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Tuesday May 7th, 2024
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Modern C++ for C++ Programmers
Outline
Basics
- Syntax enhancements
- New types
- New literal constructs
- Variadic macros
- Type-safe enumerations
- 'auto' declarations
- Trailing return types
- Removed and deprecated features
- Compiler support
Uniform Initialisation
- Uniform initialisation syntax
- Aggregate and non-aggregate initialisation
- Adding support for initialiser lists
Range-Based 'for' Loops
- Traversing containers
- Using std::array
- Range-based 'for' loops
- Adding support for range-based traversal
Lambda Functions
- Callable Entities
- Lambda functions
- Parameter and return types
- Variable capture
- Mutable lambdas
Rvalue References & Move Semantics
- Copying temporary objects
- Lvalues and rvalues
- Rvalue references
- Move constructors
- Move assignments
- Other move operations
- Implicit operations
- Standard library support for move semantics
- Inheritance and delegation
- Reference collapsing rules
- Perfect forwarding
Template Enhancements
- The 'using' keyword
- Template instantiation
- Static assertions
- The type traits library
- Conditional objects
- Tuples
- Variadic templates
- Processing parameter packs
Class Enhancements
- Default member initialisation
- Inheriting and delegating constructors
- Controlling and modifying default features
- Override control
Multi-Threading
- Starting threads
- Thread handles
- Thread operations
- Passing arguments to threads
- Retrieving results from threads
- The threading memory model
- Protecting shared data
- Mutexes and locks
- Thread synchronisation
- Condition variables
- Handling Exceptions
- Futures and Promises
- Using async()
- Atomic operations
The Standard Library
- Composition of the standard library
- std::unique_ptr
- Shared pointers and weak pointers
- Unordered containers
- Custom hashing
- Forward lists
- New algorithms
- Regular expressions
Overview
The C++11 standard (formerly called C++0x) increased the power and efficiency of the language with a number of new language constructs and library enhancements. C++14 (formerly called C++1y) is a small extension over C++11, featuring mainly bug fixes, small improvements and generalisation of some C++11 features. C++17 & C++20 add more features to the language.
Of major interest to C++98 programmers are the new rvalue references, unordered containers and the multi-threading library, which enable a number of performance enhancements to be made.
This course covers all the major enhancements to the language and libraries since the C++11 specification and the majority of the other changes.
Participants acquire hands-on experience of the new language features by working through a wide selection of exercises.
Objectives
On successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognise the new features introduced since C++11
- Understand the benefits of the new features
- Write efficient C++17 code utilising the new features
- Utilise the new multi-threading facilities
- Utilise the new features of the Standard Library
Audience
This course is aimed at programmers, analysts, engineers and technical managers who are already proficient in C++ program development and who wish to take advantage of the new features since C++11.
Prerequisites
This course assumes a working knowledge of C++98 up to the level covered in the C++ Programming course.
