Effective Programming with Boost
Advanced Boost Library Use
Module 1: Strings and Text
- Converting string to and from numerical values
- Localisation and Unicode
- Type safe formatting of arguments using a format-string
- Regular expressions
- Splitting strings into tokens
Module 2: Utilities
- Foreach and assign
- Automatic operators
- Smart pointers
- Variants and Visitors
Module 3: Input / Output and System
- Streams
- Stream buffers
- I/O filters
- Serialisation
- Program Options
- Time and Date
Module 4: Networking
- Sockets
- Hostname resolution
- Socket I/O streams
- Timers
Module 5: Function Objects
- Boost function
- Binding parameters
- Lambda expressions
- Signals and Slots
Module 6: Mathematics
- Rational numbers
- Common factors
- Statistical distributions
- Special functions
- Random number generators
Module 7: Containers, Iterators and Algorithms
- Constant sized arrays
- Bi-directional maps
- Cyclic buffers
- Propery map
- Property tree
- Boost extension of STL containers
- Creating iterators
Module 8: Generic Programming
- Type traits
- Concept checking
- Conditional template specialisation
Module 9: Metaprogramming using MPL
- Compile time programming
- Sequences
- Algorithms
- Metafunctions
Module 10: Function Types
- The need for inspection
- Decomposing functions
- Synthesising functions