Modern C++ Software Design (Advanced)

Agenda & Content

1st day – 24 March 2025   (9:00 – 16:30, lunch break 12:30 – 13:30)

• The Basic Design Principles 
  
  
  • Defining a Goal
  • The SOLID Principles 
     
• Concepts and the STL 
  
  
  • Motivation
  • STL Algorithms
  • STL Allocators

 

2nd day – 25 March 2025   (9:00 – 16:30, lunch break 12:30 – 13:30)

• Advanced Templates 
  
  
  • Type Traits
  • SFINAE
  • C++20 Concepts 
     
• Class Design 
  
  
  • Compiler Generated Functions
  • Exception Safety
  • Copy Elision

 

3rd day – 26 March 2025   (9:00 – 16:30, lunch break 12:30 – 13:30)

• Class Design 
  
  
  • Move Semantics
  • Return Values and Parameters
  • Member Data
  • Applied Class Design
  • Visibility vs. Accessibility 
     
• Dynamic Polymorphism 
  
  
  • The Perils of Inheritance

 

4th day – 27 March 2025   (9:00 – 15:30, lunch break 12:30 – 13:30)

• Dynamic Polymorphism 
  
  
  • Value Semantics
    
    
    • Visitor (Classic vs. Modern)
    • Strategy (Classic vs. Modern)
    • Type Erasure
       
  • Public Inheritance
     
    • Examples for good public inheritance
    • Examples for bad public inheritance
       
  • Surprises in Inheritance Hierarchies 
     
• Design of HPC Components 
  
  
  • Motivation
  • SIMD Basics
  • Vectors and Matrices
  • Dense Matrix/Dense Vector Multiplication