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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Summary

In this chapter, we discussed generic programming-related topics in C++. Starting by reviewing C macros and function overloading, we introduced the development motivations of C++ templates. Then, we presented the syntax of class and function templates with a fixed number of parameters, as well as their specializations and instantiations. Since C++11, variadic templates are accepted by the standard generic function and class templates. Based on this, we further classified the template parameters and arguments into three categories: non-type template parameters/arguments, type template parameters/arguments, and template template parameters/arguments.

We also learned about traits and TMP. As a byproduct of template specialization, traits classes can provide us with more information about types. With the help of type information, eventually, the optimizations of implementing generic algorithms become possible. Another application of class and/or function templates is to compute...