C and C++ Roadmap for Freshers

Pointers, memory and object-oriented C++: the foundation for systems, embedded and competitive programming.

7 milestones · ~160 hours total

1. 1

   C basics

   ~25h

   Types, operators, control flow, functions, arrays and strings.

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2. 2

   Pointers and memory

   ~30h

   Pointers, arrays and pointer arithmetic, dynamic memory with malloc and free, structs.

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3. 3

   C++ fundamentals

   ~30h

   References, classes, constructors and destructors, inheritance and virtual functions.

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4. 4

   The STL

   ~25h

   vector, map, set, stack, queue and algorithms such as sort and binary search.

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5. 5

   Modern C++

   ~25h

   Smart pointers, RAII, move semantics, lambdas.

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6. 6

   Debugging and tools

   ~10h

   gdb or an IDE debugger, valgrind or sanitizers, reading compiler errors.

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7. 7

   Interview rounds

   ~15h

   Take the C & C++ rated tests and practise pointer and memory questions.

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