Video Course: Introduction to C++

Brief course overview.

An overview of the C++ Language, the C++ Standard Library, modern C++ Standards, and C++ compilers.

A step-by-step guide to installing Visual Studio on Windows, and compiling and running a simple "Hello World!" application.

A step-by-step guide to installing GCC (g++) and VS Code on Linux, and compiling and running a simple "Hello World!" application from the command line.

A step-by-step guide to installing Xcode command-line tools and VS Code on macOS, and compiling and running a simple "Hello World!" application from the command line using the clang++ compiler.

Introduction to the program's main entry point.

An overview of built-in types in C++.

Introduction to the char built-in type, used to represent a single character.

Introduction to the int built-in type, used to represent integer numbers.

Introduction to the double built-in type in C++.

Using type modifiers to modify a type's signedness and width in memory.

Introduction to common operators in C++.

Introduction to standard input and output in C++.

Introduction to arrays in C++.

Introduction to pointers in C++.

Introduction to reference types in C++.

Introduction to built-in statements in C++.

The built-in if statement in C++.

The built-in switch statement in C++.

Using the built-in for statement in C++.

Using the built-in while statement in C++.

Using the built-in do-while statement in C++.

Introduction to constants in C++.

Introduction to strings and the std::string type in C++.

Introduction to automatic type deduction in C++.

Introduction to functions in C++.

Introduction to the return statement in C++.

Introduction to declaring function parameters and passing arguments by value, reference, and const-reference in C++.

Introduction to overloading functions in C++.

Introduction to dynamic memory allocation in C++.

Introduction to using enumerations in C++.

Introduction to using namespaces to logically organize our C++ source code.

Using header and source files to organize and split our C++ code into declarations and definitions.

Introduction to implicit and explicit type conversions in C++.

Introduction to error handling through exceptions in C++.

Introduction to C++ classes including class definitions, data members, member functions, visibility specifiers, and class instances - objects.

Introduction to special class member functions, such as constructors and destructors.

Introduction to the copy constructor in C++.

Introduction to the copy assignment operator in C++.

Introduction to the move constructor in C++.

Introduction to the move assignment operator in C++.

Introduction to class inheritance in C++.

Introduction to runtime polymorphism in C++ through inheritance, virtual and overridden member functions, and base class pointers to derived class instances.

An overview of templates in C++ and an introduction to creating function templates.

Introduction to creating class templates in C++.

Introduction to template specialization in C++.

Introduction to unique pointers in C++.

Introduction to shared pointers in C++.

An overview of the C++ Standard Template Library.

Introduction to the dynamically resizable std::vector container.

Introduction to the range-based loop.

Introduction to iterators.

Introduction to the fixed-size std::array container.

Introduction to the std::set container.

Introduction to the associative std::map container.

Introduction to the std::sort algorithm.

The std::count function from the C++ Standard Library.

Video explaining the use of the std::find function.

Introduction to lambda expressions.