C++ Development Course

Phase 1 | C++ for beginners

• Introduction to Modern C++ (C++11 and onwards), History of C++, Why is C++ still in demand?

• Essential Resources (Documentation, Online-Tools)

• Data Representation in C++, Built-in Data Types, Variables and Constants

• Statements, Expressions, Operators, Statements vs Expressions, Arithmetic, Relational, Logical, Bitwise Operators, Operator Precedence, Type Conversions

• One- and Multi- Dimensional Arrays, Vectors

• Program Input and Output (Characters and Strings)

• Control Flow in C++, Conditional Statements (if/else, switch-case), Loops ('for', 'while', 'do while', range-based loops)

• Pointers and References ('new'/'delete' Operators)

• Functions: Definition and Declaration, Signature, Return Value, Recursion, Overloading, Default Arguments, How Functions Work, Arguments by Value vs by Reference

• Namespaces

• C++ Program Compilation Stages (Preprocessing, Compilation, Linking)

• Memory Layout in C++ Program (Heap, Stack, Data, Text)

• Exam

• C++ Program with Multiple Header and Source Files (on VS Code Example), Debugging with GDB

Phase 2 | OOP and Generic Programming

• Introduction to OOP (classes and objects)

• Classes and Objects in C++, Member Functions and Variables, 'this' Pointer, 'static' Members

• Encapsulation, Accessibility Scopes: public, protected, private, Class Friends

• Operator Overloading

• Constructors and Destructors, Default Constructor, Destructor, Constructor Overloading

• Inheritance

• Type Casting ('reinterpret', 'dynamic', 'const', 'static', 'c-style')

• Polymorphism (Static vs Dynamic Polymorphism)

• Function Overriding, Virtual Functions, How They Work ('vtable'), Abstract Classes with Pure-Virtual Functions

• Template Functions and Types

• SOLID Principles

• Design Patterns (Singleton, Builder, Composite, Visitor)

• Exam

Phase 3 | Advanced Topics, STL

• C++ Core Guidelines

• Move Semantics

• Introduction to STL

• Associative Containers

• Container Adapters

• Algorithms

• Algorithm Computational and Space Complexity, big-O Notation

• Function Objects

• Lambda Expressions

• Exception Handling ('try'/'throw'/'catch')

• Containers and Iterators

• Introduction to Multithreading (Multithreading Support in C++)

• Exam