effective-modern-cpp

Effective Modern C++

My learning notes and practice codes for book Effective Modern C++ (by Scott Meyers).

Chapter 1. Deducing Types

• Item 1. Understand template type deduction
• Item 2. Understand auto type deduction
• Item 3. Understand decltype
• Item 4. Know how to view deduced types

Chapter 2. auto

• Item 5. Prefer auto to explicit type declarations
• Item 6. Use the explicity typed initializer idiom when auto deduces undesired types

Chapter 3. Moving to Modern C++

• Item 7. Distinguish between () and {} when creating objects
• Item 8. Prefer nullptr to 0 and NULL
• Item 9. Prefer alias declarations to typedefs
• Item 10. Prefer scoped enums to unscoped enums
• Item 11. Prefer deleted functions to private undefined ones
• Item 12. Declare overriding functions override
• Item 13. Prefer const_iterators to iterators
• Item 14. Declare functions noexcept if they won't emit exceptions
• Item 15. User constexpr whenever possible
• Item 16. Make const member functions thread safe
• Item 17. Understand special member function generation

Chapter 4. Smart Pointers

References

• Scott Meyers's homepage
• Videos: Scott Meyers - Effective Modern C++