Complete C++ Programming Masterclass
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Program Overview
This is not just a course—it's a complete transformation into a professional C++ developer. C++ powers the world's most critical systems: operating systems, game engines, embedded devices, trading systems, and browsers. This 12-month masterclass takes you from absolute beginner to expert C++ developer, capable of building high-performance applications, system-level software, game engines, and solving complex algorithmic problems. You'll master modern C++ standards, STL, memory management, multithreading, and specialized domains like game development and competitive programming.
What Makes This Program Different
- Starts from absolute zero - no programming experience needed
- Complete 12-month structured curriculum with modern C++ (up to C++23)
- Covers entire C++ ecosystem: STL, Boost, system APIs, graphics
- 40+ real-world projects including games, system tools, and algorithms
- Deep dive into memory management and performance optimization
- Competitive programming and interview preparation included
- Game development with C++ and graphics programming
- System programming and embedded development
- Lifetime access with updates for new C++ standards
- Build portfolio of production-quality C++ applications
Your Learning Journey
Career Progression
Detailed Course Curriculum
Explore the complete week-by-week breakdown of what you'll learn in this comprehensive program.
📚 Topics Covered
- History and evolution of C++ (C++98 to C++23)
- Why C++? Performance, control, and applications
- Setting up development environment (VS Code, Visual Studio, CLion)
- Compilers: GCC, Clang, MSVC
- Writing your first C++ program
- Program structure: headers, main function, return
- Compilation process: preprocessing, compilation, linking
- Basic input/output with iostream
- Comments and code documentation
- Namespaces and using directive
🚀 Projects
- Hello World variations
- Simple calculator with basic operations
- Temperature converter
- Personal information display program
💪 Practice
Write 20 simple console programs
📚 Topics Covered
- Fundamental data types: int, float, double, char, bool
- Type modifiers: signed, unsigned, short, long
- Variable declaration and initialization
- Constants: const and constexpr
- Auto keyword and type inference
- Arithmetic operators and precedence
- Relational and logical operators
- Bitwise operators and bit manipulation
- Assignment and compound assignment operators
- Increment and decrement operators
🚀 Projects
- Advanced calculator with bitwise operations
- Data type size explorer
- Number system converter (binary, decimal, hex)
- Bitwise flag management system
💪 Practice
Solve 50 problems on operators and type manipulation
📚 Topics Covered
- If-else statements and nested conditions
- Switch-case statements
- Conditional (ternary) operator
- While, do-while loops
- For loops and range-based for (C++11)
- Break, continue, and goto
- Function declaration and definition
- Function parameters: pass by value, reference, pointer
- Return types and return by reference
- Function overloading
🚀 Projects
- Menu-driven banking system
- Number guessing game
- Prime number generator
- Recursive factorial and Fibonacci calculator
- Pattern printing programs
💪 Practice
Implement 30 algorithms using functions
📚 Topics Covered
- Static arrays: declaration and initialization
- Array operations and bounds checking
- Multidimensional arrays
- C-style strings and string operations
- std::string class and string manipulation
- String streams (stringstream)
- Introduction to pointers
- Pointer arithmetic
- Arrays and pointers relationship
- Dynamic memory allocation: new and delete
🚀 Projects
- Dynamic array implementation
- String manipulation library
- Matrix operations calculator
- Memory management demonstration
- Text-based adventure game
💪 Practice
Master 40 pointer and array problems
📚 Topics Covered
- Classes and objects fundamentals
- Class members: data and functions
- Access specifiers: public, private, protected
- Constructors and destructors
- Constructor types: default, parameterized, copy
- Initializer lists
- This pointer
- Static members and methods
- Friend functions and classes
- Nested classes
🚀 Projects
- Bank account management system
- Student record system
- Complex number class
- Date and time class
- Custom string class implementation
💪 Practice
Create 20 different classes modeling real-world objects
📚 Topics Covered
- Inheritance concepts and types
- Single, multiple, multilevel inheritance
- Virtual inheritance and diamond problem
- Function overriding
- Virtual functions and vtable
- Pure virtual functions and abstract classes
- Interfaces in C++
- Runtime polymorphism
- Dynamic binding
- Virtual destructors
🚀 Projects
- Shape hierarchy with area calculations
- Employee management system with inheritance
- Game character class hierarchy
- Vehicle simulation system
- Plugin architecture using polymorphism
💪 Practice
Build 15 inheritance hierarchies
📚 Topics Covered
- Operator overloading concepts
- Overloading arithmetic operators
- Overloading comparison operators
- Overloading assignment operator
- Overloading stream operators (<<, >>)
- Overloading function call operator
- Overloading subscript operator []
- Type conversion operators
- Explicit keyword
- Copy and swap idiom
🚀 Projects
- Mathematical vector class with operators
- Custom array class with subscript operator
- Fraction class with all operators
- Matrix class with operations
- PHASE 1 CAPSTONE: Complete OOP Library Management System
🎯 Assessment
Phase 1 comprehensive exam on C++ fundamentals and OOP
📚 Topics Covered
- STL overview and architecture
- Sequence containers: vector, deque, list, array
- Container adapters: stack, queue, priority_queue
- Associative containers: set, map, multiset, multimap
- Unordered containers: unordered_set, unordered_map
- Container operations and time complexity
- Choosing the right container
- Custom allocators
- Container memory management
- Iterators: types and usage
🚀 Projects
- Student database using STL containers
- Text editor with undo/redo using stack
- Priority task scheduler
- Dictionary implementation with map
- Cache implementation with unordered_map
💪 Practice
Implement 30 algorithms using different STL containers
📚 Topics Covered
- Algorithm categories in STL
- Non-modifying sequence operations
- Modifying sequence operations
- Sorting algorithms: sort, partial_sort, nth_element
- Searching algorithms: find, binary_search, lower_bound
- Numeric algorithms: accumulate, inner_product
- Set operations: union, intersection, difference
- Heap operations
- Permutation algorithms
- Lambda expressions with algorithms
🚀 Projects
- Data analysis tool using STL algorithms
- Sorting visualizer
- Set operations calculator
- Performance comparison of algorithms
- Custom algorithm library
💪 Practice
Use 50 different STL algorithms in various scenarios
📚 Topics Covered
- Function templates
- Class templates
- Template parameters: type and non-type
- Template specialization
- Partial specialization
- Variadic templates (C++11)
- Template metaprogramming basics
- SFINAE (Substitution Failure Is Not An Error)
- Type traits and type manipulation
- Template template parameters
🚀 Projects
- Generic data structures library
- Type-safe unit conversion system
- Compile-time math library
- Template-based design patterns
- Custom smart pointer implementation
💪 Practice
Create 20 template-based utilities
📚 Topics Covered
- Auto and decltype
- Range-based for loops
- Lambda expressions and captures
- Rvalue references and move semantics
- Perfect forwarding
- Smart pointers: unique_ptr, shared_ptr, weak_ptr
- std::thread and basic threading
- std::chrono for time management
- Random number generation
- Regular expressions
🚀 Projects
- Modern C++ file manager
- Multi-threaded downloader
- Regular expression validator
- Time measurement utilities
- Resource management system with smart pointers
💪 Practice
Refactor old code using modern C++ features
📚 Topics Covered
- Exception handling mechanism
- Try, catch, and throw
- Exception specifications
- Standard exception classes
- Custom exception classes
- Exception safety guarantees
- RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization)
- noexcept specifier
- Error codes vs exceptions
- std::expected (C++23)
🚀 Projects
- Robust file processing system
- Exception-safe container
- Error handling framework
- Resource manager with RAII
- Custom error reporting system
💪 Practice
Add proper error handling to 10 previous projects
📚 Topics Covered
- Linked lists: singly, doubly, circular
- Stack and queue implementations
- Binary trees and BST
- AVL trees and balancing
- Red-black trees
- B-trees and B+ trees
- Heaps and priority queues
- Hash tables and collision resolution
- Graphs: representation and traversal
- Tries and suffix trees
🚀 Projects
- Custom STL-like container library
- Database index implementation
- Autocomplete system using trie
- Graph visualization tool
- Memory-efficient data structures
💪 Practice
Implement 20 data structures from scratch
📚 Topics Covered
- Algorithm complexity analysis
- Divide and conquer algorithms
- Dynamic programming techniques
- Greedy algorithms
- Backtracking algorithms
- Graph algorithms: DFS, BFS, Dijkstra, Floyd-Warshall
- Minimum spanning tree: Kruskal, Prim
- Network flow algorithms
- String algorithms: KMP, Rabin-Karp
- Computational geometry basics
🚀 Projects
- Pathfinding visualizer
- String matching tool
- Optimization problem solver
- Algorithm complexity analyzer
- Competitive programming library
💪 Practice
Solve 100 algorithmic problems
📚 Topics Covered
- Profiling tools: gprof, Valgrind, perf
- CPU architecture and cache optimization
- Memory layout and alignment
- Branch prediction and optimization
- Loop optimization techniques
- Vectorization and SIMD instructions
- Compiler optimizations and flags
- Link-time optimization
- Profile-guided optimization
- Memory pooling and custom allocators
🚀 Projects
- Performance profiler tool
- Optimized matrix multiplication
- Memory pool allocator
- Cache-friendly data structures
- Benchmark suite for algorithms
💪 Practice
Optimize 10 programs for maximum performance
📚 Topics Covered
- Competitive programming platforms
- Problem-solving strategies
- Fast I/O techniques
- Common problem patterns
- Number theory for CP
- Combinatorics and probability
- Game theory basics
- Bit manipulation tricks
- String algorithms for CP
- Advanced data structures for CP
🚀 Projects
- Competitive programming template
- Problem classifier and trainer
- Contest performance analyzer
- Algorithm reference implementation
- Virtual contest environment
💪 Practice
Solve 200 competitive programming problems
📚 Topics Covered
- Complex system design
- Algorithm selection and implementation
- Performance optimization
- Code organization and documentation
- Testing and debugging
🚀 Projects
- PHASE 2 CAPSTONE: High-Performance Database Engine
- Build a simple database with indexing, querying, and transactions
- Implement B+ tree indexes, query optimizer, and transaction manager
- Focus on performance and correctness
🎯 Assessment
Phase 2 comprehensive exam on STL, templates, and algorithms
📚 Topics Covered
- Process and memory model
- System calls and OS APIs
- File system operations
- Process creation and management
- Inter-process communication (IPC)
- Shared memory
- Message queues
- Pipes and named pipes
- Signals and signal handling
- Memory mapping with mmap
🚀 Projects
- Custom shell implementation
- Process monitor and manager
- IPC messaging system
- File system utilities
- System information tool
💪 Practice
Build 10 system-level utilities
📚 Topics Covered
- Virtual memory concepts
- Memory allocation strategies
- Custom memory allocators
- Memory pools and arenas
- Garbage collection techniques
- Reference counting implementation
- Memory debugging tools
- Leak detection and prevention
- Memory-mapped I/O
- Cache-conscious programming
🚀 Projects
- Custom malloc implementation
- Garbage collector prototype
- Memory leak detector
- Memory-efficient container library
- Cache performance analyzer
💪 Practice
Implement 5 different memory allocation strategies
📚 Topics Covered
- Thread creation and management
- Thread synchronization primitives
- Mutexes and locks
- Condition variables
- Semaphores and barriers
- Read-write locks
- Atomic operations and memory ordering
- Lock-free programming
- Thread pools and executors
- Futures and promises
🚀 Projects
- Thread pool implementation
- Producer-consumer system
- Parallel sorting algorithm
- Lock-free queue
- Concurrent web server
💪 Practice
Build 15 multithreaded applications
📚 Topics Covered
- Socket programming basics
- TCP/IP protocol suite
- UDP vs TCP programming
- Client-server architecture
- Non-blocking I/O
- I/O multiplexing: select, poll, epoll
- Asynchronous I/O
- Protocol design and implementation
- Serialization and deserialization
- RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
🚀 Projects
- Chat server and client
- HTTP server from scratch
- File transfer protocol implementation
- Distributed computing framework
- Network packet analyzer
💪 Practice
Create 10 network applications
📚 Topics Covered
- Database connectivity (ODBC, native APIs)
- SQL query execution from C++
- Connection pooling
- Transaction management
- Prepared statements
- ORM implementation basics
- NoSQL database interfaces
- Embedded databases (SQLite)
- Database driver development
- Query optimization from application
🚀 Projects
- Database connection pool
- Simple ORM framework
- Database migration tool
- Query builder library
- Cache layer implementation
💪 Practice
Build 5 database-driven applications
📚 Topics Covered
- Compilation process deep dive
- Lexical analysis basics
- Parsing techniques
- Abstract syntax trees
- Code generation basics
- Writing a simple interpreter
- JIT compilation concepts
- LLVM basics
- Build systems: Make, CMake, Bazel
- Static analysis tools
🚀 Projects
- Simple expression evaluator
- Mini programming language interpreter
- Build system for C++ projects
- Static code analyzer
- Code generator for repetitive tasks
💪 Practice
Create 5 development tools
📚 Topics Covered
- Embedded C++ considerations
- Memory-constrained programming
- Real-time systems concepts
- Interrupt handling
- Device driver basics
- Bare-metal programming
- RTOS integration
- Hardware abstraction layers
- Cross-compilation for embedded
- Debugging embedded systems
🚀 Projects
- Embedded system simulator
- Device driver prototype
- Real-time task scheduler
- Sensor data logger
- IoT device firmware
💪 Practice
Develop 5 embedded applications
📚 Topics Covered
- Secure coding practices
- Buffer overflow prevention
- Input validation techniques
- Cryptography basics
- Hash functions implementation
- Encryption algorithms
- SSL/TLS implementation basics
- Authentication systems
- Secure random number generation
- Code obfuscation techniques
🚀 Projects
- Encryption library
- Secure communication protocol
- Password manager
- Security scanner
- Secure file storage system
💪 Practice
Implement 10 security features
📚 Topics Covered
- Graphics pipeline overview
- OpenGL/DirectX basics
- 2D graphics rendering
- 3D mathematics for graphics
- Shaders and GLSL
- Texture mapping
- Lighting models
- Camera systems
- Scene graphs
- Collision detection
🚀 Projects
- 2D graphics renderer
- 3D scene viewer
- Particle system simulator
- Simple GUI framework
- Graphics effects library
💪 Practice
Create 5 graphics applications
📚 Topics Covered
- System design and architecture
- Component integration
- Performance requirements
- Testing and validation
- Documentation and deployment
🚀 Projects
- PHASE 3 CAPSTONE: Distributed Computing System
- Build a distributed task processing system
- Include networking, multithreading, and IPC
- Focus on scalability and fault tolerance
🎯 Assessment
Phase 3 comprehensive exam on system programming
📚 Topics Covered
- Game architecture patterns
- Game loops and timing
- Entity-Component-System (ECS)
- Physics engine basics
- Collision detection algorithms
- Game AI fundamentals
- Pathfinding algorithms
- State machines for games
- Asset management
- Memory management for games
🚀 Projects
- 2D game engine from scratch
- Physics simulation
- AI for game NPCs
- Multiplayer game prototype
- Game performance profiler
💪 Practice
Build 3 complete games
📚 Topics Covered
- Parallel computing concepts
- OpenMP programming
- MPI for distributed computing
- CUDA/GPU programming basics
- Vectorization with SIMD
- Cache optimization techniques
- NUMA optimization
- High-performance libraries
- Scientific computing with C++
- Numerical methods implementation
🚀 Projects
- Parallel matrix operations
- Scientific computing library
- GPU-accelerated algorithm
- Distributed computing application
- Performance benchmark suite
💪 Practice
Optimize 10 computationally intensive algorithms
📚 Topics Covered
- Low-latency programming
- Lock-free data structures for trading
- Order matching engines
- Market data processing
- Risk calculation systems
- Backtesting frameworks
- FIX protocol implementation
- High-frequency trading concepts
- Time-series databases
- Quantitative libraries
🚀 Projects
- Order matching engine
- Market data feed handler
- Risk calculator
- Backtesting framework
- Trading system simulator
💪 Practice
Build 5 financial applications
📚 Topics Covered
- C++20/23 features deep dive
- Modules system
- Coroutines advanced usage
- Ranges library
- Concepts and constraints
- Three-way comparison
- Design patterns in modern C++
- Dependency injection
- Event-driven architectures
- Microservices with C++
🚀 Projects
- Modern C++ web service
- Microservice architecture
- Event-driven system
- Design patterns library
- C++20/23 feature showcase
💪 Practice
Refactor projects using latest C++ features
📚 Topics Covered
- Finding C++ open source projects
- Understanding large codebases
- Code review process
- Writing quality patches
- Documentation contributions
- Testing and CI/CD
- Community interaction
- Starting your own project
- License selection
- Project maintenance
🚀 Projects
- Contribute to major C++ project
- Create and publish C++ library
- Write comprehensive documentation
- Set up CI/CD pipeline
- Build project community
💪 Practice
Make 10 open source contributions
📚 Topics Covered
- C++ interview questions
- Memory management questions
- OOP concepts review
- STL and algorithms questions
- System design for C++
- Coding challenges
- Debugging exercises
- Code review scenarios
- Performance optimization questions
- Modern C++ topics
🚀 Projects
- Interview question solver
- Coding challenge solutions
- System design portfolio
- Code review examples
- Performance case studies
💪 Practice
Solve 200 interview problems
📚 Topics Covered
- Selecting best projects
- Code cleanup and documentation
- README writing
- API documentation
- Performance metrics
- Test coverage
- CI/CD setup
- GitHub profile optimization
- Personal website creation
- Technical blog writing
🚀 Projects
- Portfolio website
- Project showcases
- Technical blog posts
- Video tutorials
- Architecture documentation
💪 Practice
Polish and document all major projects
📚 Topics Covered
- C++ career opportunities
- Game development careers
- Systems programming roles
- Embedded systems positions
- Financial technology jobs
- High-performance computing
- Graphics programming
- Compiler development
- Security engineering
- Research positions
🚀 Projects
- Career roadmap
- Specialization project
- Industry research
- Network building
- Job application materials
💪 Practice
Apply to 20 relevant positions
📚 Topics Covered
- Code review best practices
- Team collaboration
- Agile methodologies
- Version control mastery
- Documentation standards
- Testing strategies
- Debugging techniques
- Performance profiling
- Project estimation
- Technical leadership
🚀 Projects
- Team project simulation
- Code review portfolio
- Testing framework
- Documentation templates
- Mentorship materials
💪 Practice
Practice professional skills daily
📚 Topics Covered
- Project planning and scoping
- Architecture design
- Implementation
- Testing and optimization
- Documentation
- Presentation preparation
- Peer review
- Deployment
- Project showcase
- Career launch planning
🚀 Projects
- FINAL CAPSTONE: Production-Grade C++ Application
- Choose from: Game Engine, Trading System, Embedded OS, Distributed Database
- Must demonstrate mastery of C++, system design, and specialization
- Include full documentation, tests, and deployment
🎯 Assessment
Final comprehensive examination and project defense
📚 Topics Covered
- Following C++ standards committee
- Reading committee papers
- Testing new features
- Compiler updates
- Library developments
- Community involvement
- Conference attendance
- CppCon and other events
- Online resources
- Books and publications
🚀 Projects
- Experimental features testing
- Standards proposal review
- Community contribution
- Learning resource creation
- Knowledge sharing
💪 Practice
Dedicate 5 hours/week to C++ advancement
📚 Topics Covered
- C++ certification programs
- Platform certifications
- Game engine certifications
- Embedded systems credentials
- Security certifications
- Cloud platform certs
- Architecture certifications
- Project management
- Teaching qualifications
- Industry-specific training
🚀 Projects
- Certification preparation
- Study plan creation
- Practice examinations
- Certification project
- Professional development plan
💪 Practice
Pursue relevant certifications
📚 Topics Covered
- Product ideation
- Market research
- MVP development
- Performance requirements
- Scalability planning
- Security considerations
- Monetization strategies
- Distribution methods
- License models
- Support strategies
🚀 Projects
- Product prototype
- Business plan
- MVP release
- User feedback integration
- Product iteration
💪 Practice
Develop and launch C++ product
📚 Topics Covered
- Technical leadership
- Architecture decisions
- Team mentoring
- Code quality standards
- Best practices enforcement
- Performance culture
- Innovation fostering
- Knowledge transfer
- Process improvement
- Tool selection
🚀 Projects
- Leadership portfolio
- Mentorship program
- Team guidelines
- Architecture decisions record
- Innovation proposals
💪 Practice
Exercise leadership in C++ community
Projects You'll Build
Build a professional portfolio with 80+ C++ projects across all domains real-world projects.
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Comprehensive coverage of the entire modern web development stack.
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Transform your career with industry-ready skills and job placement support.