C++ Seminar

In Spring 2012, I offered a one-hour-per-week seminar on "advanced" C++, focusing on the new C++11 standard. It has finished. Thank you to all of you who enthusiastically participated in the seminar.

Materials from the offering:

C++ usage has changed drastically over the past ten years with much more advanced use of templates, meta-programming, functors, and other high-level concepts becoming common. Last year, a new C++ standard (C++11, formerly C++0x) was released with many new and exciting changes to the language that follow these trends.

Each week had programming examples, collected below. At the end are the links to useful information around the web.

Topics:

General notes on C++ examples

Week	Date	Topic	Files
1	Apr 4	C++11 overview, easy useful changes: >>, nullptr, std::array, range-based for, auto, decltype, begin & end	Original C++03 simpmat version, C++11 simpmat version, Final C++11 simpmat version, C++11 auto keyword examples, C++11 range-based for examples
2	Apr 11	move semantics: r-value references, move constructor / operator=, use in STL	Original C++03 wordset version, "words" file read by wordset, Original C++03 movetst version, C++11 wordset version, C++11 movetst version C++11 rrefex
3	Apr 18	More on constructors: compiler-made constructors/destructors/assignments, initializer lists, deligation, inheriting, =default, =delete	implicit methods example, wordset11.cc, first changes, initializer list example, wordset11.cc with init lists, last example
4	Apr 25	Prefer direct obj to ptrs, shared_ptr, unique_ptr, weak_ptr	memory leak example, memory leak example, part 2, memory leak example, fix w/o ptrs, memory leak example, fix w/ ptrs, temp obj lifetime example, nullptr example, unique/shared ptr example txt file for mem leak example txt file for ptr example
5	May 2	functors, lambda functions, currying, closures	sortwords example, findword example, unique/shared ptr example w/ lambdas, std::function example, parallel-array for-each example
6	May 9	STL: hash tables, random, use with functors/lambda fns	emplace example, lz78 hash table example, random number example
7	May 16	timers, raw string literals, unicode support, regex	timer example, unicode and raw string example, user-defined literals example, regular expression example 1, regular expression example 2
8	May 23	concurrency support in C++11	Basic thread example, async & futures example, bank account, no mutex, bank account, mutexes, bank account, locks, bank account, multiple mutexes, parallel primality, parallel primality, thread pool
9	May 30	perfect forwarding, variadic templates	motivating perfect forwarding example, motivating perfect forwarding example v2, motivating perfect forwarding example v3, forwarding example, variadic templates example 1, variadic templates example 2, multidimensional array example (fixed), memoizing header, memoized fib, memoized shortest path
10	Jun 6	constexpr, SFINAE	constexpr version of prime, example of SFINAE, TMP version of prime (incorrect), TMP version of prime (correct), TMP version of print
C++11 things I didn't get to			text file list

Resources

• C++11 support in gcc
• Matrix of compiler support for many C++11 features
• Scott Meyer's notes on C++11
• Scott Meyer's C++ books
• Wikipedia article on C++11
• Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ on C++11
• Stroustrup's notes on the rvalue, lvalue, glvalue, prvalue, xvalue terminology
• new C++ value taxonomy (and changes to standard)
• How to use C++11 on department machines
• good discussion of why noexcept was added to C++11
• Sutter's description of how C++ programming changes under C++11
• STL reference, including C++11
• MSDN's regex documentation
• good introduction to SFINAE