Course - C++ Language

OOPS

• Software Quality factors (Robustness, correctness, portability etc)
• External and Internal quality factors
• Modularity, Reusability, Genericity and Overloading
• Road to Object Orientedness, Object Oriented philosophy
• Top down design method, Object Oriented design
• Steps towards Object oriented happiness

C++ Language Features

• History, Structure of a C++ program, Function prototyping
• C++ operators, Variable declaration
• Default argument functions, inline functions, inline v/s macros
• const declaration, const v/s #define, Variable references
• Function overloading, Default argument functions, extern "C" declaration
• References v/s pointers
• Memory allocation and deallocation using new and delete operators
• IO Streams, cout, cin and cerr objects
• Comparison of cout and cin with printf() and scanf()

C++ Class concept

• Data members and member functions (manager, accessor and setter functions)
• Access specifiers: public, private and protected
• Reference, static, const and pointer variables as data members
• Magic pointer (this). Operator overloading
• Default member functions: constructor, destructor, assignment operator and copy constructor
• Constant and static member functions. Interface and implementation
• Objects the instances of the classes, Object creation, accessing data members using objects
• Classes v/s objects. Array of objects and constant objects
• Class objects as members of other classes, initialization v/s assignment
• User defined constructor. Friend functions and friend classes
• Empty class, Overloading of new and delete operators etc.
• Account, complex, string example etc. would be discussed
• Type conversion
• Primitive to primitive : typecasting operators
• Primitive to user defined : constructor
• User defined to primitive : conversion operator
• User defined to user defined : constructor and conversion operators
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Inheritance

• Base and derived classes
• What goes into derived class
Types of derivation : public, private and protected
• Function overriding, Overriding v/s overloading
• Inheritance v/s containment ('is a' and 'has a' relationship)
• Types of inheritance: single, multilevel, multiple, repeated
• Standard conversions between base and derived. Virtual derivations

Polymorphism

• Virtual functions, virtual table (Shape class etc)
• Polymorphism, Static and dynamic binding, runtime overheads
• Pure virtual functions, Abstract Base Class, Interface, Virtual destructor
• Multiple and Repeated inheritance, Role of virtual base class
• Int Vector, protected int vector, range int vector etc.

C++ File I/O

• ios, stream input - istream class, stream output - ostream class
• Built-in manipulator functions : endl, dec, hex, oct, ws, ends, flush, setw, setfill
• User defined manipulators. File input - ifstream class, file output - ofstream class
• opening and closing files: open() and close()
• Reading and writing to and from the file : read() and write()
• eof(), file pointers and their manipulators : seekg(), seekp(), tellg(), tellp()
• Streambuf class and filebuf class

Templates

• Function templates, template functions
• Class templates and template classes
• Overloading v/s templates
• Stack, Vector templates etc.

Exception handling

• Exception handling v/s traditional error handling
• Exception classes
• try, throw, catch keywords

Namespaces

• Namespace concept. Declaring and using them in applications. Namespace alias etc.

Cast Operators

• const cast, static cast, dynamic cast and reinterpret cast. RTTI (Run time type identification), Building application using RTTI.

STL

• Introduction to STL (Standard Template Library): list, stack, deque, vector, map etc. Building applications using these classes.