C++ Advance Programming – Detailed Course Outline

Section 1 - Templates 

• Template Functions and Classes
  • Instantiation
  • Overloading
  • Specialization
• Working with Templates
  • Member Templates
  • Using export
• STL (Standard Template Library)
  • Containers and Iterators
  • Algorithms

Section 2 - Exception Handling

• Using Exceptions
  • Exception Formats
  • Exception Specifications
  • Unexpected Exceptions
  • Uncaught Exceptions
• Designing with Exceptions
  • Exception Hierarchies
  • Discrimination
  • Using auto_ptr
  • Exceptions thrown from Constructors
  • Exceptions thrown from Destructors
  • Resource Management

Section 3 - Class Design

• Class Design Topics
  • Mutable Data Members
  • Using explicit with Constructors
  • Member Initialization
• Class Design Boilerplate
  • Copy Initialization and Assignment
  • Modifiers and Selectors
  • Clone Functions
• Composite Templates

Section 4 - Object Storage Management

• New and Delete Formats
  • Nothrow Operator new
  • Placement Formats
  • Explicit Destructor Calls
• Class Specific New and Delete
  • Overriding Global Operators
  • Memory Pools
• Reference Counts
  • Design Approach
  • Implementation
  • Copy-on-writes
  • Modifying Existing Classes

Section 5 - RTTI (Run Time Type Identification)

• Why RTTI?
  • Implications for Class Library Design
  • Controlling Object Behaviors
• RTTI Operators
  • dynamic_cast
  • typeid
  • type_info Class

Section 6 - Multiple Inheritance

• Design Concepts
  • Member Initialization
  • Ambiguities
• Multiple Inheritance Patterns
  • Distinct Bases
  • Multiple Inclusion
  • Virtual Bases

Section 7 - Working with C++

• Namespaces
  • Namespace Definitions
  • Unnamed Namespaces
  • Using Directives
  • Using Declarations
  • Namespace Aliases
• C++ Techniques
  • Objects as Return Values
  • Eliminating Temporaries
  • Virtual Constructors
  • Smart Pointers

Lvalue and Rvalue Separation