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Expert C++

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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Further reading

You can refer to the following book for more information on the topics covered in this chapter: C++ High Performance, by Viktor Sehr and Bjorn Andrist (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1787120953).

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Authors (2)

Grigoryan

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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Wu

Wu

Shunguang Wu is a senior professional staff at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and received his PhDs in theoretical physics and electrical engineering from Northwestern University (China) and Wright State University (USA), respectively. He published about 50 reviewed journal papers in the area of nonlinear dynamics, statistical signal processing and computer vision in his early career. His professional C++ experience started with teaching undergraduate courses in the late 1990s. Since then he has been designing and developing lots of R&D and end-user application software using C++ in world-class academic and industrial laboratories. These projects span both the Windows and Linux platforms.

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