C++ Core Guidelines Explained: Best Practices for Modern C++

C++ expert instructor Rainer Grimm offers accessible, practical coverage of the Core Guidelines that offer the most value to students learning the C++ programming language. Offering new insights, indispensable context, and proven C++ examples drawn from his courses and seminars, Grimm helps students get more value from the guidelines.

The wide-ranging coverage of this text addresses C++ programming philosophy, interfaces, functions, classes, class hierarchies, enumerations, resource management, expressions, statements, performance, concurrency, error handling, constants, immutability, templates, generic programming, C-style programming, source files, the Standard Library, and more. Each section links to the original standard online, and wherever appropriate, Grimm previews advances from C++20 and C++23. With Grimm, students can use the C++ Core Guidelines to write C++ code that is more consistent, robust, and well-performing.