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C++ Full Course for Beginners (2 Hours) — Zero to a Real Program – Source Code

A from-zero C++ course built around one program: a small grade book that stores students and scores and prints averages. It moves from compiling Hello World through types, control flow, functions, containers and classes, with real compiler errors fixed on screen. It ends with an expert map covering headers, RAII, the Rule of Zero and undefined behaviour.

Duration
about 1 h 33 min
Tools
g++ (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, -std=c++17 -Wall, VS Code on Linux; any C++17 compiler (GCC, Clang, MSVC)

Watch the course

Chapters

  1. 00:00Promise: the grade book you'll build
  2. 03:31Install check & Hello World
  3. 11:27Variables, types, cin, cout
  4. 20:36if/else, loops & fixing a real compiler error
  5. 30:29Functions: pass by value vs reference
  6. 39:04Arrays, std::string, range-for
  7. 46:41Pointers: one example
  8. 50:51struct, class, constructor, private
  9. 1:00:12std::vector and std::map
  10. 1:07:14new/delete once, then vector
  11. 1:11:19Build the grade book
  12. 1:20:28Expert map: headers, RAII, Rule of Zero, UB, next steps
Download source code

File: cpp-beginner-course-code.zip

Size: 8.8 KB (9,028 bytes)

SHA-256:
f5bba471f8b0218f2ad78b081c104b7aa84f5897549243202c0e60e9c72ce811

Licence: code is released under the MIT licence, copyright PyInns. See LICENSE and README inside the zip. Free learning code, not production code.

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