Lecture Slides for Programming in C++ (Version 2018-02-15): The C++ Language, Libraries, Tools, and Other Topics

Michael D. Adams

Feb 2018 · Michael Adams

About this ebook

This document, which consists of over 2000 lecture slides, offers a wealth of information on many topics relevant to programming in C++, including coverage of the C++ language itself, the C++ standard library and a variety of other libraries, numerous software tools, and an assortment of other programming-related topics.  The coverage of the C++ language and standard library is current with the C++17 standard.

C++ PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE.  Many aspects of the C++ language are covered from introductory to more advanced.  This material includes: the preprocessor, language basics (objects, types, values, operators, expressions, control-flow constructs, functions, and namespaces), classes, templates (function, class, variable, and alias templates, variadic templates, template specialization, and SFINAE), lambda expressions, inheritance (run-time polymorphism and CRTP), exceptions (exception safety and RAII), smart pointers, memory management (new and delete operators and expressions, placement new, and allocators), rvalue references (move semantics and perfect forwarding), concurrency (memory models, and happens-before and synchronizes-with relationships).

C++ STANDARD LIBRARY AND VARIOUS OTHER LIBRARIES.  Various aspects of the C++ standard library are covered including: containers, iterators, algorithms, I/O streams, time measurement, and concurrency support (threads, mutexes, condition variables, promises and futures, atomics, and fences).  A number of Boost libraries are discussed, including the Intrusive, Iterator, and Container libraries.  The OpenGL library and GLSL are discussed at length, along with several related libraries, including: GLFW, GLUT, and GLM.  The CGAL library is also discussed in some detail.

SOFTWARE TOOLS.  A variety of software tools are discussed, including: static analysis tools (e.g., Clang Tidy), code sanitizers (e.g., ASan, UBSan, and TSan), debugging and testing tools (e.g., Catch2), performance analysis tools (e.g., Perf, PAPI, Gprof, and Valgrind/Callgrind), build tools (e.g., CMake and Make), and version control systems (e.g., Git).

OTHER TOPICS.  An assortment of other programming-related topics are also covered, including: data structures, algorithms, computer arithmetic (e.g., floating-point arithmetic and interval arithmetic), cache-efficient algorithms, vectorization, good programming practices, and software documentation.

Ratings and reviews

This book is very helpful to me for learning C++. If anyone is interested in learning C++, I would strongly recommend to read this book. It summarized many important features and concepts in C++ and provided many good examples to help illustrating those concepts. Before when I started to learn C++ by reading the C++11 Programming Language book written by Bjarne Stroustrup before I got many questions and confusions, (it is a good book but I think it is more suitable for senior C++ programmer), while most of the confusions have been resolved after I read this book. I think this book can bring significant benefit people who is interested in learning C++, especially for the beginners or who is in the junior or mid-level. I also recommended many of my friends to read this book and all of them speaks highly of it.

This slides is very useful for students who are going to use C++ heavily. You can find almost all the important features of C++. Moreover, it also introduce the new features of C++ 14 and 17. This slides can not only be a simple textbook but also can be a tool book if anyone want to find any feature of C++.

This sets of slides prepared by Dr. Adams is an extremely helpful asset for anybody learning C++. It extensively covers many useful topics for both C++ and robust programming, and includes plentiful examples throughout.