dinner – Threads and Concurrency	Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Threaded Execution<br />Review Synchronization, Data Hazards, and Race Conditions<br />Future, Promises, and Async
7	Streams and I/O	File I/O Implementation Classes<br />String I/O Implementation<br />I/O Manipulators<br />Making Additional Streams<br />Using Macros
8	Everybody Falls, It's How You Get Back Up – Testing and Debugging	Assertions<br />Unit Testing and Mock Testing<br />Understanding Exception Handling<br />Breakpoints, Watchpoints, and Data Visualization
9	Need for Speed – Performance and Optimization	Performance Measurement<br />Runtime Profiling<br />Optimization Strategies<br />Cache Friendly Code