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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786461629

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Valgrind

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Jeganathan Swaminathan

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. C++17 Features FREE CHAPTER

2. Standard Template Library

3. Template Programming

4. Smart Pointers

5. Developing GUI Applications in C++

6. Multithreaded Programming and Inter-Process Communication

7. Test-Driven Development

8. Behavior-Driven Development

9. Debugging Techniques

10. Code Smells and Clean Code Practices

Introduction to POSIX pthreads

Unix, Linux, and macOS are largely compliant with the POSIX standard. Portable Operating System Interface for Unix (POSIX) is an IEEE standard that helps all Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that is Linux and macOS, communicate with a single interface.

Interestingly, POSIX is also supported by POSIX-compliant tools--Cygwin, MinGW, and Windows subsystem for Linux--that provide a pseudo-Unix-like runtime and development environment on Windows platforms.

Note that pthread is a POSIX-compliant C library used in Unix, Linux, and macOS. Starting from C++11, C++ natively supports threads via the C++ thread support library and concurrent library. In this chapter, we will understand how to use pthreads, thread support, and concurrency library in an object-oriented fashion. Also, we will discuss the merits of using native C++ thread support...

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Authors (1)

Swaminathan

Jeganathan Swaminathan, Jegan for short, is a freelance software consultant and founder of TekTutor, with over 17 years of IT industry experience. In the past, he has worked for AMD, Oracle, Siemens, Genisys Software, Global Edge Software Ltd, and PSI Data Systems. He has consulted for Samsung WTD (South Korea) and National Semiconductor (Bengaluru). He now works as a freelance external consultant for Amdocs (India). He works as freelance software consultant and freelance corporate trainer. He holds CSM, CSPO, CSD, and CSP certifications from Scrum Alliance. He is a polyglot software professional and his areas of interest include a wide range of C++, C#, Python, Ruby, AngularJS, Node.js, Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Java technologies. He is well known for JUnit, Mockito, PowerMock, gtest, gmock, CppUnit, Cucumber, SpecFlow, Qt, QML, POSIX Pthreads, TDD, BDD, ATDD, NoSQL databases (MongoDB and Cassandra), Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Camel, Dockers, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Maven, Git, cloud computing, and DevOps. You can reach him for any C++, Java, Qt, QML, TDD, BDD, and DevOps-related training or consulting assignments. Jegan is a regular speaker at various technical conferences.

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