Mastering C++ Programming

375 Pages·2017·26.794 MB·English

by  Swaminathan

Mastering C++ Programming
Modern C++ 17 at your fingertips
Jeganathan Swaminathan
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Mastering C++ Programming
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About the Author
Jeganathan Swaminathan, Jegan for short, is a freelance software consultant and founder of
TekTutor, with over 17 years of IT industry experience. In the past, he has worked for
AMD, Oracle, Siemens, Genisys Software, Global Edge Software Ltd, and PSI Data Systems.
He has consulted for Samsung WTD (South Korea) and National Semiconductor
(Bengaluru). He now works as a freelance external consultant for Amdocs (India). He works
as freelance software consultant and freelance corporate trainer. He holds CSM, CSPO,
CSD, and CSP certifications from Scrum Alliance. He is a polyglot software professional
and his areas of interest include a wide range of C++, C#, Python, Ruby, AngularJS, Node.js,
Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Java technologies. He is well known for JUnit,
Mockito, PowerMock, gtest, gmock, CppUnit, Cucumber, SpecFlow, Qt, QML, POSIX –
Pthreads, TDD, BDD, ATDD, NoSQL databases (MongoDB and Cassandra), Apache Spark,
Apache Kafka, Apache Camel, Dockers, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery
(CD), Maven, Git, cloud computing, and DevOps. You can reach him for any C++, Java, Qt,
QML, TDD, BDD, and DevOps-related training or consulting assignments. Jegan is a
regular speaker at various technical conferences.
I would like to extend my special thanks to the book's editor, Anurag Ghogre, for his
tireless efforts to bring this book to completion, and Denim Pinto for approaching me to
write this book.
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debugging, and implementing identity management solutions for many enterprise
customers for both on-premise and cloud solutions. He worked as a technical reviewer on
the Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook by Packt Publishing. Previously, he worked as a
Web Site/Web Application Developer designing and developing websites and internal web
applications for various enterprise customers. He holds a B.S. in computer engineering and
an M.S. in computer science.
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This book is dedicated to my wife, Meenakshi, and my lovely children, Nitesh and Sriram.
Table of Contents
Preface
1
Chapter 1: C++17 Features
8
C++17 background 8
What's new in C++17? 9
What features are deprecated or removed in C++17? 10
Key features in C++17 10
Easier nested namespace syntax 10
New rules for type auto-detection from braced initializer list 12
Simplified static_assert 13
The std::invoke( ) method 14
Structured binding 15
If and Switch local scoped variables 16
Template type auto-deduction for class templates 17
Inline variables 18
Summary 19
Chapter 2: Standard Template Library
20
The Standard Template Library architecture 20
Algorithms 21
Iterators 21
Containers 24
Functors 24
Sequence containers 26
Array 26
Code walkthrough 27
Commonly used APIs in an array 27
Vector 29
Code walkthrough 30
Commonly used vector APIs 31
Code walkthrough 32
Pitfalls of a vector 33
List 33
Commonly used APIs in a list 36
Forward list 36
Code walkthrough 38
Commonly used APIs in a forward_list container 38