Advanced C++ Development Techniques

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C++ is the standard language for implementing object-oriented designs, but although based on C, C++ introduces many subtle syntactic and design issues. For developers whose C++ experience goes back further, many of the changes as a result of standardisation make standard C++ a very different programming environment.

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  • C++
  • IT
  • IT Development

Course programme

Evolution of Standard C++

  • ISO C++
  • Changes to the core language
  • Overview of the standard library

C++ and OO Refresher

  • Abstraction and encapsulation
  • Composition and association
  • Inheritance and polymorphism
  • Patterns and idioms

Copying and Conversions

  • The staticcast, dynamiccast, constcast and reinterpretcast keyword casts
  • Logical vs physical const-ness and the mutable keyword
  • Converting constructors and the explicit keyword
  • User defined conversion operators
  • Copy construction and assignment

Scope

  • Static class members
  • The Singleton pattern
  • Nested classes
  • Nested class forward declarations
  • The Cheshire Cat idiom
  • Namespaces

Delegation Techniques

  • The Object Adapter pattern
  • The Null Object Pattern
  • The Proxy pattern
  • Overloading the member access operator
  • Smart pointers
  • The Template Method pattern
  • Factory objects

Subscripting Techniques

  • Overloading the subscript operator
  • Overloading with respect to const-ness
  • Smart references
  • Multi-dimensional subscripting
  • Associative containers

Template Functions

  • Using and implementing generic algorithms with template functions
  • Overloading and specialising template functions
  • Template instantiation and linkage

Template Classes

  • Using and implementing generic types with templates classes
  • Multiple template parameters
  • The standard vector, list, pair, and map template classes

Iterators and Algorithms

  • The need for Iterators
  • The standard library (STL) iterator model
  • Generic algorithms using iterators
  • STL algorithm pitfalls
  • Introduction to function objects

Exception Handling

  • Classifying and handling exceptions
  • Catching and throwing exceptions
  • The standard exception class hierarchy
  • Uncaught exceptions
  • Strategies for handling exceptions

Exception Safety

  • Resource acquisition idioms for exception safety
  • Exceptions in constructors
  • Exceptions in destructors
  • Exception safe classes
  • STL exception safety guarantees

Memory Management

  • Object life cycle
  • Allocation failure
  • Customising memory allocation
  • Optimising allocation for a class through caching
  • Derivation safe allocation
  • Controlling timing of construction and destruction

Reference Counting

  • Reference counting shared representation
  • Reference counted strings for copy optimisation
  • Subscripting issues
  • Smart pointers for simple, automatic garbage collection

Inheritance Techniques

  • Subtyping vs subclassing
  • Abstract and concrete base classes
  • Inheritance scoping issues
  • Multiple inheritance
  • Virtual base classes
  • Interface classes
  • Mixin classes
  • Runtime type information (RTTI)
  • Private and protected inheritance
  • The Class Adapter pattern

Template Techniques

  • Templating on precision
  • Template adapters
  • Default template parameters
  • Template specialisation
  • Trait classes
  • Member templates
  • Non-type template parameters
  • Optimising template code space

Functional Abstraction

  • Traditional callbacks using function pointers
  • The Command pattern
  • More on function objects
  • Member function pointers

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