Instructor-Led Red Hat Training
Advanced C++
5 days
This hands-on course introduces object-oriented programming in C++ including C++ class construct, scope and access control mechanisms, polymorphism and virtual functions, the Standard Template Library, and I/O streams. Other topics include virtual functions, polymorphism, memory management, function and operator overloading, STL, RTTI, and practical issues, such as reliability, testing, efficiency, and interfacing to C.
What you will learn:
- C++ language constructs
- Supported data types
- C++ program layout and design
- Console I/O routines and operators
- Definition and use of classes
- Function interaction with class objects
- Sharing data with called routines
- Accessing files and records
- The use of the Standard Template Library
- Modern C++ features and how to apply them in production systems
- To become proficient in advanced C++ topics such as templates, concurrency, object-oriented design, and performance optimization
- To apply best practices for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable C++ code
- To develop the skills necessary to analyze, optimize, and troubleshoot complex C++ applications
Course Outline
Standard Library Containers and Iterators
- Introduction to Containers
- Introduction to Iterators
- Introduction to Algorithms
- Sequence Containers
- Associative Containers
- Container Adapters
- Class bitset
Standard Library Algorithms
- Minimum Iterator Requirements
- Lambda Expressions
- Algorithms
- Function Objects
- Standard Library Algorithm Summary
Exception Handling
- Exception-Handling Flow of Control; Defining an Exception Class
- Rethrowing an Exception
- Stack Unwinding
- When to Use Exception Handling
- noexcept: Declaring Functions That Do Not Throw Exceptions
- Constructors, Destructors and Exception Handling
- Processing new Failures
- Class unique_ptr and Dynamic Memory Allocation
- Standard Library Exception Hierarchy
Introduction to Custom Templates
- Class Templates
- Function Template to Manipulate a Class-Template Specialization Object
- Nontype Parameters
- Default Arguments for Template Type Parameters
- Overloading Function Templates
Custom Templatized Data Structures
- Always Prefer the Standard Library’s Containers, Iterators and Algorithms, if Possible
- Self-Referential Classes
- Linked Lists
- Stacks
- Trees
Class string and String Stream Processing
- string Assignment and Concatenation
- Comparing strings
- Substrings
- Swapping strings
- string Characteristics
- Finding Substrings and Characters in a string
- Replacing Characters in a string
- Inserting Characters into a string
- Conversion to Pointer-Based char* Strings
- Iterators
- String Stream Processing
- C++ Numeric Conversion Functions
Searching and Sorting
- Searching Algorithms
- Linear Search
- Binary Search
- Sorting Algorithms
- Insertion Sort
- Selection Sort
- Merge Sort (A Recursive Implementation)
Bits, Characters, C Strings and structs
- Structure Definitions
- typedef and using
- Example: Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation
- Bitwise Operators
- Bit Fields
- Character-Handling Library
- C String-Manipulation Functions
- C String-Conversion Functions
- Search Functions of the C String-Handling Library
- Memory Functions of the C String-Handling Library
Preprocessor
- #include Preprocessing Directive
- #define Preprocessing Directive: Symbolic Constants
- #define Preprocessing Directive: Macros
- Conditional Compilation
- #error and #pragma Preprocessing Directives
- Operators # and ##
- Assertions