What You’ll Learn

Modern C++11 features — lambdas, auto, move semantics Templates & STL — vectors, maps, sets, iterators Operator overloading — build expressive classes Polymorphism — virtual functions & abstract classes Binary files — write images & structured data Fractal project — build a full Mandelbrot renderer

Who This Course Is For

Intermediate C++ developers who want to level up Programmers moving to modern C++11 from C, Java, or Python Students preparing for technical interviews Developers who know the basics and want to understand how C++ really works Anyone who wants real projects instead of toy examples

Curriculum

10 Chapters · 95 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction

    1. Welcome Free preview
    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Source Code

  2. 2

    Exceptions

    1. Exceptions Basics Free preview
    2. Standard Exceptions Free preview
    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Custom Exceptions

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Exception Catching Order

  3. 3

    Files

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Writing Text Files

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Reading Text Files

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Parsing Text Files

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Structs and Padding

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Reading and Writing Binary Files

  4. 4

    The Standard Template Library

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Vectors

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Vectors and Memory

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Two Dimensional Vectors

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Lists

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Maps

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      Custom Objects as Map Values

    7. (Included in full purchase)

      Custom Objects as Map Keys

    8. (Included in full purchase)

      Multimaps

    9. (Included in full purchase)

      Sets

    10. (Included in full purchase)

      Stacks and Queues

    11. (Included in full purchase)

      Sorting Vectors_ Deque and Friend

    12. (Included in full purchase)

      STL Complex Data Types

  5. 5

    Operator Overloading

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Overloading the Assignment Operator

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Printing - Overloading Left Bit Shift

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      A Complex Number Class

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Overloading Plus

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Overloading Equality Tests

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      Overloading the Dereference Operator

  6. 6

    Template Classes and Functions

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Templates - An Important Note

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Template Classes

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Template Functions

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Template Functions and Type Inference

  7. 7

    Passing Functions to Functions

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Function Pointers

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Using Function Pointers

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Object Slicing and Polymorphism

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Abstract Classes and Pure Virtual Functions

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Functors

  8. 8

    C++ 11's Amazing New Features

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Decltype_ Typeid and Name Mangling

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      The auto Keyword

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Range-Based for Loops

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Nested Template Classes

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      A Ring Buffer Class

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      Making Classes Iterable

    7. (Included in full purchase)

      C__ Initialization in C__ 98

    8. (Included in full purchase)

      Initialization in C__ 11

    9. (Included in full purchase)

      Initializer Lists

    10. (Included in full purchase)

      Object Initialization_ Default and Delete

    11. (Included in full purchase)

      Introducing Lambda Expressions

    12. (Included in full purchase)

      Lambda Parameters and Return Types

    13. (Included in full purchase)

      Lambda Capture Expressions

    14. (Included in full purchase)

      Capturing this With Lambdas

    15. (Included in full purchase)

      The Standard Function Type

    16. (Included in full purchase)

      Mutable Lambdas

    17. (Included in full purchase)

      Delegating Constructors

    18. (Included in full purchase)

      Elision and Optimization

    19. (Included in full purchase)

      Constructors and Memory

    20. (Included in full purchase)

      Rvalues and LValues

    21. (Included in full purchase)

      LValue References

    22. (Included in full purchase)

      Rvalue References

    23. (Included in full purchase)

      Move Constructors

    24. (Included in full purchase)

      Move Assignment Operators

    25. (Included in full purchase)

      Static Casts

    26. (Included in full purchase)

      Dynamic Cast

    27. (Included in full purchase)

      Reinterpret Cast

    28. (Included in full purchase)

      Perfect Forwarding

    29. (Included in full purchase)

      Bind

    30. (Included in full purchase)

      Unique Pointers

    31. (Included in full purchase)

      Shared Pointers

    32. (Included in full purchase)

      GUI Programming Overview

  9. 9

    A Project — Drawing Fractal Images

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Fractal Creator - Hello World

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Bitmap File Headers

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Bitmap Info Headers

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      A Bitmap Class

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Bitmap Memory

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      Bitmap Header Values

    7. (Included in full purchase)

      Writing a Bitmap

    8. (Included in full purchase)

      Setting Bitmap Pixels

    9. (Included in full purchase)

      Scaling

    10. (Included in full purchase)

      A Mandelbrot Class

    11. (Included in full purchase)

      The Fractal Algorithm

    12. (Included in full purchase)

      Improving the Image

    13. (Included in full purchase)

      The Colour Histogram

    14. (Included in full purchase)

      Validating the Histogram

    15. (Included in full purchase)

      Eliminating Max Iterations

    16. (Included in full purchase)

      Storing the Iterations

    17. (Included in full purchase)

      Using the Histogram

    18. (Included in full purchase)

      Colour Transforms

    19. (Included in full purchase)

      A Zoom Class

    20. (Included in full purchase)

      The Zoom List Class

    21. (Included in full purchase)

      Centering and Scaling

    22. (Included in full purchase)

      Applying the Zoom

    23. (Included in full purchase)

      Zooming In

    24. (Included in full purchase)

      Reorganising Main

  10. 10

    Bonus — Multiple Inheritance

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Multiple Inheritance

Meet Your Instructor, John Purcell

I’ve taught many thousands of students through programming courses and YouTube tutorials. My focus is always the same: clear explanations, practical examples, and a structured path that makes learning feel natural.

Course Curriculum

10 Chapters · 95 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction

    1. Welcome Free preview
    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Source Code

  2. 2

    Exceptions

    1. Exceptions Basics Free preview
    2. Standard Exceptions Free preview
    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Custom Exceptions

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Exception Catching Order

  3. 3

    Files

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Writing Text Files

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Reading Text Files

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Parsing Text Files

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Structs and Padding

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Reading and Writing Binary Files

  4. 4

    The Standard Template Library

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Vectors

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Vectors and Memory

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Two Dimensional Vectors

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Lists

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Maps

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      Custom Objects as Map Values

    7. (Included in full purchase)

      Custom Objects as Map Keys

    8. (Included in full purchase)

      Multimaps

    9. (Included in full purchase)

      Sets

    10. (Included in full purchase)

      Stacks and Queues

    11. (Included in full purchase)

      Sorting Vectors_ Deque and Friend

    12. (Included in full purchase)

      STL Complex Data Types

  5. 5

    Operator Overloading

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Overloading the Assignment Operator

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Printing - Overloading Left Bit Shift

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      A Complex Number Class

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Overloading Plus

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Overloading Equality Tests

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      Overloading the Dereference Operator

  6. 6

    Template Classes and Functions

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Templates - An Important Note

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Template Classes

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Template Functions

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Template Functions and Type Inference

  7. 7

    Passing Functions to Functions

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Function Pointers

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Using Function Pointers

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Object Slicing and Polymorphism

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Abstract Classes and Pure Virtual Functions

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Functors

  8. 8

    C++ 11's Amazing New Features

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Decltype_ Typeid and Name Mangling

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      The auto Keyword

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Range-Based for Loops

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Nested Template Classes

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      A Ring Buffer Class

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      Making Classes Iterable

    7. (Included in full purchase)

      C__ Initialization in C__ 98

    8. (Included in full purchase)

      Initialization in C__ 11

    9. (Included in full purchase)

      Initializer Lists

    10. (Included in full purchase)

      Object Initialization_ Default and Delete

    11. (Included in full purchase)

      Introducing Lambda Expressions

    12. (Included in full purchase)

      Lambda Parameters and Return Types

    13. (Included in full purchase)

      Lambda Capture Expressions

    14. (Included in full purchase)

      Capturing this With Lambdas

    15. (Included in full purchase)

      The Standard Function Type

    16. (Included in full purchase)

      Mutable Lambdas

    17. (Included in full purchase)

      Delegating Constructors

    18. (Included in full purchase)

      Elision and Optimization

    19. (Included in full purchase)

      Constructors and Memory

    20. (Included in full purchase)

      Rvalues and LValues

    21. (Included in full purchase)

      LValue References

    22. (Included in full purchase)

      Rvalue References

    23. (Included in full purchase)

      Move Constructors

    24. (Included in full purchase)

      Move Assignment Operators

    25. (Included in full purchase)

      Static Casts

    26. (Included in full purchase)

      Dynamic Cast

    27. (Included in full purchase)

      Reinterpret Cast

    28. (Included in full purchase)

      Perfect Forwarding

    29. (Included in full purchase)

      Bind

    30. (Included in full purchase)

      Unique Pointers

    31. (Included in full purchase)

      Shared Pointers

    32. (Included in full purchase)

      GUI Programming Overview

  9. 9

    A Project — Drawing Fractal Images

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Fractal Creator - Hello World

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Bitmap File Headers

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Bitmap Info Headers

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      A Bitmap Class

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Bitmap Memory

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      Bitmap Header Values

    7. (Included in full purchase)

      Writing a Bitmap

    8. (Included in full purchase)

      Setting Bitmap Pixels

    9. (Included in full purchase)

      Scaling

    10. (Included in full purchase)

      A Mandelbrot Class

    11. (Included in full purchase)

      The Fractal Algorithm

    12. (Included in full purchase)

      Improving the Image

    13. (Included in full purchase)

      The Colour Histogram

    14. (Included in full purchase)

      Validating the Histogram

    15. (Included in full purchase)

      Eliminating Max Iterations

    16. (Included in full purchase)

      Storing the Iterations

    17. (Included in full purchase)

      Using the Histogram

    18. (Included in full purchase)

      Colour Transforms

    19. (Included in full purchase)

      A Zoom Class

    20. (Included in full purchase)

      The Zoom List Class

    21. (Included in full purchase)

      Centering and Scaling

    22. (Included in full purchase)

      Applying the Zoom

    23. (Included in full purchase)

      Zooming In

    24. (Included in full purchase)

      Reorganising Main

  10. 10

    Bonus — Multiple Inheritance

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Multiple Inheritance

Why This Course

Clear explanations that make advanced topics intuitive Project‑driven learning with a full fractal renderer Modern C++11 techniques used in real software today Practical examples instead of academic theory A structured path from intermediate to advanced

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