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Embedded Programming with Modern C++

Gain insights into using Modern C++ for embedded programming. Learn about safety-critical systems, optimize performance, manage limited resources, and handle parallel execution effectively.

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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/requirements explicitly. What are these requirements? Embedded systems deal with safety-critical systems, meaning they must guarantee high performance combined with limited resources, while also working in parallel. The scope of this course goes beyond just embedded programming. Developers who write servers, games, or trading systems may especially benefit from this course because they also have to deal with safety-critical systems, high performance, reduced resources, and parallel execution in their jobs. To get the most out of the course, you only need a basic understanding of C++. Building off this understanding, this course goes over all the essentials of embedded programming with Modern C++. Let's get started!

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TAKEAWAY SKILLS

C++

Programming Language

Embedded Programming

Content

134 Lessons

Introduction

5 Lessons

Get familiar with modern C++ features for embedded systems, debunk myths, and ensure safety.

What to Expect from the Course

Embedded Programming and C++

Myths

Facts

Technical Report on C++ Performance

Safety-Critical Systems

24 Lessons

Walk through safety-critical features in modern C++, including type safety, initialization, and literals.

Uniform Initialization with {}

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Automatic Type Deduction: auto

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

High Performance

30 Lessons

Examine high-performance techniques in C++ like type-traits, constexpr, associative containers, and templates.

Constant Expressions: constexpr

- Examples

- Exercise

Associative Containers

Associative Containers: The Hash Function

Associative Containers: Performance Comparison

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Templates in Modern C++

Class Template: Friends

- Examples

Template Parameter

- Examples

Template Parameter: Variadic Templates

- Examples

Template Arguments

- Examples

Templates: Specialization

- Examples

Templates: CRTP

- Examples

Reduced Resources

34 Lessons

Enhance your skills in efficient resource management and memory optimization using modern C++ techniques.

Rvalue and Lvalue References

- Example

Copy versus Move Semantic

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

Several Tasks Simultaneously

39 Lessons

Solve problems in multithreading with C++, using threads, mutexes, sync mechanisms, and atomic operations.

The Contract

Atomics

Synchronization and Ordering

Thread-Safe Initialization of Data

std::promise and std::future

- Examples

- Exercise

- Solution

Conclusion

2 Lessons

Focus on the future of Modern C++ in embedded programming and its industry impact.

Course Conclusion

About the Author

Certificate of Completion

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Course Author:

Rainer Grimm

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