In this course, learners will build a thorough and progressive foundation in C++ programming  from writing their first program and working with variables and data types through to advanced language features including templates, smart pointers, and functional programming. Learners will apply control structures, loops, and functions to write structured programs, and develop strong object-oriented programming skills through classes, constructors, destructors, static members, and copy constructors. They will implement inheritance and polymorphism including abstract classes, virtual functions, and multiple inheritance, and manage memory effectively using pointers, references, and smart pointers alongside exception handling. Learners will also master operator overloading, function and class templates, and move semantics, before working with sequence and associative containers, file handling, and first-class functions including lambdas and closures.