C++: A New Language Starting In 2011

Metadata

• Live-Hacking, and exercise material on Github: 2022-06-14

• Also on Github: entire homepage

Introduction

• History, Background

• A Live-Hacked Tour Around The New C++

Pythonicity (Thank You: Readablility and Writability)

Range Based for Loops

• Range Based for Loops: Introduction

• Case Study: Range Based for On std::map

Tuple Unpacking (err, Structured Binding)

• Tuple Unpacking (Err, Structured Binding)

Duck Typing (err, auto) Without A Duck

• Duck Typing (Err, auto) Without A Duck

Exercise

• Exercise: Bag Of Items, By Copy

Things That Simply Deserved Fixing Since Ages

Brace Initialization

From Brace Initialization (Uniform Initialization)

• Brace Initialization: Introduction

• std::initializer_list: Brace Initialization, Implementor’s View

New OO keywords: override, final, default, delete

• override

• final

• = delete

• = default

Strongly Typed enum

• Strongly Typed enum

Delegating Constructor

• Delegating Constructor

nullptr

• Miscellaneous

Smart Pointers

From Smart Pointers (std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr):

• Introduction

• (Trying To) Handwrite A Smart Pointer Class in C++ Before C++11

• std::unique_ptr

• std::shared_ptr

• std::weak_ptr

• Smart Pointers: Closing Words

Exercise

• Exercise: Bag Of Items, By Unique Reference

• Exercise: Bag Of Items, By Shared Reference

Moving, “RValue References”

• Move Semantics, Rvalue References

Functions (std::bind<>, std::function<>, Lambdas)

From Functions, Functions:

• std::bind

• std::function

From Lambda

• Lambda

• Live Hacking: Handwritten Functors (Too Much Boilerplate)

• Live Hacking: Handwritten Functors, And Capturing By Reference (Pitfalls)

• Lambda: More Capturing

Multithreading

From Multithreading:

• Threads Introduction

• Threads in C++

• Race Conditions

• std::mutex And Friends

• Scoped Locking

• std::atomic

• std::promise and std::future (And Some std::chrono) (Some Live Hacking)

• std::condition_variable (Live Hacking Multithreaded Queue)

Miscellaneous

TODO: Important

Topic	Description
std::any<>, std::optional<>, std::variant<>
vector<>::emplace_back()
forward
array
ref, cref

TODO: Optional

Topic	Description
new containers and algorithms (next to beginning somewhere)
File system library
chrono += how to sleep	Done in various live hacking session on the way; add to slide material
Regular expression library	(Raw) string literal
constexpr, constexpr if (since C++17)