You're reading from The C++ Programmer's Mindset Learn computational, algorithmic, and systems thinking to become a better C++ programmer

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835888421

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Sam Morley

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Thinking Computationally FREE CHAPTER

2. Abstraction in Detail

3. Algorithmic Thinking and Complexity

4. Understanding the Machine

5. Data Structures

6. Reusing Your Code and Modularity

7. Outlining the Challenge

8. Building a Simple Command-Line Interface

9. Reading Data from Different Formats

10. Finding Information in Text

11. Clustering Data

12. Reflecting on What We Have Built

13. The Problems of Scale

14. Dealing with GPUs and Specialized Hardware

15. Profiling Your Code

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18. Index

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we use some of the binaries built in the Chapter-04 folder of the GitHub repository. We will make extensive use of the Google benchmark library here and the perf tool that is available in any Linux distribution; you will need to check your distribution’s documentation for instructions on how to install this tool if it is not already installed. Users on Windows or macOS will need to check with their operating system vendor for instructions on how to use their profilers, or use a Linux virtual machine.

The code for this chapter can be found in the Chapter-15 folder in the GitHub repository for this book at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-CPP-Programmers-Mindset.

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Authors (1)

Sam Morley

Sam Morley is a research software engineer and mathematician at the University of Oxford, working on the DataSig programme. He's the lead maintainer of the RoughPy library, a performant C++ and Python library for computation rough paths and data science. Sam is a former mathematics lecturer and brings both academic precision and real-world engineering experience to every challenge—especially those involving abstraction, data, and algorithms. He's also the author of Applying Math with Python. Sam greatly enjoys solving puzzles, which is why he finds mathematics and programming so interesting

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