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The Professional C++ Developer Roadmap outlines essential skills and knowledge areas for mastering modern C++, including core concepts, object-oriented programming, advanced topics, and design patterns. It emphasizes practical experience through a structured progression plan over a year, covering multithreading, build systems, and optional GUI programming. Additionally, it highlights the importance of coding standards, performance optimization, and potential specializations in various fields.

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CPP Developer Roadmap Cleaned

The Professional C++ Developer Roadmap outlines essential skills and knowledge areas for mastering modern C++, including core concepts, object-oriented programming, advanced topics, and design patterns. It emphasizes practical experience through a structured progression plan over a year, covering multithreading, build systems, and optional GUI programming. Additionally, it highlights the importance of coding standards, performance optimization, and potential specializations in various fields.

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Professional C++ Developer Roadmap

1. Core Modern C++ Mastery

- Basics, Advanced Functions, Namespaces

- Memory Management (new/delete, smart pointers)

- RAII, C++11 to C++20 features

- STL mastery, Exception handling

2. Object-Oriented Programming & SOLID Principles

- Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism

- SOLID principles, Composition vs Inheritance

3. Advanced C++ Concepts

- Templates, Specialization, Concepts

- Operator Overloading, Rule of Three/Five/Zero

4. Multithreading and Concurrency

- Threads, Futures, Mutex, Atomics

- Thread pools, Parallel STL, Deadlock handling

5. Design Patterns and Architecture

- Singleton, Factory, Builder

- Modular design, Dependency Injection

6. C++ Memory Model and Optimization

- Stack vs Heap, Cache Locality

- Memory leak detection, Custom allocators

7. Modern C++ Standard Library

- Iterators, Algorithms, chrono, filesystem, optional, variant


Professional C++ Developer Roadmap

8. Build Systems, Compilation and Linking

- Make, CMake, Compiler toolchains

- Debug/Release builds, Linkers

9. Software Development Tools

- Debuggers (gdb, lldb), Profilers (Valgrind)

- Static analysis (clang-tidy)

10. Systems Programming

- POSIX APIs, Process Management

- Memory-mapped files, Sockets

11. GUI Programming (Optional)

- Qt, Dear ImGui

12. C++ Frameworks and Libraries

- Boost, Poco, Protobuf, OpenSSL, ZeroMQ

13. Performance Tuning and Optimization

- CPU pipelines, SIMD, Inline Assembly

14. Databases with C++

- SQL (ODBC, SOCI), ORM libraries

15. Distributed Systems and Advanced Topics

- gRPC, REST APIs, Redis, IPC


Professional C++ Developer Roadmap

16. DevOps and Cloud Skills

- Docker, Kubernetes, Conan, CI/CD pipelines

17. Coding Standards and Practices

- C++ Core Guidelines, MISRA, Effective C++

Bonus Specializations

- Game Development, Embedded Systems, High-frequency Trading, AI/ML Backend

Sample Progression Plan

- Months 1-2: Core C++

- Months 3-4: Multithreading, Templates

- Months 5-6: Design, Memory Management

- Months 7-8: Build Systems, System Programming

- Months 9-10: Frameworks, Optimization

- Months 11-12: Specialization + Capstone Project

Final Advice

- Deep understanding, real-world projects

- Habit of Code + Debug + Profile

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