Advanced C++ and Object-Oriented Programming

An intensive, five-day, lecture-and-laboratory C++ and object-oriented programming course for practicing C++ programmers. This course builds on the concepts introduced in the course "C++ and Object-Oriented Programming (for C Programmers)." Advanced topics are covered in more detail with an emphasis on design and implementation issues of programming in C++. The course clearly explains advanced features of the C++ programming language and contains many detailed walkthroughs of C++ programs. Solutions are provided for all laboratory exercises. 60% lecture and 40% laboratory exercises.

Prerequisites

• General familiarity with your operating system environment
• Ability to create and edit text files
• Program in C++ at the level of "C++ and Object-Oriented Programming (for C Programmers)"

Course Objectives

• Understand the concepts of object-oriented programming
• Understand the concepts of object-oriented analysis and design
• Understand the elements of a successful design
• Understand how to organize classes in an object-oriented system using single inheritance, multiple inheritance, layering, pointers, references, employment, and progenitors
• Understand class implementation issues
• Understand exception handling
• Protect objects with constructors, destructors, preconditions, postconditions, and invariants
• Use pointers with objects
• Create composite classes via composition, inheritance, employment, and knowledge
• Create template container classes
• Understand inheritance with class templates
• Understand the use of polymorphism and virtual functions
• Understand and create cooperative classes
• Understand reference counting
• Understand the mechanics and use of operator overloading
• Handle memory allocation faults for new and delete
• Overload the new and delete operators for all types
• Overload the new and delete operators for specific classes
• Overload the arrow (->) operator to create smart pointers
• Understand implicit conversions
• Create user-defined cast operators and conversion functions
• Initialize arrays of objects