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What is C++?

Installing C++ Introduction to the Language Why use C++?

Code Editors / IDEs

C vs C++

Running your First Program

Arithmetic Operators

Logical Operators RTTI

Setting up your Environment

Loops: for/while Operators

Dynamic Typing
Bitwise Operators Lambda

Static Typing

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Code Splitting: Headers / CPP Files Forward Declaration

New/delete Operators Memory Model

Scope Namespaces
Memory Leakage
Lifetime of Objects
Structuring Codebase

Rule of Zero, Five, Three

Overloading of Functions

Static Polymorphism
Object Oriented Programming Structures and Classes
Dynamic Polymorphism

Virtual Methods Virtual Tables

Multiple Inheritance

Access Violations
Diamond Inheritance
static_cast
auto (Automatic Type Deduction) Exceptions

const_cast
Type Casting Exit Codes Exception Handling

dynamic_cast
Undefined Behavior (UB)
reinterpret_cast
Argument Dependent Lookup (ADL)

Name Mangling Macros Language Concepts

Iterators iostream

Full Template Specialization Variadic Templates Algorithms Date / Time Standard Library + STL

Partial Template Specialization Template Specialization Multithreading Containers

Type Traits

SFINAE Templates
RAII Pimpl CRTP

Non-Copyable/Non-Moveable C++11/14

Erase-Remove Idioms C++17

Copy and Swap C++20

Copy on Write Newest

Standards C++0x

Understand Compiler Stages Language Tools

Compilers Debuggers Understanding Debugger Messages

Debugging Symbols
Different Compilers and their Features
WinDBg GDB
Clang++/LLVM
CMAKE
Intel C++
MSVS C++ vcpkg Spack
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Frameworks Libraries

gtest/gmock Boost OpenCV Working with Libraries

Qt POCO protobuf
Library Inclusion
Catch2 gRPC tensorflow
Licensing
Orbit Profiler pybind11 spdlog

PyTorch C++ opencl fmt

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