C++ in One Hour a Day, Sams Teach Yourself - Softcover

Rao, Siddhartha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137334680 ISBN 13: 9780137334681

Publisher: Sams Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Learn C++ programming at your own pace―Covers modern C++ 20

Starting with one hour a day, you can gain all the skills you need to begin programming in C++. This complete tutorial will help you quickly master the basics of object-oriented programming and teach you advanced C++ language features and concepts. Fully updated for the C++20 standard, this practical book is designed to help you write C++ code that's faster, simpler, and more reliable and master the fundamentals of C++ and object-oriented programming.

• No programming experience required: start writing well-organized, efficient C++ programs quickly!
• Apply proven Do's and Don'ts to leverage best practices and avoid pitfalls from day one
• Test your knowledge and expertise with focused exercises after every lesson
• Simplify your code using automatic type deduction and other features
• Accelerate learning using nearly 300 code samples explained within
• Preview improvements expected in C++23

Lessons

Part I - The Basics: Using Variables, Declaring Constants; Arrays and Strings; Expressions, Statements, and Operators; Controlling Program Flow; Functions; Pointers and References

Part II - Fundamentals of Object-Oriented C++ Programming: Classes and Objects; Implementing Inheritance; Polymorphism; Operator Types and Operator Overloading; Casting Operators; Macros and Templates

PART III - Learning the Standard Template Library (STL): The STL String Class; STL Dynamic Array Classes; STL list and forward_list; STL set and multiset; STL map and multimap

PART IV: Lambda Expressions and STL Algorithms: Function Objects; Lambda Expressions;

About this title

About the Author

Siddhartha Rao is the vice president in charge of product security at SAP SE, the world’s most trustworthy supplier of enterprise software and cloud services. A software engineer at heart, Siddhartha is convinced that the rapid evolution of C++ has powered this age of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Features introduced by C++20 enable you to program simpler yet more powerful applications than ever before. In authoring this book, Siddhartha has taken care to ensure that this book’s nearly 300 compiling code examples are accompanied by detailed analyses of how they work.

Siddhartha looks forward to your comments, reviews, and feedback!

Edition details

• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137334680
• ISBN 13: 9780137334681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 848