A seminar for software engineers who need to master the complexity of C++. The seminar provides insights into frequently neglected language details, thereby creating an awareness of traps and pitfalls in the language, and explains strategies for achieving a higher degree of reliability and robustness of C++ programs.

This seminar covers the most important material that every professional C++ developer needs to know to be truly effective with the language and is especially suited to engineers who develop safety-critical components and need to produce reliable software that must meet the highest quality requirements. The focus is on the core of the language and neither requires nor strives for comprehensive knowledge of all language features.  Less commonly used features such as templates, the standard library, and recent language additions such as C++-20 features are mentioned, where relevant.  Topics include correct allocation and deallocation of memory, elimination of invalid pointers and memory leaks, efficient and correct initialzation, copying and moving of objects, preservation of object validity, properly expressing ownership concepts, const correctness, name lookup and overload resolution of redefined functions, implict type conversions, operator overloading, expression evaluation and sequence points.

The course is designed and conducted by Angelika Langer and backed by years of experience in teaching  C++ related topics and more than a decade of real-world experience in industrial software development. Angelika Langer is a freelance trainer/consultant in the area of object-oriented software development in C++ and Java. She is member of the ANSI C++ standards committee since 1993, a former columnist of C++ Report, and a recognized speaker at OO conferences worldwide.