Dr. Rian Quinn - Advanced C++ Programming Cookbook: Become an expert C++ programmer by mastering concepts like templates, concurrency, and type deduction

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Dr. Rian Quinn is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the Advanced Technologies Business Unit at Assured Information Security, Inc., having focused on trusted computing, hypervisor-related technologies, machine learning/artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity for more than 10 years, and has 9 years of technical management and business development experience. He holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering, with specializations in information assurance and computer architectures, from Binghamton University. He is the cofounder and lead developer of the Bareflank hypervisor, and is an active member of several open source projects, including Microsoft's Guideline Support Library (GSL) and OpenXT. Rian previously wrote Hands-On System Programming with C++.

Sergey Gomon started his journey in IT 12 years ago at Belarus State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, in the Artificial Intelligence department. He has about 8 years of industrial programming experience using C++ in several fields, such as network programming, information security, and image processing. He currently works at SolarWinds MSP and is an activist in the CoreHard C++ community.

Zhuo Qingliang (also known as KDr2 online) is presently working at paodingai.com, a start-up FinTech company in China that is dedicated to improving the financial industry by using artificial intelligence technologies. He has over 10 years of experience in Linux, C, C++, Python, Perl, and Java development. He is interested in programming, doing consulting work, and participating in and contributing to the open source community (including the Julia community, of course).

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In this book, you will learn advanced C++ techniques that you can use on your own C++ projects. This book teaches C++ using a recipe-style approach, complete with examples and screenshots for each recipe that you can download from GitHub and work with yourself. This book teaches C++ using the C++17 specification, with a sneak peek at the new features being added to C++20 at the end. In some recipes, we will even use a disassembler to better understand how C++ is compiled, and the impact certain decisions have on your applications. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the advanced concepts of C++ and will be able to solve everyday problems, which will take your C++ programming to the next level.

This book is for intermediate C++ developers who are familiar with C++ and want to obtain expert skills and become a proficient C++ developer. A good understanding of the language is assumed, including a basic understanding of assembly.

, Getting Started with Library Development , teaches you how to develop your own libraries, including an explanation of the principle of least surprise, how to namespace everything, how to write header-only libraries, and how to ensure others will continue to use your libraries.

, Using Exceptions for Error Handling , covers more advanced topics of C++ exception and error handling, including a detailed explanation of the noexcept specifier and operator, how RAII supports resource management in the presence of exceptions, why throwing from a destructor should be avoided, and how to write your own exceptions.