Topics to learn more about

• C++ topics
• Exceptions
• Run-time type identification (RTTI)
• Friends
• 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
• Call stacks and execution-level program control
• x86 and x86_64 architecture
• x86 and x86_64 assembler
• Multithreading and concurrency
• Intel TBB
• Coding Horror: Exploring Wide Finder
• Re-entrancy and signal handling — AUP
• 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++
• Performance — benchmarking, tuning, and tools
• Chris Cox’s C++ Performance Blog
• Design patterns
• Object-oriented analysis and design
• UML
• 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
• Templates