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.

Title

Fundamentals for C++ Professionals (Become a C++ Professional in Nine Months)

Stations

Here are all 28 stations. Therefore, you know what you get:

Introduction
Literals
Types: enumerations, pointer, references, and casts
Types: type deduction with auto and decltype
Values: initialization, conversion, const, and constexpr
Values: move semantics and perfect forwarding
Memory
Functions
Classes: attributes and constructors
Classes: initialization, destructors, and member functions
Classes: default, and delete, operator overloading, explicit, access rights, friends, and structs
Inheritance: abstract base classes, access rights, constructors, base class initializers
Inheritance: destructor, virtuality, override, and final, 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

I publish on each Friday a new station (content). But I have more valuable content for you if you like.

One station contains theory, practice, and mentoring.

Theory
- Pure theory with approx. ten slides (video)
- Applied theory with approx. five examples (video)
Practice
- Explain the exercises (video)
- Explain the sample solutions to the exercises (video)
Mentoring
- Live Q&A session on each Friday of each week, in which I address questions about the week’s topic; I record this session.
- E-mail queries by participants; I publish the e-mail responses anonymously if appropriate or address them in the Q&A sessions.

There is more one-to-one mentoring.

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

Additional 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?

For Whom is This Mentoring Program?

First of all, you need a basic knowledge of C++, and you want to become a professional C++ developer in nine months. You have to invest about 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 members on the same page

If you don’t know if my program is appropriate for you, write me an e-mail: info@ModernesCpp.de.

Here are a few technical details

Technical Details

Course start: My goal is to launch this course in April.
Course size: At least 105 hours, 17.5 training days, or 3 1/2 typical 3-days training.
Registration: I open the registration window four weeks before the course starts and close it one week before it starts.
Stay informed: If you want to stay informed, write an e-mail to info@ModernesCpp.de with the subject “Mentoring”. Write me also an e-mail if you need more information.
Price: Due to this first installment of my mentoring program(and some improvisation), the price of the program is drastically reduced by roughly 50%: about €250.
- For final consumers, I have to add 19% VAT
- For business consumers in Germany, I have to add 19% VAT

In the end, I want to write about my long-term vision.

My Vision

Build 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++
- Embedded Programming with C++
- Generic Programming (Templates) with C++