Lectures and homeworks

This is a list of lectures from the C++ for yourself course.

How to follow this course

The course is designed to be consumed from top to bottom, so start at the beginning and you will always have enough knowledge for the next video.

That being said, I aim to leave links in the videos so that one could watch them out of order without much hassle.

Enjoy! 😎

C++ for yourself

• Hello world program dissection

  Video	Slides

  • First keywords
  • What brackets mean
  • What do different signs mean
  • Intro to "scopes"
  • Intro to functions
  • Intro to includes
• Homework: hello world program

  

  • Write a simple program that prints Hello World!
  • Learn to compile and run simple programs
• Variables of fundamental types

  Video	Slides

  • How to create variables of fundamental types
  • Naming variables
  • Using const, constexpr with variables
  • References to variables
• Namespaces for variables

  Video	Slides

  • Namespaces with variables
  • The word using with variables
• Input/output streams

  Video	Slides

  • std::cout, std::cerr, std::cin
• Sequence and utility containers

  Video	Slides

  • Sequence containers: std::array, std::vector, their usage and some caveats
  • Pair container: std::pair
  • Strings from STL: std::string
  • Conversion to/from strings: to_string, stoi, stod, stof, etc.
  • Aggregate initialization
• Associative containers:

  Video	Slides

  • std::map and std::unordered_map
  • Touch up on std::set and std::unordered_set
• Homework: fortune teller program

  

  • Write a program that tells your C++ fortune
  • It reads and writes data from and to terminal
  • Stores and accesses these data in containers
• Control structures

  Video	Slides

  • if, switch and ternary operator
  • for, while and do ... while
• Random number generation

  Video	Slides

  • What are random numbers
  • How to generate them in modern C++
  • Why not to use rand()
• Homework: the guessing game

  Video	Homework

  • A program that generates a number
  • The user guesses this number
  • The program tells the user if they are above or below with their guess (or if they've won)
• Compilation flags and debugging

  Video	Slides

  • Useful compilation flags
  • Debugging a program with:
    • Print statements
    • lldb debugger
• Functions

  Video	Slides

  • What is a function
  • Declaration and definition
  • Passing by reference
  • Overloading
  • Using default arguments
• Enumerations

  Video	Slides

  • What are enums
  • How to use them?
  • Why not to use old style enums
• Libraries and header files

  Video	Slides

  • Different types of libraries
    • Header-only
    • Static
    • Dynamic
  • What is linking
  • When to use the keyword inline
  • Some common best practices
• Build systems introduction

  Video	Slides

  • Intro to build systems
  • Build commands as a script
  • Build commands in a Makefile
• CMake introduction

  Video	Slides

  • Build process with CMake
  • CMake Variables
  • Targets and their properties
  • Example CMake project
• Using GoogleTest framework for testing code

  Video	Slides

  • Explain what testing is for
  • Explain what testing is
  • Show how to download and setup googletest
  • Show how to write a simple test
• Homework: string processing library

  Video	Homework

  • You will write library that allows to split and trim strings
  • You will learn how to:
    • Write a CMake project from scratch
    • Write your own libraries
    • Test them with googletest
    • Link them to binaries

PS

Most of the code snippets are validated automatically

If you do find an error in some of those, please open an issue in this repo!

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