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Apply object-oriented design concepts in C++ using direct language features and refined programming techniques

Discover sophisticated programming solutions with nuances to become an efficient programmer

Explore design patterns as proven solutions for writing scalable and maintainable C++ software

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Even though object-oriented software design enables more easily maintainable code, companies choose C++ as an OO language for its speed. Object-oriented programming in C++ is not automatic – it is crucial to understand OO concepts and how they map to both C++ language features and OOP techniques. Distinguishing your code by utilizing well-tested, creative solutions, which can be found in popular design patterns, is crucial in today’s marketplace. This book will help you to harness OOP in C++ to write better code. Starting with the essential C++ features, which serve as building blocks for the key chapters, this book focuses on explaining fundamental object-oriented concepts and shows you how to implement them in C++. With the help of practical code examples and diagrams, you’ll learn how and why things work. The book’s coverage furthers your C++ repertoire by including templates, exceptions, operator overloading, STL, and OO component testing. You’ll discover popular design patterns with in-depth examples and understand how to use them as effective programming solutions to solve recurring OOP problems. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to employ essential and advanced OOP concepts to create enduring and robust software.

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Programmers wanting to utilize C++ for OOP will find this book essential to understand how to implement OO designs in C++ through both language features and refined programming techniques while creating robust and easily maintainable code. This OOP book assumes prior programming experience; however, if you have limited or no prior C++ experience, the early chapters will help you learn essential C++ skills to serve as the basis for the many OOP sections, advanced features, and design patterns.

What you will learn

Quickly learn core C++ programming skills to develop a base for essential OOP features in C++

Implement OO designs using C++ language features and proven programming techniques

Understand how well-designed, encapsulated code helps make more easily maintainable software

Write robust C++ code that can handle programming exceptions

Design extensible and generic code using templates

Apply operator overloading, utilize STL, and perform OO component testing

Examine popular design patterns to provide creative solutions for typical OO problems

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Brian Smyth Mar 06, 2023

This is an excellent book for the intro level C++ student as well as more advanced students. The most important aspect of a good C++ developer is understanding good OOD/P. Ms Kirk breaks down complex and difficult elements of OOP to advance even a knowledgeable C++ developer. The complexities of abstraction, multiple inheritance, templates and leveraging patterns and the dangers of using them poorly is explained in simple yet complete concepts for all student levels. It's a must have book.

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H Gregory Silber Sep 26, 2022

Firstly, I was excited to see a new OOP text focused on C++ as a programming language. There has been a trend to simplify the teaching of OOP through using higher level languages; however, these languages often obscure the underlying structure and complexity for various tasks. This text does an admirable job of covering both the C++ language and Object-Oriented principles side by side through interesting examples and well written discussions. The questions at the end of each section are well designed to highlight the concepts, and test for common misconceptions.While not the core purpose of the book, I found the discussions on indirect addressing particularly well-constructed. This is the single most common issue for students learning C/C++. The way the author presents the material is clear and easy to understand. By stressing the hardware implications (layout, etc.) the author makes this difficult topic accessible. Even if programmers may prefer smart pointers (which the author also covers), students need to understand indirect addressing at its core, as a key programming concept that they will inevitably need to utilize and understand well.Part 2 of the text really gets to the heart of C++'s power for object-oriented programming. The chapter (7) on polymorphism goes deeper than many texts into the actual implementation of polymorphism (vtable) to help the reader understand not just that it works, but how and why it works. I also liked the way the author handled the controversial topic of multiple inheritance.The discussions of some of the newer or more obscure features of C++ including templates, the STL, smart pointers, and exception handling is well done, and follows smoothly from the previous sections.My favorite part of the text is part 4 which discusses design patterns. Often, when teaching OOP, we spend so much time on the language constructs that we ignore the higher-level concepts of how we build applications. The author justifies each design pattern with appropriate use cases to show not just how to implement these patterns, but when they are appropriate, and how they simplify design. The examples are simple, yet sufficient to get the concepts across.If I have a complaint with the text, it is that it is encompasses so many topics that it would be very difficult to cover the material in a single semester which is often all that is available to courses on OOP at the undergraduate level, especially while teaching the language at the same time.As a faculty member who teaches undergraduate courses, I think this is an excellent introductory text for OOP and the C++ language applicable to undergraduate students as well as being a useful reference for them throughout their careers. If possible, I will use this text with future classes.

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Anand Iyengar Oct 22, 2022

Great book. I bought it as a reference and am super happy that I did. This is an excellent book on C++ and object oriented programming. It has great explanations on the language - it covers higher level features like templates and polymorphism, and also low level details like the mechanics of v-tables. There are plenty of code examples and with explanations, making it easy to follow along with a computer and better understand. The structure of the book works well both for people newly learning the language and also for more experienced engineers to use as a reference.The way the book covers C++ and the detail that it goes into make it a great way to learn the language. It goes from basics to advanced parts of the language and has lots of examples and code. It covers object oriented programming, as well.The book starts with C++ basics and then covers object oriented concepts and maps them to C++ (classes, single and multiple inheritance, polymorphism, ...). The middle part of the book goes into detail about the language - features (eg. exceptions, operator overloading, templates, the Standard Template Library). It also covers important details like r-value references and move/move-copy constructors. The book also covers very important design patterns - this includes Observers, Factories, Adapters, Singletons, and Opaque Pointers, which are very commonly used in industry. It also has section on safe programming in C++, which is especially important with C++ relatively transparent memory access model; it covers smart pointers and ways to program safely, including thread safety and multi-threaded programming. Also the book's chapters include a section at the end with questions to help learn the language.The structure of the book also makes it an excellent as a reference. There is effectively a 3 level hierarchy that the book uses to lay out the material that makes it especially good as a language reference: Parts > Chapters > Sections. The 5 Parts of the book break the language into areas: basics and essentials, object oriented concepts, key C++ concepts, design patterns, and safety. Each Part starts with a summary of what the chapters in that Part will cover. There are 21 chapters to present these different parts of the language. Each chapter is broken up into sections, making it easy to jump to what is need. Each chapter in the book starts with a quick summary of what it covers, and then a number of sections that go into technical requirements, deep dives for understanding the details, implementation overviews, a summary section, and finally a questions section for more in depth learning (N/A for 21).

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Tiny Nov 18, 2022

Many programmers start their journey with C++ as a compiled code. “Decipher Object-Oriented Programming with C++” (Packt) by Dorothy Kirk helps to accelerate practices by providing a framework to move from basic C++ concepts to incorporating Object-Oriented (OO) architectures. Starting with C++ basic, the book moves to create inheritance and connections within the code to maximize reuse and minimize the original code required. This then advances to either using standard templates or making your own as well as some of the basic creation patterns used for OO programming. Each section includes well-commented code to precisely follow what each item is intended to do, and practice examples to further your knowledge. The first section, as with many coding books, revisits the syntax and unique areas needed for C++ coding. In addition the language, the section also details using indirect pointers, a key part of C++ in assigning memory allocation and removing those linkages when complete. The next section then moves into those OO areas in creating classes, adjusting inheritance between the classes, and some tips on creating multiple inheritance. Each of these functions is key to learning how to maximize C++ through using the features unique to this code language in building effective tools. Section three jumps into creating exceptions, implementing templates, and testing your code throughout. If you haven’t used C++, the constructs, using throw, catch, and try provides language tools where you can specify areas of code to break the loop and function in certain areas and report out unique errors. Understanding and building these constructions helps make sure the user interaction can’t break your well-designed code by not reading the segment instructions. Finally, the book addresses some common design processes for OO including observer, adapter, factory, and singleton. Each details the benefits and advantages for those patterns, shows how to build those templates, and describes both simple and advanced cases for those solutions. Finally the book includes an overall set of best practices to help make your C++ language more secure through using the skills developed in the previous 20 chapters. One complaint is that I felt the output of the coding sections was too far in the text from where the code was located. Again, not a problem with the knowledge contained but how I experienced that knowledge in moving through the book. It might be better in a print copy than an ecopy but I found the program outputs were usually several pages after where the actual code was located. Overall, this was an excellent walk through of how to move your C++ code into an object-oriented framework. I’d recommend for anyone currently using C++ or programming professionals helping to obtain a broader idea of how different languages function. I learned a lot, and enjoyed walking through the beautiful code samples, which was an unusual change for me.

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