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 Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804617830

Length 604 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (5):

Araks Tigranyan

Shunguang Wu

John Asatryan

Marcelo Guerra Hahn

Vardan Grigoryan

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

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

2. Chapter 1: Building C++ Applications FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming

4. Chapter 3: Understanding and Designing Templates

5. Chapter 4: Template Meta Programming

6. Chapter 5: Memory Management and Smart Pointers

7. Part 2: Designing Robust and Efficient Applications

8. Chapter 6: Digging into Data Structures and Algorithms in STL

9. Chapter 7: Advanced Data Structures

10. Chapter 8: Functional Programming

11. Chapter 9: Concurrency and Multithreading

12. Chapter 10: Designing Concurrent Data Structures

13. Chapter 11: Designing World-Ready Applications

14. Chapter 12: Incorporating Design Patterns in C++ Applications

15. Chapter 13: Networking and Security

16. Chapter 14: Debugging and Testing

17. Chapter 15: Large-Scale Application Design

18. Part 3:C++ in the AI World

19. Chapter 16: Understanding and Using C++ in Machine Learning Tasks

20. Chapter 17: Using C++ in Data Science

21. Chapter 18: Designing and Implementing a Data Analysis Framework

22. Index

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