Embedded Programming with Modern C++

Course Overview

Embedded Programming with Modern C++ is highly valuable for each professional programmer. In the past, embedded and system programming have had their pitfalls, but modern C++ has been designed to be a better language for this type of development, addressing the previous pitfalls/requ... See More

How You'll Learn

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Introduction

What to Expect from the Course

Embedded Programming and C++

Myths

Facts

Technical Report on C++ Performance

2. Safety-Critical Systems

Uniform Initialization with {}

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Automatic Type Deduction: auto

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Scoped Enumerations

- Example

nullptr Instead of 0 or NULL

- Example

User-Defined Literals: Introduction

- Example

- Exercises

- Solution

User-Defined Literals: Raw and Cooked

- Example

Built-in Literals

- Example

Assertions at Compile Time

- Example

- Exercise

- Solution

3. High Performance

Type-Traits

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Constant Expressions: constexpr

- Examples

- Exercise

Associative Containers

Associative Containers: The Hash Function

Associative Containers: Performance Comparison

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Templates in Modern C++

Function Templates

- Examples

Class Templates

- Examples

Class Template: Friends

- Examples

Template Parameter

- Examples

Template Parameter: Variadic Templates

- Examples

Template Arguments

- Examples

Templates: Specialization

- Examples

Templates: CRTP

- Examples

4. Reduced Resources

Rvalue and Lvalue References

- Example

Copy versus Move Semantic

Move Semantic

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Perfect Forwarding

- Example

- Exercise

- Solution

Memory Management: Memory Allocation

Memory Management: Memory Deallocation

Memory Management: Overloading Operator new and delete 1

Memory Management: Overloading Operator new and delete 2

- Example

- Exercise

STL: Sequential Containers

- Example

- Exercise

- Solution

Smart Pointers: Introduction

Smart Pointers: Unique Pointers

- Examples

Smart Pointers: Shared Pointers

- Examples

Smart Pointers: Weak Pointers

- Example

Smart Pointers: Cyclic References

- Example

- Exercise

- Solution

Smart Pointers: Performance Comparison

Smart Pointers: Passing Smart Pointers

5. Several Tasks Simultaneously

The Contract

Atomics

Synchronization and Ordering

- Example

- Exercise

Threads

- Examples

- Exercises

- Solutions

Mutexes

- Example

- Exercise

Locks

- Examples

- Exercises

- Solutions

Thread-Safe Initialization of Data

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Thread-Local Data

- Example

Condition Variables

- Example

- Exercise

- Solution

Tasks

std::async

- Example

- Exercise

- Solution

std::packaged_task

- Example

- Exercise

- Solution

std::promise and std::future

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

6. Conclusion

Course Conclusion

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