Write high-level abstractions while retaining full control of the hardware, performances, and maintainability.

Key Features

• Transform your ideas into modern C++ code, with both C++11 and C++17
• Explore best practices for creating high-performance solutions
• Understand C++ basics and work with concrete real-world examples

Book Description

C++ Fundamentals begins by introducing you to the C++ syntax. You will study the semantics of variables along with their advantages and trade-offs, and see how they can be best used to write safe and efficient code. With the help of this book, you'll be able to compile fully working C++ programs and understand how variables, references, and pointers can be used to manipulate the state of the program. Then you'll explore functions and classes — the features that C++ offers to organize a program — and use them to solve more complex problems such as functions and classes. You'll also understand common pitfalls and modern best practices, especially the ones that diverge from the C++98 guideline.

As you advance through the chapters, you'll study the advantages of generic programming and write your own templates to make generic algorithms that work with any type. This C++ book will guide you in fully exploiting standard containers and understanding how to pick the appropriate container for each problem. You will even work with a variety of memory management tools in C++.

By the end of this book, you will not only be able to write efficient code, but also be equipped to improve the readability, performance, and maintainability of your programs using standard algorithms.

What you will learn

• Work with the C++ compilation model and syntaxes
• Apply best practices for writing functions and classes
• Write safe, generic, and efficient code with templates
• Explore the containers that C++ standard offers
• Discover the new paradigms introduced with C++11, C++14, and C++17
• Get to grips with the core language features of C++
• Abstract complex problems using object-oriented programming in C++

Who this book is for

If you're a developer looking to learn a new powerful language or are familiar with C++ but want to update your knowledge with modern paradigms of C++11, C++14, and C++17, this book is for you. To easily understand the concepts in the book, you must be familiar with the basics of programming.