Modern C++ Software Design (Advanced)

Agenda & Content

1st day – Monday, 2 March 2026   (9:00 – 16:30, lunch break 12:30 – 13:30)

• The Basic Design Principles  
  
  
  • Defining a Goal
  • The SOLID Principles  
     
• Concepts and the STL  
  
  
  • Motivation
  • STL Algorithms
  • STL Allocators

 

2nd day – Tuesday, 3 March 2026   (9:00 – 16:30, lunch break 12:30 – 13:30)

• Advanced Templates  
  
  
  • Type Traits
  • SFINAE
  • C++20 Concepts  
     
• Class Design  
  
  
  • Compiler Generated Functions
  • Exception Safety
  • Copy Elision

 

3rd day – Wednesday, 4 March 2026   (9:00 – 16:30, lunch break 12:30 – 13:30)

• Class Design  
  
  
  • Move Semantics
  • Return Values and Parameters
  • Member Data
  • Applied Class Design
  • Visibility vs. Accessibility  
     
• Dynamic Polymorphism  
  
  
  • The Perils of Inheritance

 

4th day – Thursday, 5 March 2026   (9:00 – 15:30, lunch break 12:30 – 13:30)

• Dynamic Polymorphism  
  
  
  • Value Semantics 
    
    
    • Visitor (Classic vs. Modern)
    • Strategy (Classic vs. Modern)
    • Type Erasure 
       
  • Public Inheritance 
     
    • Examples for good public inheritance
    • Examples for bad public inheritance 
       
  • Surprises in Inheritance Hierarchies  
     
• Design of HPC Components  
  
  
  • Motivation
  • SIMD Basics
  • Vectors and Matrices
  • Dense Matrix/Dense Vector Multiplication