C++

C++ is one of the most important programming languages in the world. It is particularly important for high-performance software.

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Meet your instructors, David and Stephen, and hear from the inventor of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup.

In this lesson, you will build on your previous programming experience to learn the basics of the C++ language.

In this lesson, you will learn about the A* search algorithm. Over a sequence of exercises, you will use your A* search implementation to plan a path through the obstacles in the ASCII board.

In this lesson, you will learn the syntax for C++ language features that you will need for the next steps in the course. This includes an overview of header files, pointers, build tools, and classes.

In this lesson, you will explore some of the basic object oriented functionality of the C++ language.

In this lesson, we'll get into some of the more advanced topics in object oriented programming, including inheritance, polymorphism and templates.

This lesson covers basic concepts such as cache, virtual memory, and the structure of memory addresses. In addition, it is demonstrated how the debugger can be used to read data from memory.

In this lesson the process memory model is introduced, which contains the two fundamental memory areas heap and stack, which play an important role in C++.

This lesson introduces dynamic memory allocation on the heap. The commands malloc and free as well as new and delete are introduced for this purpose.

This section describes how to customize resource copying using the Rule of Three. Also, the Rule of Five is introduced, which helps develop a thorough memory management strategy in your code.

In this lesson the three types of smart pointers in C++ are presented and compared. In addition, it is shown how to transfer ownership from one program part to another using copy and move semantics.

Learn the difference between processes and threads, and write your own concurrent program running multiple threads at the same time.

Learn to use promises and futures to create safe communication between threads. Also learn about tasks as an alternative to threads. Finally, understand data races and how to avoid them.

Use mutexes and locks to safely access shared data from various threads.

Use condition variables as a basic synchronization tool between threads. Understand and implement a concurrent message queue for flexible inter-thread communication