Modern C++ Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

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This pragmatic recipe book offers a comprehensive understanding of C++ programming's complexities and core fundamentals. It explores the latest features of C++20, including modules, coroutines, concepts, and ranges. The text sheds light on essential C++ concepts like functions, algorithms, threading, and concurrency through practical, self-contained recipes. Leveraging C++ features such as smart pointers, move semantics, and constexpr enhances robustness and performance. The updated second edition addresses C++20's advancements and organizes content into practical recipes that tackle a wide range of modern development challenges. It covers core concepts like functions, classes, iterators, algorithms, streams, and file systems, as well as threading and concurrency. The book emphasizes performance, teaching developers to write fast, lean code with best practices. It also explores useful design patterns and idioms, including pimpl, named parameters, and the factory pattern, while dedicating a chapter to unit testing with popular libraries like Boost.Test, Google Test, and Catch2. By the end, readers will effectively leverage C++11/14/17/20 features and techniques to enhance application performance, scalability, and efficiency. The book equips developers with the skills to utilize the standard library, work with containers and algorithms, and address text searching and replacement using regular expressions.