Modern C++：Efficient and Scalable Application Development

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Understanding Language Features

Writing C++

Using whitespace

Formatting Code

Writing Statements

Working with Expressions

Using the Comma Operator

Using Types and Variables

Using constants and literals

Defining constants

Using Constant Expressions

Using Enumerations

Declaring Pointers

Using Namespaces

C++ Scoping of Variables

Using Operators

Exploring the Built-in Operators

Arithmetic Operators

Increment and Decrement Operators

Bitwise Operators

Boolean Operators

Bitwise Shift Operators

Assignment Operators

Controlling Execution Flow

Using Conditional Statements

Selecting

Looping

Looping with Iteration

Conditional Loops

Jumping

Using C++ language features

Summary

Working with Memory Arrays and Pointers

Using memory in C++

Using C++ pointer syntax

Using Null Pointers

Types of Memory

Pointer Arithmetic

Using Arrays

Function parameters

Multidimensional Arrays

Passing Multidimensional Arrays to Functions

Using arrays of characters

Comparing strings

Preventing Buffer Overruns

Using Pointers in C++

Accessing out of Bounds

Pointers to Deallocated Memory

Converting Pointers

Constant Pointers

Changing the Type Pointed To

Allocating memory in code

Allocating individual objects

Allocating Arrays of Objects

Handling failed allocations

Using Other Versions of the New Operator

Memory lifetime

The Windows SDK and Pointers

Memory and the C++ Standard Library

Standard Library arrays

Using the stack-based array class

Using the Dynamically Allocated Vector Class

References

Constant References

Returning References

Temporaries and References

The rvalue References

Ranged for and References

Using Pointers in Practice

Creating the Project

Adding a Task Object to the List

Deleting the task list

Iterating the task list

Inserting Items

Summary

Using Functions

Defining C++ functions

Declaring and defining functions

Specifying linkage

Inlining

Determining the return type