Lecture Material

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For the actual material covered, see below.

· A journey from POP to OOP using the C language

§ A sample procedural design (sample program)

§ Modular programming (sample program)

§ Abstract Data Types (sample program)

§ Enumerated types (sample program)

· Introducing "non Object Oriented" C++ features

§ Basic I/O

§ References

§ Constants

§ Dynamic Memory Management

§ Namespaces

§ Function overloading

§ Default Parameters

§ Inline (towards eliminating macros)

§ Bool and string

(sample program)

· Basic Object Oriented features of C++

§ Classes

§ Member Functions

§ Data Members and Encapsulation

§ Constructors

§ Destructor (sample program)

§ Static Members (sample program)

§ The String Class (sample program) (A comprehensive ppt)

· Constructors and Destructors

§ Constructor Initializer

§ Default Constructor

§ Conversion Constructor

§ Copy Constructor

§ Destructor

· More Object Oriented Features in C++

§ Friends

§ Operator Overloading (sample program)

§ Smart Pointers

§ Proxy Classes

§ More on stream IO

· Linked Lists

§ A linked list of integers (sample program)

§ A sorted linked list of integers (sample program)

· Inheritance

§ Basic concepts: Code reuse, base classes, super classes.

§ Data hiding: protected access mode.

§ Constructors and Destructors in inheritance.

§ Inheritance access mode (public/private – is a, is implemented by)

§ Containment vs. private inheritance.

· Polymorphism

§ Virtual functions

§ vtable and vptr

§ pure virtual functions

§ multiple inheritance

§ RTTI

§ Casting

§ The price of polymorphism

§ Comparison of the C++ approach to the Java approach

· Templates

§ Template functions

§ Template classes

§ A Binary Search Tree implementation

§ Template Class Specialization

§ Method Templates

§ Default Template Parameters

§ Non-type Template Parameters

§ A comprehensive STL tutorial

· Exceptions