Creating Portable, Reusable Programs with Tools.h++ (3 day)

General Description

Rogue Wave's Tools.h++ has become a defacto standard for C++ foundation classes. This three day course provides the basic knowledge of Tools.h++ classes needed to create highly efficient and portable programs. Attendees should be C++ programmers with a minimum of 6 months experience.

Course Outline

Introduction

How objects help the creation of portable, reusable code

Characteristics of Rogue Wave classes

Internationalization: an introduction

Basic classes

1. Strings
   • The basic string class: RWCString
   • Sub-strings: RWCSubString
   • Regular expressions: RWCRegexp
   • Lab 1 - A Text Pattern Class
2. Date/Time
   • RWDate
   • Lab 2 - A Calendar Program
3. RWTime
   • Lab 3 - A Date/Time Pattern Class
4. I/O - virtual streams
   • The abstract base class: RWvios
   • Abstract I/O classes: Rwvistream and RWvostream
   • The common functional interface
   • The concrete classes (specialized implementations)
     • Portable ASCII streams: Rwpistream and RWpostream
     • Binary streams: Rwbistream and RWbostream
5. Files
   • RWFile
   • Lab 4 - RWFile and Virtual Streams
   • RWFileManager

Collections

1. Basic concepts
2. Object Equality vs. Object Identity
3. How collections are accessed
4. Are Duplicates allowed?
5. Is order significant?
6. How is the collection implemented?
   • Templates
   • Persistable (Smalltalk - like)
7. Designing an RWCollectable class
8. What data structure is used?
   • Vectors
   • Ordered Vectors
   • Sorted Vectors
   • Singly Linked Lists
   • Doubly Linked Lists
   • Hash Table
   • Set
   • Identity Set
     • Lab 5 - Using Collections: Sets
   • Bag
   • Binary Tree
   • BTree
   • Hash Dictionary
   • Identify Dictionary
   • BTree Dictionary
     • Lab 6 - Using Collections: Dictionaries
   • Stack
   • Queue
   • Virtual Array