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C++ Programming Language

(1/29) Overview of the object oriented paradigm. Review of imperative language constructs and programming structures. Introduction to assignment operator; preprocessor directives; main(), comments, fundamental types, literals, constants, declarations, expressions. Introduction to output and the insertion operator << and cout. Introduction to input and the extraction operator >> and cin. Construction of first C++ program. if-else statement, switch and break statements.

(2/5) Discussions of assignment operation, precedence and associativity. Increment (++) and decrement operations (--). Compound assignment operations. Summary of components of C++ program, including header files and compile-link cycle. Character processing including member functions get() and get(c). The end of file constant EOF. The ctype library. Introduction to text file processing; the <fstream.h> library.

(2/12) Iteration. The while and for loops. functions; value and reference parameters. Control constructs. Logical values and operators. bool type, relational operators. The enum statement. Examples.
(2/19) NO CLASS

(2/26) Arrays. Introduction to pointers. Formatting of output, using iostream.h and iomanip.h; the stream manipulator setw(). The Vector class. Examples.

(3/12) Programmer defined functions. Value versus Reference parameters. Local objects. const parameters. Templates. Overloading functions using namespaces and the scope resolution operator.

(3/19) Introduction to records (struct). Input files and peek() member function. MIDTERM QUIZ.

(3/26) Extending the struct construct to class. The programmer-defined data type. Information hiding, encapsulation, data members, member functions. public and private access. Constructor, inspector, and facilitator member functions. Application to the circle class.

(4/2) Dereferencing pointers to records. Adding I/O facilitators to classes. Auxiliary (non-member) operators. Operator overloading. Header and implementation files.

(4/9) Incorporating overloaded operators into class. Command line arguments. Creating a complex number number class.

(4/16) Implementing linked lists. The friend access modifier. Nontrivial destructors. Random number generation using rand() and srand(). Dice simulation. Construction of primitive Stack type. Class templates.
(4/23) SPRING RECESS -- NO CLASS

(4/30) Pointers. lvalues and rvalues. The address operator & and the indirection operator *. Pointers as parameters. Constant pointers and pointers to constants. Object-oriented analysis and design. Data abstraction and the abstract data type (ADT). Casting of parameters and function overload resolution. Dynamic data types.

(5/7) Inheritance. The is-a, has-a, and uses-a relationships. Base class versus derived classes. public inheritance and private inheritance. Single inheritance versus multiple inheritance. Polymorphism. virtual member functions. Abstract base classes.