Exploring C++20: The Programmer's Introduction to C++, Third Edition
- 11h 18m
- Ray Lischner
- Apress
- 2020
Discover everything you need to know about C++ in a logical progression of small lessons that you can work through as quickly or as slowly as you need. This book divides C++ up into bite-sized chunks that will help you learn the language one step at a time. Fully updated to include C++20, it assumes no familiarity with C++ or any other C-based language.
Exploring C++20 acknowledges that C++ can be a complicated language, so rather than baffle you with complex chapters explaining functions, classes, and statements in isolation you’ll focus on how to achieve results. By learning a little bit of this and a little of that you’ll soon have amassed enough knowledge to be writing non-trivial programs and will have built a solid foundation of experience that puts those previously baffling concepts into context.
In this fully-revised third edition of Exploring C++, you’ll learn how to use the standard library early in the book. Next, you’ll work with operators, objects, and data-sources in increasingly realistic situations. Finally, you’ll start putting the pieces together to create sophisticated programs of your own design confident that you’ve built a firm base of experience from which to grow.
What You Will Learn
- Grasp the basics, including compound statements, modules, and more
- Work with custom types and see how to use them
- Write useful algorithms, functions, and more
- Discover the latest C++ 20 features, including concepts, modules, and ranges
- Apply your skills to projects that include a fixed-point numbers and body-mass index applications
- Carry out generic programming and apply it in a practical project
- Exploit multiple inheritance, traits/policies, overloaded functions, and metaprogramming
Who This Book Is For
Experienced programmers who may have little or no experience with C++ who want an accelerated learning guide to C++20 so they can hit the ground running.
About the Author
Ray Lischner has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Caltech and a master's in computer science from Oregon State University. He worked as a software developer for a dozen years, at big and small companies across the US, using PL/I, C, C++, Delphi, Smalltalk, and various assembly languages on both large and small systems. He has been self-employed as a consultant, trainer, and author for the last ten years. Ray taught computer science at Oregon State University for several years and specialized in teaching introductory computer programming. He taught courses in C and C++ and software engineering.
In this Book
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Honing Your Tools
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Reading C++ Code
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Integer Expressions
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Strings
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Simple Input
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Error Messages
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More Loops
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Formatted Output
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Arrays and Vectors
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Algorithms and Ranges
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Increment and Decrement
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Conditions and Logic
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Compound Statements
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Introduction to File I/O
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The Map Data Structure
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Type Synonyms
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Characters
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Character Categories
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Case-Folding
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Writing Functions
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Function Arguments
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Using Ranges
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Using Iterators
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Unnamed Functions
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Overloading Function Names
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Big and Little Numbers
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Very Big and Very Little Numbers
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Documentation
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Project 1: Body Mass Index
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Custom Types
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Overloading Operators
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Custom I/O Operators
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Assignment and Initialization
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Writing Classes
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More About Member Functions
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Access Levels
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Understanding Object-Oriented Programming
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Inheritance
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Virtual Functions
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Classes and Types
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Declarations and Definitions
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Modules
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Old-Fashioned “Modules”
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Function Objects
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Useful Algorithms
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More About Iterators
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Ranges, Views, and Adaptors
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Exceptions
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More Operators
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Project 2: Fixed-Point Numbers
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Function Templates
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Class Templates
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Template Specialization
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Partial Template Specialization
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Template Constraints
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Names and Namespaces
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Containers
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Locales and Facets
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International Characters
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Text I/O
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Project 3: Currency Type
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Pointers
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Regular Expressions
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Moving Data with Rvalue References
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Smart Pointers
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Files and File Names
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Working with Bits
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Enumerations
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Multiple Inheritance
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Concepts, Traits, and Policies
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Names, Namespaces, and Templates
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Overloaded Functions and Operators
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Programming at Compile Time
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Project 4: Calculator
