Clean C++: Sustainable Software Development Patterns and Best Practices with C++ 17

Write maintainable, extensible, and durable software with modern C++. This book is a must for every developer, software architect, or team leader who is interested in good C++ code, and thus also wants to save development costs. If you want to teach yourself about writing clean C++, Clean C++ is exactly what you need. It is written to help C++ developers of all skill levels and shows by example how to write understandable, flexible, maintainable, and efficient C++ code. Even if you are a seasoned C++ developer, there are nuggets and data points in this book that you will find useful in your work.

If you don’t take care with your code, you can produce a large, messy, and unmaintainable beast in any programming language. However, C++ projects in particular are prone to be messy and tend to slip into bad habits. Lots of C++ code that is written today looks as if it was written in the 1980s.

It seems that C++ developers have been forg

otten by those who preach Software Craftsmanship and Clean Code principles. The Web is full of bad, but apparently very fast and highly optimized C++ code examples, with cruel syntax that completely ignores elementary principles of good design and well-written code. This book will explain how to avoid this scenario and how to get the most out of your C++ code. You’ll find your coding becomes more efficient and, importantly, more fun.

What You’ll Learn

• Gain sound principles and rules for clean coding in C++
• Carry out test driven development (TDD)
• Discover C++ design patterns and idioms
• Apply these design patterns

Who This Book Is For

Any C++ developer and software engineer with an interest in producing better code.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Build a Safety Net
Chapter 3: Be Principled
Chapter 4: Basics of Clean C++
Chapter 5: Advanced Concepts of Modern C++
Chapter 6: Object Orientation
Chapter 7: Functional Programming
Chapter 8: Test-Driven Development
Chapter 9: Design Patterns and Idioms
Appendix A: Small UML Guide