C++ Crash Course cuts through the weeds to get you straight to the core of C++17, the most modern revision of the ISO standard. In Part I, you'll learn about all of the essential core language features. Part II introduces you to the C++ Standard Library and Boost Libraries, where you'll learn about high-quality, fully-featured facilities immediately available to you. You'll learn all the major features of modern C++, including: - Fundamental types, reference types, and user-defined types - The object lifecycle including storage duration, memory management, exceptions, call stacks, and the RAII (resource acquisition is initialization) paradigm - Compile-time polymorphism with templates and run-time polymorphism with virtual classes - Advanced expressions, statements, and functions - Smart pointers, data structures, dates and times, numerics, and probability/statistics facilities - Containers, iterators, strings, and algorithms - Streams and files, concurrency, networking, and application development