C++ Fundamentals for Professionals

Beginner

321 Lessons

23h

Certificate of Completion

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Course Overview

C++ is a common first choice for software developers when optimal performance and high safety are necessary. Learning the rich core language and the many libraries, however, can be a neverending story. This course has one goal: ending that story. This course is a combination of new material and material pulled from my other C++ courses, giving you all the most crucial information in one place. You will learn the necessary information you need to be a professional C++ programmer, including the current C++17...Show More

Course Content

Core Language

History

Literals

Literals User-Defined Literals

C++14 Built-In Literals Raw and Cooked - Examples - Exercises - Solutions

Types

Scoped Enumerations - Example

Pointers Null Pointer - Examples References

Automatic Type Deduction

Automatic Type Deduction: auto Refactorization with auto - Examples - Exercise - Solution

Automatic Type Deduction: decltype Automatic Return Type - Example - Exercise - Solution

Casts

Explicit Cast

Dynamic Cast Static Cast Const Cast Reinterpret Cast Type Information

Unified Initialization

4 Lessons

const, constexpr, and volatile

5 Lessons

Move Semantic and Perfect Forwarding

11 Lessons

Memory Management

5 Lessons

10.

Functions

7 Lessons

11.

Classes and Objects

27 Lessons

12.

Inheritance

20 Lessons

13.

Templates

32 Lessons

14.

Utilities

13 Lessons

15.

Smart Pointers

13 Lessons

16.

1. Containers in General

6 Lessons

17.

1.1 Sequential Containers

11 Lessons

18.

1.2 Associative Containers in General

2 Lessons

19.

1.2.1 Ordered Associative Containers

6 Lessons

20.

1.2.2 Unordered Associative Containers

7 Lessons

21.

1. Algorithms

5 Lessons

22.

1.1 Non-Modifying Algorithms

6 Lessons

23.

1.2 Modifying Algorithms

11 Lessons

24.

1.3 More Algorithms

10 Lessons

25.

Callables

3 Lessons

26.

Iterators

5 Lessons

27.

Strings

12 Lessons

28.

Regular Expressions

13 Lessons

29.

Input and Output

14 Lessons

30.

Threads

11 Lessons

31.

Shared Data

16 Lessons

32.

Tasks

15 Lessons

33.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Course Author

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