100 C++ Mistakes and How To Avoid Them identifies the problems youβll find in legacy C++ codebases as well as in your own new programs. Author Rich Yonts provides a concrete example of each mistake and a step-by-step walkthrough of the correct code. Youβll learn to consider each mistake from the standpoint of correctness, readability, effectiveness, and performance, and adopt modern programming techniques that can replace older, outdated approaches.
Learn how to handle errors, inefficiencies, and outdated paradigms by exploring the most common mistakes youβll find in production C++ code.
C++ is a complex and powerful language. With an estimated ten billion lines of C++ code running in production, itβs not hard to find bugs, inefficiencies, and other coding mistakes that slow and snarl even the most mission critical applications. 100 C++ Mistakes and How To Avoid Them reveals the problems youβll inevitably encounter as you write new C++ code and diagnose legacy applications, along with practical techniques you need to resolve them.
Inside 100 C++ Mistakes and How To Avoid Them youβll learn how to:
Β Β Β Design solid classes
Β Β Β Minimize resource allocation/deallocation issues
Β Β Β Use new C++ features
Β Β Β Identify the differences between compile and runtime issues
Β Β Β Recognize C-style idioms that miss C++ functionality
Β Β Β Use exceptions well