C++ in Detail: Common Idioms

Learning more about C++

What you'll learn:

• What programming idiom is
• Most common C++ idioms
• C++ polymorphism idioms
• C++ resource management idioms
• C++ optimization idioms
• C++ type system idioms
• C++ templates idioms

This course is about common C++ idioms that are related to:

- types system (return type resolver, type erasure, etc.)

- polymorphism (CRTP, virtual constructor)

- dependencies (PIMPL)

- templates (SFINE, enable-if, object generator)

- resource management (RAII, reference counting, resource return)

- optimization (SOO, EBO)

Idioms emerge from certain features of a programming language or a lack of them. Thus, learning C++ idioms helps better understand this language.

While learning those idioms, we will touch upon many parts of C++ like template parameters, including parameter pack, overload resolution, types of polymorphism, casting, conversion operators, placement new, special member functions, friend declarations, type deduction, etc.