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Programming Fundamentals and Data Structures

Advanced Programming Fundamentals

IMPORTANT!

This topic is only required for those who want to use standard containers (std::vector, std::unordered_map) and std::string, and those who have been explicitly told to study this or just want to learn more.

This topic is an extension of the previous topic of programming fundamentals, focusing on RAII, move semantics, some OOP elements and other C++ features.

Concepts covered:

  • References (&)
  • Methods, this
  • static class members
  • Scopes, destructors
  • Ownership of memory — the idea of RAII
  • std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr
  • Custom std::vector implementation with RAII
  • const parameters and const methods
  • Constructors, copy constructors
  • lvalues and rvalues
  • Move semantics (rvalue references &&, std::move, move constructors)
  • Basic templating
  • Strings: C strings, std::string, std::string_view
  • Function pointers, typedef, auto, decltype
  • Storing data together with functions to implement delegates, std::function