C++ Advanced Training Course

Highlights

• Learn to use Language Features Correctly

• Gain an introduction to metaprogramming

• Understand how Templates work with functions

• Explore C++ Idioms and Design Patterns

• Understand smart pointers

• Learn Policy-Based Design

• Exploit Advanced Language & Library Features of C++ And Get Increased Productivity

• Apply Containers: Sequence and Associative containers and Adapters

• Learn Standard Template Library with concept based programming 

• Explore Boost and The Boost Libraries

Course Details

Part 1: Using Language Features Correctly

Const and Casting

• Const correctness

• Overloading on const

• C++ cast operators

• Mutable

Conversions and Scope

• Standard conversions

• Converting constructors

• User defined conversions

• Namespaces

• Koenig lookup

• Nested types

• Static

Proper Exception Handling

• Throwing and catching correctly

• Exception safe code

Memory Management

• The new handler

• Placement new

• Overloading new and delete

Part 2: Templates

Template Functions

• What are templates?

• Implementing template functions

• Template instantiation

Template Classes

• Creating a template class

• Class instantiation

• Non-type template parameters

• Specialization

Template Metaprogramming

• A brief introduction to metaprogramming

Part 3: C++ Idioms and Design Patterns

Implementing Value Types

• What are value types?

• Construction and destruction

• Copying and assignment

• Operator overloading

The Handle/body Idiom

• The Bridge design pattern

• Using Bridge to decouple compilation

• Implementing handle/body

Functors

• What are functors?

• Implementing functors using operator overloading

Smart Pointers

• What are smart pointers?

• Uses of smart pointers in C++

• Implementing a simple smart pointer

• Reference counting and smart pointers

• Std::auto_ptr (deprecated)

Singletons

• The Singleton design pattern

• A naïve implementation

• Problems with Singleton in C++

• Controlling Singleton lifetime

Policy-Based Design

• Efficient library design

• Mixing templates and multiple inheritance

• Policies and policy classes

Part 4: Standard Template Library

STL concepts

• Concept-based programming

• Containers, iterators and algorithms

Containers

• Sequence containers

• Associative containers

• Adapters

Traits

• The need for traits

• Implementation of traits in STL

Iterators

• The Iterator design pattern

• Iterator concepts in C++

• Iterators and containers

• Implementing and using iterators

• Stream iterators

Algorithms

• The STL standard algorithms

• Creating and using algorithm

Part 5: The Boost Libraries

Introduction to Boost

• What is Boost?

• Obtaining and installing Boost

• Overview of the Boost libraries

Common Boost Libraries

• boost::tuple

• boost::any

• boost::ref

• The Boost smart pointers

• boost::bind

Who Should Attend

Experienced C++ programmers, who are looking to gain advanced skills and programming techniques using C++