Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt, 2nd Edition

Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt, 2nd Edition

by Alan Ezust, Paul Ezust
Released September 2011
Publisher(s): Pearson
ISBN: 9780132851619

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Book description

Master C++ “The Qt Way” with Modern Design Patterns and Efficient Reuse

This fully updated, classroom-tested book teaches C++ “The Qt Way,” emphasizing design patterns and efficient reuse. Readers will master both the C++ language and Qt libraries, as they learn to develop maintainable software with well-defined code layers and simple, reusable classes and functions.

Every chapter of this edition has been improved with new content, better organization, or both. Readers will find extensively revised coverage of QObjects, Reflection, Widgets, Main Windows, Models and Views, Databases, Multi-Threaded Programming, and Reflection. This edition introduces the powerful new Qt Creator IDE; presents new multimedia APIs; and offers extended coverage of Qt Designer and C++ Integration. It has been restructured to help readers start writing software immediately and write robust, effective software sooner.

The authors introduce several new design patterns, add many quiz questions and labs, and present more efficient solutions relying on new Qt features and best practices. They also provide an up-to-date C++ reference section and a complete application case study.

  • Master C++ keywords, literals, identifiers, declarations, types, and type conversions.

  • Understand classes and objects, organize them, and describe their interrelationships.

  • Learn consistent programming style and naming rules.

  • Use lists, functions, and other essential techniques.

  • Define inheritance relationships to share code and promote reuse.

  • Learn how code libraries are designed, built, and reused.

  • Work with QObject, the base class underlying much of Qt.

  • Build graphical user interfaces with Qt widgets.

  • Use templates to write generic functions and classes.

  • Master advanced reflective programming techniques.

  • Use the Model-View framework to cleanly separate data and GUI classes.

  • Validate input using regular expressions and other techniques.

  • Parse XML data with SAX, DOM, and QXmlStreamReader.

  • Master today’s most valuable creational and structural design patterns.

  • Create, use, monitor, and debug processes and threads.

  • Access databases with Qt’s SQL classes.

  • Manage memory reliably and efficiently.

  • Understand how to effectively manage QThreads and use QtConcurrent algorithms.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. About the Authors
  9. Part I: Design Patterns and Qt
    1. Chapter 1: C++ Introduction
    2. Chapter 2: Top of the class
    3. Chapter 3: Introduction to Qt
    4. Chapter 4: Lists
    5. Chapter 5: Functions
    6. Chapter 6: Inheritance and Polymorphism
    7. Chapter 7: Libraries and Design Patterns
    8. Chapter 8: QObject, QApplication, Signals, and Slots
    9. Chapter 9: Widgets and Designer
    10. Chapter 10: Main Windows and Actions
    11. Chapter 11: Generics and Containers
    12. Chapter 12: Meta Objects, Properties, and Reflective Programming
    13. Chapter 13: Models and Views
    14. Chapter 14: Validation and Regular Expressions
    15. Chapter 15: Parsing XML
    16. Chapter 16: More Design Patterns
    17. Chapter 17: Concurrency
    18. Chapter 18: Database Programming
  10. Part II: C++ Language Reference
    1. Chapter 19: Types and Expressions
    2. Chapter 20: Scope and Storage Class
    3. Chapter 21: Memory Access
    4. Chapter 22: Inheritance in Detail
  11. Part III: Programming Assignments
    1. Chapter 23: MP3 Jukebox Assignments
  12. Appendix A: C++ Reserved Keywords
  13. Appendix B: Standard Headers
  14. Appendix C: Development Tools
  15. Appendix D: Alan’s Quick Start Guide to Debian for Programmers
  16. Appendix E: C++/Qt Setup
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Footnotes
    1. Foreword
    2. Preface to the Second Edition
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. Chapter 1
    5. Chapter 2
    6. Chapter 3
    7. Chapter 4
    8. Chapter 5
    9. Chapter 6
    10. Chapter 7
    11. Chapter 8
    12. Chapter 9
    13. Chapter 10
    14. Chapter 11
    15. Chapter 12
    16. Chapter 14
    17. Chapter 15
    18. Chapter 16
    19. Chapter 17
    20. Chapter 18
    21. Chapter 19
    22. Chapter 20
    23. Chapter 21
    24. Chapter 22
    25. Chapter 23
    26. Appendix B
    27. Appendix C
    28. Appendix D
    29. Appendix E
    30. Bibliography

Product information

  • Title: Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt, 2nd Edition
  • Author(s): Alan Ezust, Paul Ezust
  • Release date: September 2011
  • Publisher(s): Pearson
  • ISBN: 9780132851619