C++ Development: Advanced Concepts, Lambda Expressions, and Best Practices

Introduction

• About this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Operator Overloads

• Operator overloads
• Nonmember operators
• Conversion operators
• Increment and decrement operators
• Functors

2. Move Semantics

• What is move semantics?
• Understanding lvalues and rvalues
• Using std::move
• The move constructor
• The move assignment operator
• The copy-and-swap idiom
• Rule of three and five

3. Lambda Expressions

• Lambda syntax
• Closures
• Algorithm predicates
• Challenge: A Lambda jump table

4. Constraints and Concepts

• Why constraints?
• Constraint syntax
• Defining concepts

5. Optionals and Variants

• The optional class
• The any class
• The variant class

6. Concurrency

• Sleeping
• Threads
• The async function
• Mutex and lock
• Atomic variables
• The producer-consumer idiom

7. Other Subjects

• Initialization
• Structured bindings
• Random number engines
• The chrono library
• The filesystem library

8. Other C++20 New Features

• The format library
• The spaceship operator
• Integer comparisons
• The span class

Final Project and Conclusion

• Final project: Numword
• Thank you