Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. The course begins with setting up your development environment across different platforms, including Visual Studio, Code::Blocks, Cevelop, and XCode. You will then dive into the basic language facilities of C++, starting with variables, primitive types, functions, and debugging in Visual Studio. Later, you'll explore more advanced concepts such as dynamic memory allocation, object-oriented programming, classes, and constructors. As the course progresses, you will work with more complex features of C++ like move semantics, operator overloading, and memory management. You’ll gain practical experience in working with smart pointers (std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr, and std::weak_ptr), as well as learn how to handle type conversions and operator overloading in C++ to write more efficient and maintainable code. The course is designed for developers who want to deepen their knowledge of C++ and build powerful, efficient applications. It is ideal for students or professionals with basic programming knowledge looking to take their C++ skills to the next level. No prior experience in C++ is required, but understanding basic programming concepts will be helpful.
DH
If you are somewhat familiar with C++, this course will give you a fast introduction to modern features.
AM
Solid course. I learned a lot, however I do wish there were more interactive quizzes / small projects throughout
GM
Awesome content. I am loving with the detailing that you have covered in each module. I am writing this while I have only completed 18% of the course up to pointer.
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It's a great overview of the basics, I enjoyed it! There are no coding tasks, though, only quizzes. The value categories subject doesn't mention R-value subcategories. This is not something a begginer would want to know, but the course is not for complete beginners.
Awesome content. I am loving with the detailing that you have covered in each module. I am writing this while I have only completed 18% of the course up to pointer.
If you are somewhat familiar with C++, this course will give you a fast introduction to modern features.
Concise, compact course. Very well put together.
I learned C++ about 20 years and haven't used it since. However, I wanted to brush up so that I can use it again in the future. I found this course very useful to catch-up with the additional features from C++11 through 17. For this purpose I found the lectures perfect. The course could benefit from hands-on work. The coach sessions were fairly good (only one hiccup that I recall), and the multiple choice questions were fine, but this is a programming course that does not require students to program. Active learning could really drive the topics home. The course (or maybe the specialization) could really benefit from including features from after C++17. It's almost 10 years old now and I would not describe C++17 as "modern C++" anymore. I do not recommend this course to someone new to programming. I'd really recommend having experience in C++ already or at least experience in C.
The course material and pace is good but the interface to ask questions can be improved. For example, user interface can make it easy to ask for answers or additional questions by providing a button rather than a typed input.
Solid course. I learned a lot, however I do wish there were more interactive quizzes / small projects throughout