Preface

This is a tutorial for the Advanced Course on the C++ Language. It's main purpose is to give a background material for the 24 hours Advanced C++ course. It it supposed that You are already familiar with the basic C++ language elements like:

• Overview of the basic elements
• Differences between C and C++
• Lexical rules
• Scope rules
• Life rules
• References
• Namespaces
• Function declarations
• Default arguments
• Parameter passing by value and by reference
• Overloading
• Template functions
• Classes
• Visibility (public, protected, private)
• This
• Const memberfunction, const and static members
• Operator overloading
• Copy semantics (copy constructor, assignment)
• Class templates
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism (virtual functions)
• Exception handling

This course try to answer the question when and how to use the language features above, rather than learn newer and newer language elements. (However we learn a few one, like pointer to member, etc...) We have an outlook on design questions too. We will analyze already written (and working example programs: try to understand them and find it's problematic parts. Then we improve them.

We also take a tour on the standard library. We get to know the basic concept on STL (Standard Template Library) and the I/O mechanism. We also practice the usage of std::string.