C++ 17 Standard Library (Boost) training course

Introduction

• Overview of History of C++ Language
• Introduction to C++11/C++14 and C++17
• New features summary
• Current compiler support

C++11 onward Features

• Type inference (‘auto’)
• ‘decltype’ and ‘constexpr’
• ‘nullptr’
• Alternative ‘for’
• Improved ‘string’
• RValue Reference and move semantics
• Initialization improvements
• Initializer lists
• Uniform initialization
• Pre-processor refinements
• Strongly typed enums
• Type Traits
• Exception Safety and use of ‘noexcept’
• Alignment

Class Features

• Improved/simplified class definition
• Use of ‘override’, ‘final’, ‘default’, ‘delete’
• Delegating Constructors
• Inheriting Constructors

Template Features

• Improved Template support
• Discussion of Template and Auto type deduction
• Alias Templates
• Variadic Templates
• ‘extern’ templates
• Template Templates
• Variable Templates

C++11 Function Syntax

• Lambda functions
• Alternative function syntax and ‘Function’

 

Standard Template Library Fundamentals

• Review fundamentals of Standard Library
• Containers and Container Adapters
• Iterators and Iterator Adapters
• Algorithms (Including use of algorithms to avoid use of conventional loops)
• Function Objects (Functors)
• Lambda Functions vs Functors
• Idioms of STL and Boost Library

STL New Features

• Some older Standard Library Features are now deprecated.  Review newer alternatives.
• Smart Pointers
• New Binding capabilities
• Revised Iterators
• Containers (Hash tables; tuple; etc.)
• Regular Expressions

Memory Model

• Threading and Synchronization
• Creating and terminating threads
• Synchronisation (Mutexes and Atomic operations)
• Thread Local Storage
• Tasks using ‘async’ and ‘future’

C++14 SPECIFIC Features

• Generic Lambdas
• Initialised Lambda capture
• Relaxed ‘constexpr’ restrictions

C++17 FEATURES

• The demonstration and usage of some these features may depend upon available compiler support! Review latest C++ features Initialization statements within selection statements constexpr if Fold expressions Attributes string_view Splicing maps and sets Miscellaneous other small features! Algorithms Library – Execution Policies Sequential and parallel policies Parallel Algorithms