Advanced C++ Training: Modern C++ and the STL

Programming with C++

In this training course, you deepen your knowledge of C++ and get to know modern C++ according to the C++17 and C++20 standards. This enables you to write safer, faster and more maintainable code.

We show you the fastest way to achieve your goals with C++. With simple and demanding exercises, you extend your skills so that you can then create modern C++ programs independently.

Suitable for

• Software architects
• Software developers

Prior knowledge

• Basic knowledge of C++

Format and duration

• 3 days
• Online, conveniently from home
• In our training rooms in Freiburg
• At your premises - only possible from a minimum number of participants

Dates

• Currently on request

Participant materials

• Laptop
• Visual Studio 2026 or 2022 with the “Desktop development with C++” workload
• Useful but not essential: Visio (2019, 2021 or 2024) or another UML tool
• Writing materials

Training room

• Projector
• Whiteboard, blackboard or flipchart

Contents of the 3-Day Training: Advanced C++

Day 1

• Overview of day 1
• Object-oriented development
  • Classes and methods
  • Inheritance, multiple inheritance and overriding
  • Association, aggregation and composition
  • Abstract classes as interfaces
• Modern object-oriented development
  • Constructors, destructors and initialisation
  • Rule of zero, three and five
  • const correctness
• Clean code for teamwork
  • C++ Core Guidelines
  • Coding conventions
• Independent exercises
• Outlook on day 2

Day 2

• Review (training day 1)
• Overview of day 2
• Memory and resources
  • Pointers and references
  • RAII: managing resources safely
  • Smart pointers: unique_ptr, shared_ptr, weak_ptr
  • Move semantics
• Practical exercises
• Standard library containers
  • vector, list, deque
  • map, set and unordered_map
  • Iterators
  • Algorithms and lambda expressions
• Practical exercises
• Outlook on day 3

Day 3

• Review (training day 2)
• Overview of day 3
• Templates
  • Function and class templates
  • Concepts (C++20)
• Error handling
  • Exceptions and exception safety
  • std::optional and std::variant
• Further language features
  • Operator overloading
  • Streams and files
  • Utility classes of the standard library
• Outlook: concurrency with std::thread
• Independent exercises
• Conclusion
• Where can I find more information?

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