Introduction to C++11 Programming — A 5 day course

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Synopsis

This five day course is aimed at developers who are new to C++ and wish to learn modern C++ using the most common and useful features of C++11 such as auto, lambdas and move semantics.

Contents

Background to C++

• The Standard Template Library
• Namespaces
• Exercises

Standard Template Library

• Strings
• Vectors
• Iterators
• Maps
• Iostreams
• Other types

Classes

• Private and public members
• Member functions
• Uniform initialisation
• Constructors
• Destructors
• References
• Static members
• Exercises

Further Techniques with Functions

• Prototypes
• Linkage
• Overloading
• Ambiguity
• Default Arguments
• Lambdas
• Exercises

Managing Memory

• New and delete
• Object copying
• Copy constructor
• Assignment operator
• The this pointer
• Move semantics
• Exercises

Inheritance

• Simple inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Object slicing
• Base initialisation
• Virtual functions
• Exercises

Operator Overloading

NB: this is a brief introduction

• Operator functions
• I/O operators
• Friends
• Member operators
• Conversions
• Exercises

Templates

• Introduction
• Template classes
• Declaration and instantiation
• Template functions
• Specialisation
• Variadic templates
• Exercises

Exception Handling

• Purpose and simple use
• Exceptions and derived classes
• Function exception declarations
• Unexpected exceptions
• Exceptions when handling exceptions
• Resource capture and release
• Exercise and review

Worked solutions to all exercises

Suitable For

This C++11 training course is suitable for programmers with a knowledge of some other programming language who will be developing applications in C++11.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of some other programming language such as Java, C# or C.