My Mentoring Program “Fundamentals for C++ Professionals”
I’m happy to provide you with more details about my mentoring program, “Fundamentals for C++ Professionals”.
My general idea of the mentoring program is straightforward. I will teach you what you should know about modern C++. Modern C++ includes the core language and the library based on C++17 in 28 stations.
Each week, I publish a new station. To master a station, you have to invest about three hours. Therefore, you can integrate my program into your workday.
After my general idea, I want to give you more details about my mentoring.
The Mentoring Program
28 Levels
Each station consists of theory, practice, and mentoring:
- Introduction
- Literals
- Types: enumerations, pointer, references, and casts
- Types: type deduction with
autoanddecltype - Values: initialization, conversion,
const, andconstexpr - Values: move semantics and perfect forwarding
- Memory
- Functions
- Classes: attributes and constructors
- Classes: initialization, destructors, and member functions
- Classes:
default, anddelete, operator overloading, explicit, access rights, friends, and structs - Inheritance: abstract base classes, access rights, constructors, base class initializers
- Inheritance: destructor, virtuality,
override, andfinal, and multiple inheritances - Templates: functions and classes
- Templates: parameters and arguments
- Template Specialization
- Type Traits
- Smart Pointers
- STL: General Ideas (containers, algorithms, iterators, callables, range-based)
- STL: Common Interface of the Containers
- STL: sequential containers and associative containers
- STL: algorithms
- Strings including string views
- Regular Expressions
- In- and Output
- Threads: creation, data sharing, mutexes, and locks
- Threads: thread-local data, thread-safe initialization, condition variables
- Tasks
One Station
Each station consists of theory, practice, and mentoring:
Theory
- Pure theory: 10 slides (video)
- Applied theory: 5 examples (video)
- Additional: Posts and Training videos
Practice
- Practical excercises (videos)
- Sample solutions to the exercises (video)
- Active C++ community in moderated forums
Mentoring
- Each week: Live Q&A session based on Forum questions
- One-to-One mentoring at the end of the mentoring program if requested
Program Features
One-To-One Mentoring
During the program and at the end, I will have a one-to-one mentoring call with each participant. Each one-to-one mentoring call has a unique purpose.
- During the mentoring program: You decide when it should happen. The purpose of this one-to-one call is simple. I want to support you in mastering my mentoring program.
- In the end: I want to provide you with additional guidance for your career as a C++ programmer because you are never done learning.
Additionally, I develop an online library that provides the following content to support your learning.
Online Library
- Videos of very valuable lectures
- A coupon for my educative courses “C++ Fundamentals for Professionals“
- A coupon for my book “The C++ Standard Library“
- Articles to the each station
- Recorded Q&A sessions
- Respond to e-mails if they are relevant to the course
Aditional Stations
You have noticed that I wrote about 28 stations, but the program takes nine months (35 stations). After big topics, I do not publish new content but deepen the previous topic. This unique week serves as a buffer to allow participants to work through gaps.
The buffer is necessary for several reasons:
- Short-term bottlenecks in your job or private (vacation or illness).
- Short-term bottlenecks in the mentoring program (many exciting questions have accumulated)
- Deepening of the contents
This week there will be a general Q&A session on Friday, where I will address questions and challenges around my mentoring.
Now, you may ask yourself, should I apply?
The ideal Mentee
First, you need a basic knowledge of C++, and you want to become a professional C++ developer in eight months. You have to invest at-least three hours a week and can, therefore, integrate my program into your workday. In the ideal case, your company supports you with time and money.
Here are a few typical participant profiles I have in mind:
- Young professionals who want to master the start of their career
- Students who wish to prepare for their first job (interview)
- Software developers who want to qualify themselves further professionally
- Team leaders that want to bring their team members on the same page
Mentee Membership and Community Membership
When you mastered your mentoring program, you can extend your Mentee Membership with a Community Membership.
Mentee Membership
- Member of a mentoring program
- Includes acommunity membership
Community Membership
- Access to the previous mentoring program
- You cannot participate in the Q&A sessions, but you can watch recorded Q&A sessions
- Becomes a community member if requested
- Community membership is €30/month; payable for a year in advance: €360
My Vision
Build an active C++ community. You help each other to solve your exercises and challenges around modern C++. uild an active C++ community. You help each other to solve your exercises and challenges around modern C++. You can master this course at your pace. I will develop additional mentoring programs about the following more advanced topics. I will start these other mentoring programs at the end of this year.
- C++ 20
- Clean Code with Modern C++
- Concurrency with Modern C++
- Design Pattern and Architectural Pattern with C++
- Design Pattern and Architectural Pattern with C++
More Information needed?
If you need more information, write an e-mail. I´m happy to help.