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You're reading from Expert C++ Become a proficient programmer by learning coding best practices with C++17 and C++20's latest features

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838552657

Length 606 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Vardan Grigoryan

Shunguang Wu

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Under the Hood of C++ Programming

2. Introduction to Building C++ Applications FREE CHAPTER

3. Low-Level Programming with C++

4. Details of Object-Oriented Programming

5. Understanding and Designing Templates

6. Memory Management and Smart Pointers

7. Section 2: Designing Robust and Efficient Applications

8. Digging into Data Structures and Algorithms in STL

9. Functional Programming

10. Concurrency and Multithreading

11. Designing Concurrent Data Structures

12. Designing World-Ready Applications

13. Designing a Strategy Game Using Design Patterns

14. Networking and Security

15. Debugging and Testing

16. Graphical User Interface with Qt

17. Section 3: C++ in the AI World

18. Using C++ in Machine Learning Tasks

19. Implementing a Dialog-Based Search Engine

20. Assessments

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Concepts and iterators

C++20 introduces concepts as one of its major features. Along with concepts, C++20 has new iterators based on concepts. Although the iterators discussed in this chapter up to here are now considered legacy features, lots of lines of code have already been written using them. That's why we introduced them first before continuing with the new iterator concepts. Now, let's find out what concepts are and how to use them.

Understanding concepts

Abstraction is essential in computer programming. We introduced classes in Chapter 3, Details of Object-Oriented Programming, as a way to represent data and operations as an abstract entity. After that, in Chapter 4, Understanding and Designing Templates...

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Authors (2)

Grigoryan

Vardan Grigoryan is a senior backend engineer and C++ developer with more than 9 years of experience. Vardan started his career as a C++ developer and then moved to the world of server-side backend development. While being involved in designing scalable backend architectures, he always tries to incorporate the use of C++ in critical sections that require the fastest execution time. Vardan loves tackling computer systems and program structures on a deeper level. He believes that true excellence in programming can be achieved by means of a detailed analysis of existing solutions and by designing complex systems.

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Cheng-Yang Wu has been tackling infrastructure and system reliability since he received his master's degree in computer science from National Taiwan University. His laziness prompted him to master DevOps skills to maximize his efficiency at work so as to squeeze in writing code for fun. He enjoys cooking as it's just like working with software a perfect dish always comes from balanced flavors and fine-tuned tastes.

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