C++ Course

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C++ Course

Contents

• Resources
• Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Resources

• devdocs.io - Online documentation with fuzzy search
• wandbox.org - Online compiler with latest compiler options
• cppinsights.io - Shows how compilers see your code
• Compiler Explorer - Shows assembly for your code
• GDB and LLDB Cheatsheet
• CallumHoward/cpp_workshop.git - Demo code and exercise solutions

Week 1

• Crash course workshop by Callum
  • slides, notes
• Pluralsight (Total 1h)
  1. Course Overview
  2. Understanding C++ in Context
  3. Variables and Fundamental Types
• HackerRank
  • 1 2 3 4
• YouTube - TheChernoProject
  • How C++ Works (20m)
  • Variables (14m)
• Reading
  • Is C++ a dead language? - Callum Howard

Week 2

• Pluralsight (Total <2h)
  1. User Defined Types
  2. Flow Control
  3. Functions
• HackerRank
  • 1 2 3 4 5
• YouTube - TheChernoProject
  • Headers (15m)
  • Functions (10m)
  • Conditions (24m)
  • Loops (13m)
  • Control Flow (9m)
  • Classes (9m)
  • Classes vs. Structs (9m)
  • How to Write a Class (12m)
  • Constructors (7m)

Week 3

• Pluralsight (Total <2h)
  1. Operators
  2. STL - Standard Library Philosophy and Approach
  3. STL - Counting and Finding
• HackerRank
  • 1 2 3 4 5
• YouTube - TheChernoProject
  • How the Compiler Works (18m)
  • How the Linker Works (16m)
  • Static (7m)
  • Static for Classes and Structs (9m)
  • Local Static (8m)
  • Enum (8m)
  • Destructors (5m)
  • Inheritance (8m)
  • Const (13m)
  • Operators and Operator Overloading (13m)

Week 4

• Demo
  • Boxit code
  • Preprocessor cpp hpp
• Pluralsight (Total ~1.5h)
  1. Templates
  2. STL - Sorting
  3. STL - Comparing and Accumulating
• HackerRank
  • 1 2 3 4 5 6*
• YouTube - TheChernoProject
  • Templates (18m)
  • Vectors (14m)
  • Sorting (7m)
  • Namespaces (13m)
  • Member Initialiser List (9m)
  • Visibility (9m)
  • Virtual Functions (7m)
  • Interfaces (7m)

Week 5

• Demo
  • Video: Pointers Intro
  • pointers cpp
  • swap cpp
• Pluralsight (Total <1.5h)
  • Indirection
  • STL - Generating and Manipulating Collections
• HackerRank
  • 1 2 3* 4 5 6 7
• YouTube - TheChernoProject
  • Pointers (17m)
  • References (10m)
  • Arrays (19m)
  • Static (STL) Arrays (11m)
  • Multiple Return Values (18m)
  • The Arrow Operator (8m)
  • The "this" Keyword (6m)
  • Object Lifetime (11m)

Week 6

• Demo
  • vectorSort cpp
  • back_inserter cpp
  • forLoops cpp
  • generator cpp
• Pluralsight (Total ~1h)
  • Memory Management
  • STL - Using the Power of Iterators
• HackerRank
  • 1 2 3 4
• YouTube - TheChernoProject
  • The "new" Keyword (7m)
  • How to Instantiate Objects (13m)
  • Heap vs. Stack (20m)
  • Multidimensional Array (21m)
  • Auto (17m)
• Reading
  • AAA Style (Almost Always Auto)

Week 7

• Demo
  • workshops exercise code with smarter pointers
• Pluralsight (Total <1.5h)
  • Indirection and Inheritance
  • STL - Unexpectedly Useful Operations
  • STL - Conventions
• HackerRank
  • 1 2 3 4
• YouTube - TheChernoProject
  • Smart Pointers (12m)
  • Ternary Operators (8m)
  • Implicit Conversion and the Explicit Keyword (8m)
  • Lambdas (12m)
  • Copying and Copy Constructors (21m)
  • Casting (14m)

Week 8

• Pluralsight (Total <2h)
  • C++ Core Guidelines
  • Updating Legacy Code - What Target Are You Trying to Reach
• HackerRank
  • 1 2 3
• YouTube - TheChernoProject
  • Virtual Destructors (8m)
  • Type Punning (13m)
  • Unions (9m)
  • Timing (11m)

Question 1: - I can't remember if we already covered this. Sorry if we did.
Is there much difference between printf and std::cout? Should we have a preference?
The latter seems more widely used in our examples. But the following was mentioned in one of the above exercises.
"Note: You can also use cin and cout instead of scanf and printf; however, if you are taking a million numbers as input and printing a million lines, it is faster to use scanf and printf."