Overview of the New C++ (C++11) (original) (raw)

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About the course

Specification of the latest version of C++ (“C++11”) was completed in 2011, and many compilers now offer a wealth of features from the revised language. And such features!auto-declared variables reduce typing drudgery and syntactic noise; Unicode, threading support, and alignment control address important functionality gaps; and rvalue references and variadic templates facilitate the creation of more efficient, more flexible libraries. The standard library gains resource-managing smart pointers, new containers, additional algorithms, support for regular expressions, and more. Altogether, C++11 offers_much_ more than “old” C++. This intensively technical seminar introduces the most important new features in C++11 and explains how to get the most out of them.

That's not all. A feature-complete draft of C++11's successor, "C++14," has now been adopted, and this course also covers select C++14 features. These include deduced function return types; reader/writer locks; and extensions to lambda expressions (auto and variadic parameters, generalized captures). You won't find a more up-to-date examination of the new C++ anywhere!

Detailed topic outline

• The History and Vocabulary of C++ Evolution
• Sample Program: C++98 vs. C++11
• Features for Everybody:
  • auto for Type Declarations
  • Range-Based for Loops
  • “>>” as Nested Template Closer
  • nullptr
  • Enhanced enums
  • Unicode characters and strings
  • Raw string literals
  • Uniform initialization syntax
  • Initializer lists
  • Lambda Expressions
  • Template Aliases
  • Threading Support
  • Library Enhancements:
    * New Container Features
    * Smart Pointers (shared_ptr, weak_ptr,unique_ptr)
    * Hash Tables
    * Singly-Linked Lists
    * Fixed-Size Arrays
    * Tuples
    * Regular Expressions
    * Generalized Functors(function)
    * Generalized Binder (bind)
    * New Algorithms
    * Other New Library Functionality
• Features Primarily for Class Authors:
  • Move Support, Rvalue References, and Perfect Forwarding
  • default Member Functions
  • delete Functions
  • Default Member Initialization
  • Delegating Constructors
  • Inheriting Constructors
• Features Primarily for Library Authors:
  • Static Assertions
  • explicit Conversion Functions
  • Variadic Templates
  • decltype
  • Alignment control (i.e., alignof, alignas, etc.
• More C++11 Features (Overview)
• More C++14 Features (Overview)
• Removed and Deprecated Features (Overview)

About the author

Scott Meyersis one of the world's foremost authorities on C++ software development. He provides training and consulting services to clients worldwide.

Scott wrote the best-selling Effective C++ series (Effective C++, More_Effective C++_, and Effective STL), is consulting editor for Addison Wesley's Effective Software Development Seriesand conceived the boutique conferences The C++ Seminar and C++ and Beyond.

In 2009 he received the Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award.

He received his PhD in Computer Science from Brown University in 1993.

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