C++ Object Oriented Programming

Course Length: 5 Days

Key Objectives

• Learn how to use the C++ programming language to develop applications.
• Gain a basic understanding of object oriented design and development concepts.
• Learn to apply concepts such as Classes, Inheritance, Constructors, Destructors and Templates.
• Learn common pitfall for C++ programmers and how to avoid them.
• Write C++ programs using object oriented programming techniques.

Course Overview

C++ is rapidly becoming the language of choice for object oriented programs and GUI. A superset of the C programming language, C++ provides additional features that support object oriented design and development. This course provides experienced C programmers with hands on C++ training and object oriented design and development concepts.

Audience

Applications programmers, software/database/graphic engineers. Anyone who would like to use C++ programming to develop applications.

Prerequisite

• Advanced C Programming

• UNIX Fundamentals

• vi or emacs

Course Content

Why C++?

Basic Concepts

Non-Object Oriented Extensions to C

• C++ Linkage to and from C Functions
• New operators: new, delete, I/O, Scope Resolution
• Default Arguments, Overloading, Variable Arguments
• Inline, Constants, References

Object Oriented Software Development

• Why Object Oriented Software Development?
• Object Oriented Analysis
• Object Oriented Design

Overview of Object Oriented Features

• Classes, Inheritance, Friends
• Constructors and Destructors
• Operator Overloading
• Virtual Functions
• Templates
• Exception Handling

The C++ Class

• Interfaces and Implementations
• Embedded Objects

Constructors and Destructors

• Constructor Initializers
• Object Arrays and Constructors

Friend Functions and Classes

Operator Overloading

• Unary and Binary Operator Overloading
• Overloading Pre- and Post- Increment
• Overloading Array Indexing
• Defining Conversions to Built-in Types

Inheritance

• Single and Multiple Inheritance
• Private Base Classes

Class Conversions Under Inheritance

Virtual Functions

• Abstract vs. Concrete Data Types
• Uses of Virtual Functions
• Typical Virtual Function Implementation
• Virtual Base Classes

I/O Stream Library

File and In-core I/O

Making Objects Act Like Built-in Values

• Class Types vs. Built-in Types
• Defining Destructor Functions
• Defining Assignment Operators
• Defining Copy Constructors
• Defining Virtual Destructors
• Pointers in Member Data

Using Libraries

• Container Classes