Beautiful C++: Updating Legacy Code
By Kate Gregory
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Description
C++ has been a popular programming language for decades, which means there’s some really old code out there. Some of it is very hard to read and maintain. Capabilities have been added to the language and standard library that could simplify this code, and possibly make it faster or eliminate nagging intermittent bugs. In this course, Beautiful C++: Updating Legacy Code, you’ll learn how to approach a large and unfamiliar codebase and make changes to modernize code. First, you'll learn some strategies for deciding exactly what to change. Then, you'll be introduced to language features and library capabilities that may not have existed when your code was first written, and can make it better now. Finally, you'll discover how to evaluate your progress and spread your gains through the rest of the code. By the end of this course, you'll be prepared for your code to last another generation or two and take full advantage of what modern C++ has to offer.
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Course Overview
Hi everyone! My name is Kate Gregory. Welcome to my course, Beautiful C++: Updating Legacy Code. I'm a consultant and mentor at Gregory Consulting. I've been using C++ for over 30 years. And these days, I spend a lot of time updating old code. This course will give you the tools and strategies you need to update legacy code of your own so it can be beautiful too, readable, understandable, expressive, reassuring, and probably a little bit faster and with a few less bugs. Some of the major topics in this course include choosing what parts to update, C++ features you should be using but probably aren't, how the standard library can help you, and how to know when to stop updating. By the end of this course, you'll know what makes modern C++ better than what we used to write and how to change the code you have into something more understandable and maintainable. Before beginning this course, you should be familiar with C++ in general. I'm not going to repeat a lot of syntax or concepts from my other courses like C++ Fundamentals Including C++ 17 or Beautiful C++: Algorithms. I also expect you to know how to add tests to your code base, and I won't be covering that. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn how to make your old code beautiful and maintainable with the Beautiful C++: Updating Legacy Code course, at Pluralsight.