Class Provider C++ Programming for Experienced Programmers

Title: Class Provider Programming using C++ for Experienced Programmers

Five day courses on C++ rarely have time to do justice to the complex topic of single inheritance let along multiple inheritance. In this module we examine the details of inheritance ask some important questions: What problems can we solve with inheritance? Can these problems be better solved with some other technique? What are the perils and merits of solving this problems with inheritance? What are some problems whose optimal solution is single/multiple inheritance?

In addition to discussing inheritance and the closely related technique of mix-in programming, we talk about the nitty-gritty details of template programming from the class provider perspective.

Who should attend?

Programmers who need to create their own classes using advanced techniques involving inheritance and templates.

Duration: 2 Days

Two versions

There are two versions of this course. Programmers already comfortable with constructors, destructors, colon initialization lists used for inheritance and composition and overloaded assignment operators should consider C++ Class Provider Programming for Beginning Programmers.

Prerequisites

See Advanced C++ Modules.

Topics

Effective Inheritance

Definitions

	Inheritance
	Object-Oriented programming

Multiple inheritance (MI)

Managing members

Value semantics

Virtual inheritance

Clipping

Dynamic binding

Synthetic vs. natural inheritance

Inheritance abuse

Value semantics of virtual MI

Mix-in Programming

	Problems in inheritance in C++
	The solution: simulating LISP daemons
	Anonymous classes

Class Provider Programming with Templates

Templates

	Parameterized classes
	Template functions

Pass types as well as values to template classes

Template class specialization can accommodate built-in types

Template members