C++ Advanced Programming

Developers with a good working knowledge of everyday C++, as from any basic course plus practical experience.

Working knowledge of C++, as from C++ Basic Programming plus practical experience

Module 1. Introduction

Module 2. Compiler Generated Member Functions

• Default constructor 
• Copy constructor 
• Assignment operator
• Single argument constructor
• Resource allocating classes
• Move semantics
• Initializer list constructors

Module 3. Class Members

• Nested types
• Aliases
• Static members
• Const members
• Reference members
• Enum as a member
• Ref qualified methods
• Function pointers and method pointers
• Type inference
• Structured binding

Module 4. Inheritance and Interfaces

• Overrides
• Inheriting constructors
• Multiple inheritance
• Object identity
• Virtual calls from constructor/destructor
• Abstract base classes
• Interface
• Safe downcasting

Module 5. Operator Overloading

• Restrictions
• Member or friend
• Priority/associativity/commutativity
• Increment/decrement operator
• Index operator
• Type converters
• Bool operator
• User defined literals

Module 6. Preprocessor Directives

• Macros
• Conditional compilation
• Include guard
• Conditional compilation
• String operator
• Catenation operator

Module 7. Templates

• Type polymorphism
• Instantiation
• Function templates
• Class templates
• Type and value parameters
• Templates and inheritance
• Specializations and partial specializations
• Static members
• Explicit instantiation requests

Module 8. Exceptions

• Throw
• Exception classes
• Catch
• Exception declarations
• Alternative designs

Module 9. Namespaces

• Declaration
• Nested namespaces
• Alias
• Using and namespaces
• Namespace std
• Unnamed namespaces

Module 10. Copy-Swap and Exception Safety

• Exception Safety
• Copy-Swap for Assignment
• std::swap and std::move
• Copy-Swap for General Use

Module 11. Function Objects

• The function call operator
• Function pointer callback
• Lambda expressions
• The function standard class
• Policy objects
• Event objects

Module 12. Universal Forward References

• Overloading on lvalue/rvalue
• Creating a Forward Reference
• Perfect Forwarding

Module 13. Smart Pointers and Iterators

• Smart Pointers ownership
• Schemes for ownership transfer
• The Standard Library smart pointers
• Iterators
• The Standard Library Iterators
• Range based for

Module 14. Standard Library Containers

• Overview collections and algorithms
• Templated collections in more detail
• The string class
• Iterators
• Data types
• Assessing time and time complexity

Module 15. Miscellaneous Standard Classes (optional)

• Streams library
• Filesystem
• Thread and synchronization classes
• Random numbers
• Regular expressions
• Time