Transitioning to Modern C++ (C++11/14/17)

Course category
C++ Training Courses
Training area
Programming Languages
Course code
AC++11-401
Duration
4 days
Additional information
Available for on-site delivery only. Can be delivered remotely or Face-to-Face.

This four-day course introduces the new features of Modern C++ and how they relate to the previous incarnation, C++98.

The C++11 standard marks a fundamental change to the C++ language. Bjarne Stroustrup, originator of C++, refers to it as “feeling like a completely new language”. The course looks at some of the changes to the language and how they affect the way we write C++ code. 

The course covers C++11, C++14 and C++17 and where relevant refers to C++20.

Course objectives:

  • Provide a background into the C++ features that have changed
  • Provide an overview of the new language features
  • Understand how the new features change C++ programming style
  • Give practical experience of the new features
  • Give the confidence to apply these new concepts to your next project

Delegates will learn:

  • The new extensions to the C++ language
  • Some of the performance impacts of the new features
  • The extensions to the Standard Template Library
  • Some of the new Standard Libraries
  • An introduction to the new C++ threading model

Pre-requisites:

This course is not intended to be a comprehensive C++ course and it is expected that students will already have a solid working knowledge of C++98, in particular.

  • Object Oriented design
  • RAII
  • The Standard Template Library

Who should attend? 
This course is aimed at experienced C++ developers who want to quickly understand the new facilities of C++11.

Duration:

  • Four days

Course materials:

  • Delegate manual

Course workshop: 

At least 50% of the course is hands-on exercises. Students will be programming on a platform environment, either Windows or Linux, using an appropriate toolchain.

Simple types

  • Automatic type deduction
  • Constant-expressions
  • Using aliases
  • nullptr

Constructing objects

  • Class definition and objects
  • Cascading constructors
  • Default constructors
  • Brace initialisation syntax
  • Initializer lists

Sequence containers

  • std::array and std::vector
  • Allocators
  • Iterators
  • Range-for

Associative containers

  • std::tuple
  • std::unordered_map

Specialisation

  • Inheritance and substitution
  • Overriding
  • Dynamic polymorphism
  • Pure virtual functions
  • Interfaces
  • Cross-casting

Resource Management

  • Managing object lifetimes
  • The Rule of Three
  • The Copy-Swap idiom

Move Semantics

  • rvalue references
  • Resource pilfering
  • Move constructors
  • The Rule of Four (and a half)

Smart pointers

  • unique_ptr
  • shared_ptr
  • weak_ptr

Template functions

  • Generic functions
  • Type deduction rules
  • The template build mechanism

Template classes

  • Generic classes
  • Templates and polymorphism
  • Policies

Perfect forwarding

  • Meyers’ Universal references
  • Variadic templates

STL Algorithms

  • The algorithm concept
  • Adapters
  • Binding

Function objects

  • Lambdas
  • Generic lambdas
  • std::function

Threading

  • Creating threads
  • Joining and detaching threads
  • Accessing the underlying OS

Atomic types

  • std::atomics
  • The C++ memory consistency model

Mutual Exclusion

  • std::mutex
  • scope-locked idiom
  • Condition variables

Asynchronous tasks

  • Deferred synchronous calls
  • Promises and futures
  • Packaged tasks
  • std::async()

User-defined literals

  • Rom-able classes
  • operator ” ”