Excursion Through C++

I wanted to compile a C++ reference for software subteam members of Cornell Mars Rover that covers (quickly) most of what one would possibly need to know. I already did something similar during the Winter of 2020, however, I wanted to make a document easier on the eyes, add more information, and make it more accessible.

The result is a guide, Excursion through C++, which comes with a few exercises and an example project. It did not end up serving its intended purpose, but it has been useful for my own reference from time to time.

It was a fun project, but I’m sure that it contains inaccuracies or mistakes in places.

Topics touched upon include:

• RAII, Interface and Reuse Inheritance, OOP Tips
• Noexcept, strong, and basic exception guarantees
• Smart Pointers
• Move Semantics, expression taxonomy
• RVO, NRVO
• Templates, SFINAE, type deduction, parameter packs, fold expressions
• Policy-based design, CRTP, TMP
• Threads, locks, mutexes, atomics, atomic memory orders
• C++20 features including concepts and coroutines
• Doxygen, GDB, CMake, Sanitizers, Valgrind, Unit testing with GTest, TDD, design patterns, GProf