Lecture script

• First keywords
• What brackets mean
• What do different signs mean
• Intro to "scopes"
• Intro to functions
• Intro to includes

Homework script

• Write a simple program that prints Hello World!
• Learn to compile and run simple programs

Lecture script

• How to create variables of fundamental types
• Naming variables
• Using const, constexpr with variables
• References to variables

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• Namespaces with variables
• The word using with variables

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• std::cout, std::cerr, std::cin

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• Sequence containers: std::array, std::vector, their usage and some caveats
• Pair container: std::pair
• Strings from STL: std::string
• Conversion to/from strings: to_string, stoi, stod, stof, etc.
• Aggregate initialization

Lecture script

• std::map and std::unordered_map
• Touch up on std::set and std::unordered_set

Homework script

• Write a program that tells your C++ fortune
• It reads and writes data from and to terminal
• Stores and accesses these data in containers

Lecture script

• if, switch and ternary operator
• for, while and do ... while

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• What are random numbers
• How to generate them in modern C++
• Why not to use rand()

Homework script

• A program that generates a number
• The user guesses this number
• The program tells the user if they are above or below with their guess (or if they've won)

Lecture script

• Useful compilation flags
• Debugging a program with:
  • Print statements
  • lldb debugger

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• What is a function
• Declaration and definition
• Passing by reference
• Overloading
• Using default arguments

Lecture script

• What are enums
• How to use them?
• Why not to use old style enums

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• Different types of libraries
  • Header-only
  • Static
  • Dynamic
• What is linking
• When to use the keyword inline
• Some common best practices

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• Intro to build systems
• Build commands as a script
• Build commands in a Makefile

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• Build process with CMake
• CMake Variables
• Targets and their properties
• Example CMake project

Lecture script

• Explain what testing is for
• Explain what testing is
• Show how to download and setup googletest
• Show how to write a simple test

Homework script

• You will write library that allows to split and trim strings
• You will learn how to:
  • Write a CMake project from scratch
  • Write your own libraries
  • Test them with googletest
  • Link them to binaries

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• Explain why the classes are needed
• Implement an example game about a car
• Define classes and structs more formally

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• The pointer type
• Pointers = variables of pointer types
• How to get the data?
• Initialization and assignment
• Using const with pointers
• Non-const pointer to const data
• Constant pointer to non-const data
• Constant pointer to constant data

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• Creating a new object
• What happens when an object dies
• Full class lifecycle explained

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• Why we care about move semantics
• Let’s re-design move semantics from scratch
• How is it actually designed and called in Modern C++?

Lecture script

• “Good style” as our guide
• What is “good style”
• Setting up the example
• Rule 1: destructor
• Rule 2: copy constructor
• Rule 3: copy assignment operator
• Rule 4: move constructor
• Rule 5: move assignment operator
• Now we (mostly) follow best practices
• Rule of 5 (and 3)
• The rule of “all or nothing”

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• What stays the same
• What is different
• Example to show it all

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• What is const correctness
• Some rules and examples to follow in order to work with const correctly

Homework script

• You will write a library that allows to pixelate an image
• You will learn how to:
  • Work with classes
  • Use external libraries
    • Read images from disk using stb_image.h
    • Draw stuff in the terminal using FTXUI library
  • Manage memory allocated elsewhere correctly
  • Writing multiple libraries and binaries and linking them together
  • Manage a larger CMake project

Lecture script

• Why we should not use static outside of classes
• Relation to storage duration
• Relation to linkage
• Why we should use inline instead

Lecture script

• Using static class methods
• Using static class data
• What is static in classes useful for?

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• Templates provide abstraction and separation of concerns
• Function templates
• Class and struct templates
• Generic algorithms and design patterns
• Zero runtime cost (almost)
• Compile-time meta-programming
• Summary

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• Compilation process recap
• Compiler uses templates to generate code
• Hands-on example
• Compiler is lazy

Lecture script

• The basics of writing a function template
• Explicit template parameters
• Implicit template parameters
• Using both explicit and implicit template parameters at the same time
• Function overloading and templates
• Full function template specialization and why function overloading is better