Mastering C++ Programming by Swaminathan, Jeganathan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Errata Piracy Questions

C++17 Features

C++17 background What's new in C++17?

What features are deprecated or removed in C++17?

Key features in C++17

Easier nested namespace syntax New rules for type auto-detection from braced initializer list Simplified static_assert The std::invoke( ) method Structured binding If and Switch local scoped variables Template type auto-deduction for class templates Inline variables

Summary

Standard Template Library

The Standard Template Library architecture

Algorithms Iterators Containers Functors

Sequence containers

Array

Code walkthrough Commonly used APIs in an array

Vector

Code walkthrough Commonly used vector APIs Code walkthrough Pitfalls of a vector

List

Commonly used APIs in a list

Forward list

Code walkthrough Commonly used APIs in a forward_list container

Deque

Commonly used APIs in a deque

Associative containers

Set

Code walkthrough Commonly used APIs in a set

Map

Code walkthrough Commonly used APIs in a map

Multiset Multimap Unordered sets Unordered maps Unordered multisets Unordered multimaps

Container adapters

Stack

Commonly used APIs in a stack

Queue

Commonly used APIs in a queue

Priority queue

Commonly used APIs in a priority queue

Summary

Template Programming

Generic programming

Function templates

Code walkthrough

Overloading function templates

Code walkthrough

Class template

Code walkthrough

Explicit class specializations

Code walkthrough

Partial template specialization

Summary

Smart Pointers

Memory management Issues with raw pointers Smart pointers

auto_ptr

Code walkthrough - Part 1 Code walkthrough - Part 2

unique_ptr

Code walkthrough

shared_ptr

Code walkthrough

weak_ptr

Circular dependency

Summary

Developing GUI Applications in C++

Installing Qt 5.7.0 in Ubuntu 16.04

Qt Core

Writing our first Qt console application

Qt Widgets

Writing our first Qt GUI application

Layouts

Writing a GUI application with a horizontal layout Writing a GUI application with a vertical layout Writing a GUI application with a box layout Writing a GUI application with a grid layout

Signals and slots Using stacked layout in Qt applications

Writing a simple math application combining multiple layouts

Summary

Multithreaded Programming and Inter-Process Communication

Introduction to POSIX pthreads Creating threads with the pthreads library

How to compile and run

Does C++ support threads natively? How to write a multithreaded application using the native C++ thread feature

How to compile and run

Using std::thread in an object-oriented fashion

How to compile and run

What did you learn?

Synchronizing threads

What would happen if threads weren't synchronized? How to compile and run Let's use mutex How to compile and run What is a deadlock? How to compile and run

What did you learn?

Shared mutex Conditional variable How to compile and run

What did you learn?

Semaphore

Concurrency

How to compile and run Asynchronous message passing using the concurrency support library

How to compile and run

Concurrency tasks

How to compile and run

Using tasks with a thread support library

How to compile and run

Binding the thread procedure and its input to packaged_task

How to compile and run

Exception handling with the concurrency library

How to compile and run What did you learn?

Summary

Test-Driven Development

TDD Common myths and questions around TDD

Does it take more efforts for a developer to write a unit test? Is code coverage metrics good or bad? Does TDD work for complex legacy projects? Is TDD even applicable for embedded or products that involve hardware?

Unit testing frameworks for C++ Google test framework

Installing Google test framework on Ubuntu How to build google test and mock together as one single static library without installing? Writing our first test case using the Google test framework Using Google test framework in Visual Studio IDE

TDD in action

Testing a piece of legacy code that has dependency

Summary

Behavior-Driven Development

Behavior-driven development TDD versus BDD C++ BDD frameworks The Gherkin language Installing cucumber-cpp in Ubuntu

Installing the cucumber-cpp framework prerequisite software Building and executing the test cases

Feature file Spoken languages supported by Gherkin The recommended cucumber-cpp project folder structure Writing our first Cucumber test case

Integrating our project in cucumber-cpp CMakeLists.txt Executing our test case

Dry running your cucumber test cases BDD - a test-first development approach

Let's build and run our BDD test case It's testing time!

Summary

Debugging Techniques

Effective debugging Debugging strategies Debugging tools

Debugging your application using GDB

GDB commands quick reference

Debugging memory leaks with Valgrind

The Memcheck tool

Detecting memory access outside the boundary of an array Detecting memory access to already released memory locations Detecting uninitialized memory access Detecting memory leaks Fixing the memory leaks Mismatched use of new and free or malloc and delete

Summary

Code Smells and Clean Code Practices

Code refactoring Code smell What is agile? SOLID design principle

Single responsibility principle Open closed principle Liskov substitution principle Interface segregation Dependency inversion

Code smell

Comment smell Long method Long parameter list Duplicate code Conditional complexity Large class Dead code Primitive obsession Data class Feature envy

Summary

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