C++ for programmers

System programming language in Unix like systems such as Linux and MacOS, with focus on C++ in particular. C++ will be compared to other relevant system programming languages such as C and Rust.

System programming languages ​​are programming languages ​​specifically designed to be resource efficient, with better memory utilisation, are more energy efficient and result in faster runtime than other programming languages ​​such as Java, Python and JavaScript.

Content:

• Resource management in system programming languages
• More about object-oriented programming, such as struct in C, multiple inheritance in C++ and traits in Rust
• Error handling
• Containers
• Functional algorithms
• Constant expressions and template meta-programming
• Parallelisation and asynchronous programming
• Operator overloading

Knowledge

The candidate can give an account of:

• resource acquisition is initialisation (RAII)
• pointers, smart pointers and references
• object-oriented programming in system programming languages
• various forms of error handling
• constant expressions, template meta-programming and operator overloading
• different types of containers and functional algorithms
• advantages and disadvantages of parallelisation and asynchronous programming

Skills

The candidate can:

• create stable and resource efficient software and software libraries in C++
• read and understand C++ source code written by others
• use 3rd party libraries

General competence

The candidate is better able to:

• make professionally justified choice of programming language for given tasks
• contribute to the development of software and software libraries written in a system programming language
• acquire new knowledge in a field in continuous development

Online study. Lessons and exercises with feedback.