C++ and Object-Oriented Programming (for C Programmers)

An intensive, five-day, lecture-and-laboratory C++ and object-oriented programming course for practicing C programmers. C++ is a variant of the ANSI C programming language. C++ offers three major items beyond ANSI C, and each is discussed in reasonable technical detail in this course-enhancements to ANSI C that improve the process of writing programs, features for data abstraction and encapsulation that enable programmers to create new data types, and capabilities for object-oriented programming. The course clearly explains the C++ programming language and contains detailed walkthroughs of many C++ programs. Students become proficient in C++, understand the object-oriented paradigm, and participate in a challenging laboratory assignment in which they complete a group project involving both object-oriented design and object-oriented programming in C++. Solutions are provided for the 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 ANSI C or C++ at the level of "Introduction to ANSI C and C++
• Programming: Part 2 (for Non-C Programmers)"

Course Objectives

• Understand the concepts of object-oriented programming
• Understand encapsulation
• Understand extensibility
• Understand software reusability
• Understand how to use class libraries
• Perform C++-style input/output
• Use C++ as "a better C"
• Write inline functions
• Use reference parameters
• Perform dynamic memory allocation with new and delete
• Use default function arguments
• Build abstract data types using classes
• Understand and use constructor and destructor functions to initialize and destroy
• class objects
• Use the const qualifier to create constant objects and constant member functions
• Create static data members and static member functions
• Use friend functions and friend classes
• Overload functions
• Create function templates
• Overload operators to work with user-defined classes
• Create container classes
• Create class templates
• Use inheritance to build class hierarchies
• Perform inheritance with class templates
• Understand and use polymorphism and virtual functions
• Understand exception handling
• Understand multiple inheritance
• Understand elementary object-oriented analysis and design
• Compare and contrast composition and private inheritance