The C++ Standard Template Library (STL) is a general-purpose library of generic algorithms and data structures. This course is an intermediate-to-advanced level, hands-on programming course that thoroughly explores all of the STL components. Its purpose is to make a programming task much easier by providing extensive components that can be combined in an application. It also provides a framework into which different programming problems can be dissected.

1. Brief: Overview of C++

• Overview of STL Components
• Containers
• Generic Algorithms
• Iterators
• Function Objects

2. Iterators

• Input Iterators
• Output Iterators
• Forward Iterators
• Bi-directional Iterators
• Random Access Iterators
• Constant Versus Mutable Iterator Types
• Iterator Categories Provided by STL Containers

3. Generic Algorithms

• Sorting-Related Algorithms

4. Sequence Containers

• Vectors
• Deques
• Lists

5. Function Objects

• What are Function Objects?
• How Function Objects Differ from Function Pointers
• STL-Provided Function Objects