C++ Programming – Detailed Course Outline

Section 1 – Getting Started 

• Object-Oriented Fundamentals
  • Programming Paradigms
  • Conquering Complexity
• C++ Basics
  • Built-in Types, Arrays and Pointers
  • Comments, Keywords, I/O Streams
  • Built-in Operators and Control Constructs
  • Dynamic Free Store Operators
• C++ Functions
  • Definition and Prototypes
  • Inline Functions
• Structures and References

Section 2 – Classes and Objects

• Encapsulation
  • Data Members, Member Functions
  • Private and Public
•  Constructors and Destructors
  • Default Arguments
  • Storage Allocation and Deallocation
  • this Pointer
  • Copy Constructors

Section 3 – Overloading

• Overloading Functions
• Overloading Operators
  • Unary and Binary Operators
  • Initialization vs. Assignment
  • Stream Input and Output

Section 4 – Polymorphic Programming

• Inheritance
  • Public Inheritance and Subtyping
  • Base and Derived Classes
  • Constructors and Destructors
  • Base Class Initialization
  • Using Protected keyword
• Virtual Functions
  • Base Class Pointers and References
• Dynamic Binding
  • Abstract Base Classes
  • Pure Virtual Functions
  • Virtual Destructors

Section 5 – Code Reuse in C++

• Containment
  • Objects as Data Members
  • Member Initialization
• Private Inheritance 
  • Base and Derived Relationship
  • Access Declarations

Section 6 – Designing with C++

• Templates
  • Template Functions
  • Template Classes
• Exceptions
  • try, catch, throw
  • Exception Hierarchies