Topics to learn more about

• C++ topics
• Exceptions
• Boost: Error and Exception Handling
• Abrahms: Lessons Learned from Specifying Exception-Safety for the C++ Standard Library
• Run-time type identification (RTTI)
• C++ standard library and Boost
• string, vector, deque
• A Beginner’s Tutorial For std::vector
• std::string
• std::bitset
• Allocators
• Smart pointers
• Boost: threads, transform_iterator, zip_iterator, etc.
• Locales
• Type traits (Boost::TypeTraits and an article)
• Type lists
• Thinking in C++, Volume 2
• Effective C++
• More Effective C++
• Effective STL
• Expression Templates: [1]
• The Software Optimization Cookbook — Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
• Call stacks and execution-level program control
• x86 and x86_64 architecture
• x86 and x86_64 assembler
• Processor intrinsics for C/C++
• Caches
• C code optimizations
• C++ code optimizations
• C++ Optimization Strategies and Techniques
• Making iterators as fast as for or while loops
• CERN: How to make your code more efficient
• For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerators, or None of the Above?
• Dr. Dobbs
• Lazy Containers
• Reap the benefits of the C++ Standard Template Library
• A comparison of image iterators
• Dr. Dobb’s Journal: Performance Portable C++
• C++ Home tutorial
• Multithreading and concurrency
• Intel TBB
• Coding Horror: Exploring Wide Finder
• Performance — benchmarking, tuning, and tools
• Chris Cox’s C++ Performance Blog
• AMD CodeAnalyst
• Re-entrancy and signal handling — AUP
• Object-oriented analysis and design
• Aspect-oriented design
• Software construction
• Kent Beck — Implementation Patterns
• Neal Ford — The Productive Programmer
• Robert Martin — Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• Data structures
• Operating systems design
• Compiler design
• Programming methodology
• Hardware design’s impact on performance
• Kernel design
• vi — know enough to open, edit, save a file
• C standard library — using Plauger book
• Wide character support in stdlib
• Complexity and “big O” notation — Data Structures and Algorithms (Aho, et al.)
• Static code analysis
• Automata
• XCode
• UNIX debug tools
• Executable formats
• Windows debugging tools
• Filesystems
• Heap management
• C and C++ Memory models
• Algorithms
• Sorting
• Searching
• Doxygen

Covered Topics

• GNU make
• Function calling modes
• Iterators
• Generic programming
• Generic Programming and the STL, Matthew H. Austern
• C++ topics
• Syntax, capabilities, and program design philosophy — Thinking in C++, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, Bruce Eckel
• Namespaces
• Friends
• C++ Templates
• OO Design patterns
• UML
• Intel TBB

Reading List

• C++ Templates: The Complete Guide, Vandevoorde and Josuttis
• The Productive Programmer, Neal Ford
• The Art of Agile Development, Shore and Warden
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, Robert Martin
• Refactoring, Robert Martin
• Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky
• Concurrent Programming on Windows, Joe Duffy
• Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied, Andrei Alexandrescu
• Exceptional C++, Herb Sutter
• Effective C++, Scott Meyers
• Beautiful Code, Oram and Wilson