Marius Bancila - Modern C++ Programming Cookbook

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First published: May 2017

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ISBN 978-1-78646-518-4

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Marius Bancila is a software engineer with 14 years of experience in developing solutions for the industrial and financial sectors. He focuses on Microsoft technologies and mainly develops desktop applications with C++ and C#. Over the years, he has worked with other languages and technologies including Java, HTML/CSS, PHP, and JavaScript.

Marius is passionate about sharing his technical expertise with others, and for that reason, he has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for more than a decade. He has been an active contributor to forums and other developer communities where he has published many articles, for which he has won multiple awards. He also created and contributed to several open source libraries. He is a cofounder of Codexpert, a Romanian community for C++ developers. He is based in Timisoara, Romania, and works as a system architect, building accounting and logistic solutions for a major European software vendor. He can be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mariusbancila.

David V. Corbin began programming during the heyday of the mini-computer era, starting with the DEC PDP-8. His early career was in the defense industry, progressing from the company's first software technician to being the technical lead of the engineering software department, with much of the work being done in C. He cofounded Dynamic Concepts in 1984 to facilitate the introduction of the PC into business environments (this is the same year the original IBM AT was introduced).

By the early 1990s, much of his application development had started migrating to C++. Even after 25 years, C++ remains a valued tool in his development arsenal. In 2005, he began to focus on improving the software development and delivery process via the application of ALM principles. Today, he continues as the President and Chief Architect of Dynamic Concepts and works directly with clients, providing guidance in the rapidly changing ecosystem.

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C++ is one of the most popular and most widely used programming languages, and it has been like that for three decades. Designed with a focus on performance, efficiency, and flexibility, C++ combines paradigms such as object-oriented, imperative, generic, and, more recently, functional programming. C++ is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and has undergone massive changes over the last decade. With the standardization of C++11, the language has entered into a new age, which has been widely referred to as modern C++. Type inference, move semantics, lambda expression, smart pointers, uniform initialization, variadic templates, and many other recent features have changed the way we write code in C++ to the point that it almost looks like a new programming language.