Mastering C++ Programming : Modern C++ 17 at your fingertips / Jeganathan Swaminathan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swaminathan, Jeganathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

C++ (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Mastering C plus plus programming

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Swaminathan Jeganathan: 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.

Summary:

Take your C++ coding to the next level by leveraging the latest features and advanced techniques to building high performing, reliable applications. About This Book Get acquainted with the latest features in C++ 17 Take advantage of the myriad of features and possibilities that C++ offers to build real-world applications Write clear and expressive code in C++, and get insights into how to keep your code error-free Who This Book Is For This book is for experienced C++ developers. If you are a novice C++ developer, then it's highly recommended that you get a solid understanding of the C++ language before reading this book What You Will Learn Write modular C++ applications in terms of the existing and newly introduced features Identify code-smells, clean up, and refactor legacy C++ applications Leverage the possibilities provided by Cucumber and Google Test/Mock to automate test cases Test frameworks with C++ Get acquainted with the new C++17 features Develop GUI applications in C++ Build portable cross-platform applications using standard C++ features In Detail C++ has come a long way and has now been adopted in several contexts. Its key strengths are its software infrastructure and resource-constrained applications. The C++ 17 release will change the way developers write code, and this book will help you master your developing skills with C++. With real-world, practical examples explaining each concept, the book will begin by introducing you to the latest features in C++ 17. It encourages clean code practices in C++ in general, and demonstrates the GUI app-development options in C++. You'll get tips on avoiding memory leaks using smart-pointers. Next, you'll see how multi-threaded programming can help you achieve concurrency in your applications. Moving on, you'll get an in-depth understanding of the C++ Standard Template Library. We show you the concepts of implementing TDD and BDD in your C++ programs, and explore template-based generic programming, giving you the expertise to build powerful applications. Finally, we'll round up with debugging techniques and best practices.By the end of the book, you'll have an in-depth understanding of the language and its various facets. Style and approach This straightforward guide will help you level up your skills in C++ programming, be it for enterprise software or for low-latency applications like games. Filled with real-world, practical examples, this book will take you gradually up the steep learning...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: 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&amp

#160

Simplified static_assert&amp

The std::invoke( ) method

Structured binding

If and Switch local scoped variables

Template type auto-deduction for class templates

Inline variables

Summary

Chapter 2: Standard Template Library

The Standard Template Library architecture

Algorithms

Iterators

Containers

Functors

Sequence&amp

containers

Array

Code walkthrough

Commonly used APIs in an array

Vector&amp

Commonly used vector APIs

Pitfalls of a vector

List&amp

Commonly used APIs in a list

Forward list

Commonly used APIs in a forward_list container

Deque

Commonly used APIs in a deque

Associative containers

Set

Commonly used APIs in a set

Map

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

Chapter 3: Template Programming

Generic programming

Function templates

Overloading function templates

Class template

Explicit class specializations

Code walkthrough.

Partial template specialization

Chapter 4: Smart Pointers

Memory management

Issues with raw pointers

Smart pointers

auto_ptr

Code walkthrough - Part 1

Code walkthrough - Part 2

unique_ptr

shared_ptr

weak_ptr

Circular dependency

Chapter 5: Developing GUI Applications in C++

Qt&amp

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

Chapter 6: Multithreaded Programming and Inter-Process Communication

Introduction to POSIX pthreads

Creating threads with the&amp

pthreads library

How to compile and run

Does C++ support threads natively?

How to write a multithreaded application using the native C++ thread feature

Using std::thread in an object-oriented fashion

What did you learn?

Synchronizing threads

What would happen if threads weren't synchronized?

Let's use mutex

What is a deadlock?

Shared mutex

Conditional variable

Semaphore

Concurrency

Asynchronous message passing using the concurrency support library

Concurrency tasks

Using tasks with a thread support library.

How to compile and run

Binding the thread procedure and its input to packaged_task&amp

Exception handling with the concurrency library

Chapter 7: Test-Driven Development

TDD

Common myths and questions around TDD

Does it take more efforts for a developer to write a unit test?&amp

Is code coverage metrics good or bad?

Does TDD work for complex legacy projects?&amp

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

Chapter 8: Behavior-Driven Development

Behavior-driven development

TDD versus BDD

C++ BDD frameworks

The Gherkin language

Installing cucumber-cpp&amp

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!

Chapter 9: 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

Chapter 10: 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

Comment smell

Long method

Long parameter list

Duplicate code

Conditional complexity

Large class

Dead code

Primitive obsession

Data class

Feature envy

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 26, 2017).

OCLC:

1005351392