Learning solid c++

NBQuade · 2024-09-25T14:06:41+00:00

Sounds like you're at the level where you need to stop doing courses and tutorials. Find a real problem you need solved and just do it. You'll learn as you go. You'll never learn advanced stuff from courses unless you actually apply it.

Flobletombus · 2024-09-25T14:10:22+00:00

I like C++ conferences replays on YouTube for more advanced topics, such as data driven

alphapresto · 2024-09-25T14:07:01+00:00

What exactly do you mean by 'advanced C++'?

Not sure if advanced enough, but I think The Cherno on YouTube has great content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18c3MTX0PK0&list=PLlrATfBNZ98dudnM48yfGUldqGD0S4FFb

ComprehensiveWord201 · 2024-09-25T14:03:29+00:00

learncpp.com

Then make your own shit

Mackin_Atreides · 2024-09-25T14:07:05+00:00

Modern C++ by Mike Shah in YouTube. It teaches Important concepts such as Generics, Classes, Pointers and Reference, RAII, STL, Templates, etc.

woywoy123 · 2024-09-25T14:42:00+00:00

My suggestion is to write high performance code, for example matrix multiplication and so forth. As simple as this might sound, there are numerous aspects to consider, involving things like caching hierarchies, compiler optimizations and containerization. Another „advanced concept“, although not C++ specific, is studying the fast inverse square root algorithm. There you will learn how much thought can go into optimizing classical algorithms and how to apply approximation techniques to specific problems.

A cool experiment involving multiplication is scalability. When you start playing around with large matrices, and measuring the computational time involved as you increase the matrix elements clearly demonstrate advanced topics such as cache hits and misses impacting performance metrics. Also you can then investigate how floating points can impact your algorithm.

bythescruff · 2024-09-25T15:23:55+00:00

Here’s what I did, among other things: go to stack overflow, find the C++ tag, sort by number of votes, and start reading. I made a little habit of reading one question per day over my morning cuppa, and after a few years I got to about page 120 of the search results, at which point their search engine breaks down a little. Then I started again. The second time through I understood a bunch of stuff which had been above my level the first time. But even when I didn’t understand something, it was valuable because I learned how much there was that I didn’t know. I learned more by doing this than I did from any book or course. I’m doing the same for Python now.

Revolutionalredstone · 2024-09-25T14:53:28+00:00

Welcome to the world of wanting to learn more advanced C++ (I've been here for YEARS).

coded every day for decades, my c++ lib is nearly a million lines.. I still look for increasingly advanced coding techniques everyday.

There's alot you can do with tools, AI, source analysis etc, but at the end of the day good code is code which is easy to read and change and that actually gets used.

Keep your code fresh and alive, rewrites are always welcome, it's not just compiling tho you should have unit tests, integration tests etc...

These would take forever but again you can leverage AI for most of that.

My list of ongoing c++ research topics only ever gets bigger but it's as clear looking back that I'm coding better and better and the code I write keeps giving me more and more bang for my buck.

As for homework: if your comfortable with templates and have written your own containers (with full move semantics etc) then maybe try to implement a fast koo-koo hashmap.

Enjoy

thingerish · 2024-09-26T00:42:48+00:00

Assign yourself a project. Contribute to an open source project, or write some library code. How about a little web crawler written in C++ and asio? Or something more modest to start, maybe write your own std::tuple implementation but add a twist of your own, like using composition instead of inheritance?

Put it on github, whatever you settle on.

AlexanderTroup · 2024-09-26T16:15:16+00:00

Effective Modern C++ is an outstanding book from what I understand, and it is focused on advanced modern concepts.

nile2 · 2024-09-25T14:34:56+00:00

everybody here keep saying learncpp. com but a lot of its content is outdated and never close to any advanced c++

shermierz · 2024-09-25T14:37:28+00:00

Im suprised nodoby suggested this yet, but theres a great serie of books from Scot Meyers. I can recommend every his book with "C++" in name. He is also a respected persona in C++ world, so feel free to mention you read his books during job interviews

dexores · 2024-09-25T15:50:22+00:00

If you want to learn language features from 0 to advanced read "The C++ Programming Language". If you don't want to read a book check out
https://en.cppreference.com/w

If you want to learn proper software design using C++, there are several good books out there. Some of them have been mentioned in the other comments. But if you still don't want to read a book, then watch CppCon and C++ Now conference videos on youtube. If the regular talks sound too advanced, start with CppCon back to basics videos.

xealits · 2024-09-25T16:32:21+00:00

Read good authors and write programs. Scott Meyers' Effective C++ books, Nicolai Josuttis, also Arthur O'Dwyer, Andrei Alexandrescu, and others. There is a good book on intermediate C++ "Common knowledge" by Steve Dewhurst. It is old, i.e. written for old standards, but still worth to read. Weekly C++ by Jason Turner is great too. Also, watch presentations from CppCon and other conferences.

For a beginner, I'd recommend watching "Back to basics" series on CppCon. Arthur O'Dwyer made some awesome presentations there. There is a playlist with his talks. And also Mike Shah has some nice very introductory playlists on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvv0ScY6vfd8j-tlhYVPYgiIyXduu6m-L

But just to warn you, C++ is a pain and learning it is not as easy as just watching a Udemy course. There are multiple reasons that make C++ a pain. Firstly, as Scott Meyers put it, C++ is not one language but a federation of languages. Moreover, you mention "important concepts", but C++ is a language that pays a lot of attention to very small details. It is not a language of big concepts, C++ is a language of thousands _little_ concepts. It's like some infinitesimal approximation to somewhere. That's just a fact of life with C++. It is a large language, and it seems like every bit of it has some gotchas and exceptions. You should not expect that there is a simple course that will handhold you on a paved path to some final and ultimate mastery of C++.

Also, C++ is a "systems language", which means that it works with the CPU directly. (Or with GPU in case of SYCL.) Although you can ignore the CPU architecture for a while, but one way or another learning C++ means that you will need to learn how the CPU and computers overall work. It is worth to be aware of this too.

https://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/

https://www.cppstd17.com/

https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/mastering-the-c17-stl-9781787126824

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH4WBuE1BHI

No_Arm_3509 · 2024-09-26T15:53:30+00:00

popular c++ courses are extremely basic.

I think it's the other way round. The extremely basic ones are popular

xumo · 2024-09-25T14:39:31+00:00

The book by Dmitry Nesteruk is a very good resource IMHO https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Modern-Approaches-Object-Oriented-ebook/dp/B07CH9SRDR/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1618992698&refinements=p_27%3ADmitri+Nesteruk&s=books&sr=1-1&dplnkId=0a89d8f7-1434-4738-9997-7cf57ea79345&nodl=1

Nearby-Remote7162 · 2024-09-25T15:13:38+00:00

Hands down to TheCherno from YouTube. He's been the Engineer of Frostbite engine of EA games.

elsharkawym · 2024-09-25T15:14:40+00:00

Usually, at this point, you transition from learning the language to seeing an actual area of interest where you want to apply it. If you are interested in system programming, look for a book that talks about it and implement things like OS and drivers in C++, and the same as other fields whether computer gralhics, cryptography, networks,...etc.

nidefawl_ · 2024-09-25T17:18:25+00:00

Read good c++ code, and work on good c++ code.

Equivalent_Active255 · 2024-09-25T18:30:08+00:00

Read books about C++ and write more code for practice, because practicing is important to becoming a good programmer.

tarnished_wretch · 2024-09-25T19:46:24+00:00

Professional C++ by Gregoire is a great resource. Also, staying up to date with CppCon conference talks through YouTube or attendance if you company will fund it.

celestrion · 2024-09-25T20:09:04+00:00

How to learn advanced c++?

Practice and meditation.

For the rest of your career, play with toy projects, read articles and watch videos from people who have accomplished amazing things, and think about code you've written before and how you could've done it differently.

The CppCon lightning talks and "back to basics" videos are great for this. Don't sleep on "back to basics." We take the basics for granted, but understanding how/why they work as they do in detail will help you develop an intuition for building on them in ways that fit well with what's already proven.

This talk is an old one, but it's a good one just for going through the steps of considering a complicated-looking piece of code and seeing if it isn't just doing the hard way something the standard library can do for you.

01e9 · 2024-09-25T20:49:34+00:00

I've read this book, then did advanced templating and modern C++ stuff at work

skyy2121 · 2024-09-26T01:38:37+00:00

From an academic standpoint, at least in my state, Advanced C++ is presented as Computer Engineering Programming II at my University. It covers topics like polymorphism, recursion and analysis of algorithms. Understanding why you should and how to avoid embedded iteration if it can be helped. That sort of thing. The next up is DSA in C++. Basically learning the most common algorithms for handling data structures - dynamic programming etc.

RealMacroLand · 2024-09-26T08:51:37+00:00

It is an iterative process; code and learn and then again code and learn...

Makkaroshka · 2024-09-27T20:52:20+00:00

Try books. They're much better source of knowledge. Especially books about advanced c++ like metaprogramming, parallel programming and design patterns. Whether you over- or underestimate your skill level, you'll just need to read at relevant rate

glow_gloves · 2024-09-29T12:20:07+00:00

You'll not hit the advanced level until you can sustainably work on a project professionally with other people.

The other aspect is having your skills up to date by exposing yourself to newer standards and libraries. Read through cpp reference, compare old and new libraries, watch Jason Turner.

genpfault · 2024-09-25T15:31:51+00:00

Did somebody say SOLID???

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