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  • Copyright 2016
  • Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9-1/8"
  • Pages: 480
  • Edition: 1st
  • EPUB (Watermarked)
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-438366-4
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-438366-8

As scientific and engineering projects grow larger and more complex, it is increasingly likely that those projects will be written in C++. With embedded hardware growing more powerful, much of its software is moving to C++, too. Mastering C++ gives you strong skills for programming at nearly every level, from “close to the hardware” to the highest-level abstractions. In short, C++ is a language that scientific and technical practitioners need to know.

Peter Gottschling’s Discovering Modern C++ is an intensive introduction that guides you smoothly to sophisticated approaches based on advanced features. Gottschling introduces key concepts using examples from many technical problem domains, drawing on his extensive experience training professionals and teaching C++ to students of physics, math, and engineering.

This book is designed to help you get started rapidly and then master increasingly robust features, from lambdas to expression templates. You’ll also learn how to take advantage of the powerful libraries available to C++ programmers: both the Standard Template Library (STL) and scientific libraries for arithmetic, linear algebra, differential equations, and graphs.

Throughout, Gottschling demonstrates how to write clear and expressive software using object orientation, generics, metaprogramming, and procedural techniques. By the time you’re finished, you’ll have mastered all the abstractions you need to write C++ programs with exceptional quality and performance.

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Table of Contents

Preface           xvii
Reasons to Learn C++     xvii

Reasons to Read This Book     xviii

The Beauty and the Beast     xviii

Languages in Science and Engineering     xix

Typographical Conventions     xx

Acknowledgments     xxiii

About the Author     xxv

Chapter 1: C++ Basics             1

1.1   Our First Program   1

1.2   Variables   3

1.3   Operators   10

1.4   Expressions and Statements   21

1.5   Functions   28

1.6   Error Handling   34

1.7   I/O   40

1.8   Arrays, Pointers, and References   47

1.9   Structuring Software Projects   58

1.10 Exercises   63

Chapter 2: Classes         65

2.1   Program for Universal Meaning Not for Technical Details   65

2.2   Members   67

2.3   Setting Values: Constructors and Assignments   72

2.4   Destructors   89

2.5   Method Generation Résumé   95

2.6   Accessing Member Variables   96

2.7   Operator Overloading Design   100

2.8   Exercises   104

Chapter 3: Generic Programming         107

3.1   Function Templates   107

3.2   Namespaces and Function Lookup   115

3.3   Class Templates   123

3.4   Type Deduction and Definition   131

3.5   A Bit of Theory on Templates: Concepts   136

3.6   Template Specialization   136

3.7   Non-Type Parameters for Templates   144

3.8   Functors   146

3.9   Lambda   154

3.10 Variadic Templates   159

3.11 Exercises   161

Chapter 4: Libraries         165

4.1   Standard Template Library   165

4.2   Numerics   186

4.3   Meta-programming   198

4.4   Utilities   202

4.5   The Time Is Now   209

4.6   Concurrency   211

4.7   Scientific Libraries Beyond the Standard   213

4.8   Exercises   215

Chapter 5: Meta-Programming         219

5.1   Let the Compiler Compute   219

5.2   Providing and Using Type Information   226

5.3   Expression Templates   245

5.4   Meta-Tuning: Write Your Own Compiler Optimization   253

5.5   Exercises   283

Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming         287

6.1   Basic Principles   287

6.2   Removing Redundancy   298

6.3   Multiple Inheritance   299

6.4   Dynamic Selection by Sub-typing   306

6.5   Conversion   308

6.6   CRTP  316

6.7   Exercises   320

Chapter 7: Scientific Projects          321

7.1   Implementation of ODE Solvers   321

7.2   Creating Projects   332

7.3   Some Final Words   345

Appendix A: Clumsy Stuff         347

A.1   More Good and Bad Scientific Software   347

A.2   Basics in Detail   353

A.3   Real-World Example: Matrix Inversion   362

A.4   Class Details   371

A.5   Method Generation   375

A.6   Template Details   386

A.7   Using std::vector in C++03   391

A.8   Dynamic Selection in Old Style   392

A.9   Meta-Programming Details 392

Appendix B: Programming Tools          403

B.1   gcc    403

B.2   Debugging   404

B.3   Memory Analysis   408

B.4   gnuplot   409

B.5   Unix, Linux, and Mac OS   411

Appendix C: Language Definitions         413

C.1   Value Categories   413

C.2   Operator Overview   413

C.3   Conversion Rules   416

Bibliography         419

Index         423

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