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C++ Expert

This course is designed as a follow on from the C++ 3-day Introduction & 2 day intermediate courses. It is only open to delegates who have completed those courses and preferably used the knowledge gained from them for several months. At the end of this course, delegates will be able to develop complex object-oriented C++ console programs that can take advantage of multi core processors and implement parallelism. The course will also cover efficient C++ programming.

 

Format: 3 Days: Max Capacity 6

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Course Content

 

Composite Data Types

  • Unions

  • Bit structures

  • Structure alignment

 

Functions

  • Calling convention cdecl, fastcall, stdcall & thiscall

  • C calling convention (__cdecl)

  • Standard calling convention (__stdcall)

  • Fasting calling convention (++fastcall)

  • Thiscall

  • Inline functions

 

Dynamic Memory Allocation

  • Memory leakage

  • The new & delete operators

  • Malloc

  • Free

  • Calloc

  • Realloc

  • Placement new operator

 

Pointers

  • Pointers to char

  • Character manipulation routines

  • Strlen()

  • Strcpy() and strncpy()

  • Strcat() and Strncat()

  • Strcmp() and Strncmp()

  • Character test functions

  • Character conversion functions

  • Microsoft & C++11 extentions to character

  • Manipulation routines

  • Tokenising strings with Strtok_s()

  • Null pointers

  • C++11 nullptr

  • Smart pointers (C++11)

 

More Pointers

  • Pointer Arithmetic

  • The void pointer

  • Pointers to functions

  • 64 bit pointers

 

Static Class Members

  • Static class data members

  • Static class member functions

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Multiple Inheritance

  • Constructors & Destructors in multiple inheritance

  • Multiple inheritance from a common base class

  • Alternatives to multiple inheritance

  • Inheritance guidelines

 

Polymorphism

  • Polymorphism - review

  • Virtual functions

  • Virtual destructors

  • Pure virtual functions

  • Abstract base classes

  • Polymorphism guidelines

 

Advanced Constructors & Operator Overloading

  • Copy constructors

  • Move constructors

  • Conversion constructors

  • The explicit keyword

  • Operator overloading

  • Operator =

  • Move assignment

  • Operator +

  • Operator ++

  • Boolean operators

  • Overloading the <<&>> operators

  • Overloading the subscript operator

  • Global operators

 

Introduction to Lambda expressions

  • Pointers to functions review​

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The Boost Library

  • Chapter objectives

  • Boost

  • Boost example

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C++11, C++14, C++17

  • C++11

  • Auto

  • Nullptr

  • Range-based for loops

  • Override and final

  • Strongly typed enums

  • Smart pointers

  • Non-member begin() and end() Lambdas

  • Static_asset and type traits

  • Move semantics

  • Uniform initialisation syntax

  • Deleted and defaulted functions

  • Delegating constructors

  • Threading library

  • C++11 feature list

  • C++14

  • Function return type deduction

  • Alternate type deduction on declaration

  • Relaxed constexpr restrictions

  • Variable templates

  • Aggregate member initialisation

  • Binary literals

  • Digit separators

  • Generic Lambdas

  • Lambda capture expressions

  • The attribute [deprecated]]

  • Shared mutexes and locking

  • Heterogeneous lookup in associative containers

  • Standard user-defined literals

  • Tuple addressing via type

  • Smaller library features

  • C++17

 

Multithreading in C++

  • What is multithreading

  • When to use multiple threads

  • Advantages of multiple threads

  • Disadvantages of multiple threads

  • Creating your own threads

  • Starting threads

  • Identifying threads

  • Start a thread with a lambda

  • Thread synchronisation issues

  • Using a mutex

  • Exceptions and locks

  • Automatic lock management

  • Recursive locking

  • Timed locking

  • Call once

  • Condition variables

  • Atomic types

  • C++11 synchronisation benchmark

  • Semaphore

  • Thread suspend, resume & terminate

  • Thread priority & processor affinity

  • Thread local storage

  • Threading conclusion

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