Lecture #25 - Standard Template Library (STL) - Details

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Content:

1. Syllabus
   Describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.

2. Projects:

   Project #3 - Code Publisher Client Project3HelpS2019 - includes:
   Client-Channel-Server Diagram
   Diagram showing use ofC++\CLI translater between WPF (C#) GUI and C++ Comm Channel. Prototype GUI for Project #3
   Demonstrating Requirements with a GUI
   The projects, below, are intended to help with Project #4. They are included so we can peek ahead to see where we need to go with Project #4. Project4Help WPF
   Illustrates techniques used for WPF to use Comm via C++\CLI. Prototype GUI for Project #3
   Uses C++\CLI translator to interoperate with C++ Comm to navigate a remote directory tree.
   Project #4, ver 1.1 - Remote Code Page Management Project4HelpS2019 - includes: Client-Channel-Server Diagram
   Diagram showing use ofC++\CLI translater between WPF (C#) GUI and C++ Comm Channel. Interop Help Demo class diagram, Interop Help Demo code
   Shows how to implement interoperation between C# and C++ as simply as practical. Creating C++\CLI Projects, pptx
   Mock Channel block diagram, Mock Channel
   Illustrates how to use .Net threads in a managed layer and C++ threads in a native layer. Communication Channel Structure
   Diagrams that show how asynchronous message passing communication works. Communication Channel Class Diagram
   Class diagram of our protype communication channel. Communication Channel Activities
   Activity diagram showing message flow through the communcation channel. CppCommWithFileXfer - Communication Channel Code
   Here's code you can use to implement message-passing communication. Project4HelpWPF code demo
   A getting-started GUI prototype that shows one way to build a client for Project #4. C++ Repository with WPF GUI - code demo
   This demo illustrates use of User Controls as well as remote directory navigation.

3. Finishing STL Discussion

   STL Structure, pptx
   Lots of example code Removing Items from Containers STL Details, docx STL Odds and Ends Presentation, pptx Calls to the operator() in Predicate Functors should not change the Functor's state .
   This is described in detail in the second required class text, "The C++ Standard Library", Second Edition, Josuttis,
   section 10.1.4, pages 483-486. Algorithms Demo std::shared_ptr<T>, std::unique_ptr<T>
   shared ownership and single owner pointers. XmlDocument uses std::shared_ptr<AbstractXmlElement>

4. Unit and Regression Testing

   FileSystem Unit Testing
   This demo illustrates the use of a light-weight test harness to support unit test and maintenance.

5. Design Principles:

   Review of design principles

6. C++11 - new features

   Herb Sutter's excellent and brief overview from his Blog

   C++11 additions

   C++11 concurrency
   Threads, locks, condition variables, async, futures, promises, packaged_tasks, and atomics

   C++11 BlockingQueue
   Uses condition variable and mutex to build a queue that blocks deQers when empty.

   Str strings
   Demonstrates move constructor and move assignment.

   Component Reference Counting
   Demonstrates variadic templates and functions.

   Symbol Table
   Illustrates how using aliases are a great design tool. Also demonstrates range-based for loops.

   Chrono Timer
   Uses Chrono library to build a high resolution timer precise to about 100 nanoseconds.

   Callable Objects
   Demonstrates lambdas and compares them to function pointers and functors.

   Singleton
   Uses atomic.

   Uniform Initialization
   Illustrates use of uniform initialization for user defined types and STL containers.

7. DLL Demo

   DLL Demo - implicit and explicit library loads
8. Other topics in the queue:
   • Packaging: Modules, Libraries, UIs, DLLs, and Programs
   • Managed C++ - C++/CLI, and its Syntax
   • Boltins, Veneers, and Constraints
   • Documenting OO Designs
   • Template Metaprogramming

9. Thinking about Software Design:

   Software Design Blog
   Summary of fundamental ideas. Object Oriented Design Blog
   Essential features of Object Oriented Design. Software Design Principles
   SRP, LSP, OCP, DIP, and ISP Software Design, ppt
   Broad survey of ideas with examples Design Strategies, pptx
   Summarizes design issues for modules and classes. Design Guidelines, pptx
   Design rules and idioms that transcend Object Oriented Design.
10. Common C++ Problems, pptx
11. Fragile Designs, pptx