Advanced C++ part 1

This article series will be talking about advanced C++ concepts.

Prerequisites:
Solid understanding of programming. A sense of OOP. Understanding pointers. A slight idea about threads and concurrency. Imagination and enthusiasm.

Assumption:
I assume you can compile and run any C++ program and know how to handle any syntax error you get.

It will contains this topics:

1. Necessary introduction about the compilation process.
2. ‘new’ buffer allocation.
3. Thread-safety using ‘volatile’.
4. Exceptions.
5. Namepsaces and anonymous namespaces.
6. General usages of the ‘using’ keyword.
7. const pointers and const references.
8. Real time type-id.
9. Templates.
10. Introduction to STL.
11. Template meta-programming.
12. General topics like executable file encryption.

Stuff I will NOT talk about :

1. No function pointers.
2. Nothing related to common OOP (i.e. no inheritance, no operator overloading, no friend classes, no virtual functions/overriding).
3. Nothing about visual programming.
4. Nothing about managed C++.
5. Nothing about programming style guidelines.

There is other topics I want to talk about, like signals ( <csignal> header file ) but probably I won’t.
I will start publishing them as soon as I can, but I don’t think I can do it before the exams.
As I publish each part, I will associate links and book titles for further reading.