NPRG051 - Advanced Programming in C++

Course format

In English, there is only one event in the weekly timetable, categorized as "tutorials" for technical reasons.

For enrollment, select the Czech lecture + the English tutorials; however, you are not supposed to visit the Friday lectures.

Each week, the English event will be used as a lecture, a consultation, or dedicated to the homework assignments, according to the schedule below.

The yellow parts are well supported by external resources and left to self-study, followed by consultations.

Grading & Exam

• at least 50% points from each homework => no oral exam required
  • if you are happy with this result, you may skip the oral part
• at least 15 points from all homeworks in total and at least 1 point from each homework => oral exam allowed
• oral exam ⇉ +/- 10 pts
  • beware: it may improve or worsen your result
• 27..30 pts ⇉ 1, 23..26 pts ⇉ 2, 19..22 pts ⇉ 3

All the homework assignments must be written solely by the student who submits them, independently and without the use of AI tools.

You may discuss the design and associated problems with your peers; however, the code must be written only by you and you shall not share the code with anyone.

Timetable, slides, and online materials

Thu 15:40		Lectures / Tutorials / Topics / Consultations		Slides		External / additional resources
Feb 20		Introduction				Learning C++
		Concepts	requirements, concepts
Feb 27		Templates	lvalue/rvalue, perfect forwarding			variadic templates universal references, forwarding
Mar 6		Templates	working with references and values
		Templates	standard library traits and tags
Mar 13		Assignment #1
Self-study		Metaprogramming in C++	iteration through variadic lists
			metaprogramming
		Type deduction	auto, structure bindings, deduction rules			structured bindings   type deduction   C++20
		Type deduction	deduction rules, CTAD, uniform initialization			CTAD   initialization
		Type system	type compatibility, type erasure, any, variant, visit, overload			type erasure   overload   variant
		Libraries	ranges, span, ud literals, ..., C++23 & beyond			ranges   chrono
		Parallel programming				C++11 concurrency parallel algorithms, tasks, concurrency, parallel algorithms again C++11 parallelism, C++11 concurrency again
		Parallel programming				some scary reading: BAD, UGLY, and GOOD
		Parallel programming
		Networking, databases, AIO Coroutines				Exploring C++20 Coroutines, Coroutines introduction, C++20 coroutines tutorial
Mar 20		Consultations (S203)
Mar 27		Consultations (S203)
Apr 3		Consultations (S203)
Apr 10		Feedback #1 + Assignment #2
Apr 17		Consultations (S203)
Apr 24		Consultations (S203)
May 1		Holiday
May 8		Holiday
May 15		Feedback #2 + Assignment #3
May 22		Consultations (S203)
Additional slides
		Exceptions
		Extended versions of winter-term lectures (NPRG041)	declarations-definitions
			templates
		Deeper examples related to summer-term lectures	tuple
		Very advanced topics	mixin
		Metaprogramming in C++	sfinae
		Modules				modules