Duration

• 5 * 1/2 day or 3 * 1 day

Accompanying literature

• Each participant gets one of my digital or printed books.

Method

• Theory and praxis with many exercises. You get the source code and the solutions to the exercises.
• You need a computer with at least a C++11 compiler.

Objectives

• Learn the safe usage of modern C++.
• Write modern C++ code by using the proven guidelines.

Standard

• C++11/14/17 standard

Content

Key principles

• Understand what are the ideas of KISS, YAGNI, DRY, and SOLID.

Best practices for software development

The C++ Core Guidelines provides rules for essential aspects of modern software development:

• Philosophy
• Interfaces
• Functions
• Classes and class hierarchies
• Enumerations
• Resource management
• Expressions and statements
• Performance
• Concurrency
• Error Handling
• Constants and Immutability
• Templates and Generic Programming
• C-Style programming
• The standard library

Patterns and Idioms

• Inheritance versus Composition
• Proxy
• Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII)
• Factory method
• Singleton
• Run- versus compile-time Polymorphism
• Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP)

Testing

• Test hierarchy
• Characteristics of good unit tests
• Unit tests
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Refactoring

• Key ideas
• Code smells
• Tool support

Tool support

• Important online compiler
• Sanitizers
• Compiler Explorer
• C++ Insights
• Guidelines Support Library

Conditions of participation:

The general terms and conditions are found in the GT&C.