C++ Programming Training

Classes

• Creating a data structure
• Methods
• Object scope
• C++ input and output
• Namespaces
• Data abstraction
• Enforcing data encapsulation
• File organization
• Classes in C++
• Objects
• This pointer

Constructors and Destructors

• Debug output
• The default constructor
• When are constructors called?
• The destructor
• The copy constructor
• Other constructors
• Why did it work before?
• Composition
• The report class
• Code reuse
• Initialization lists
• Labs

Inheritance

• Inheritance
• Bugreport
• Protected access modifier
• Access and inheritance
• Constructors and inheritance
• Initialization lists revisited
• Multiple inheritance
• Labs

Virtual Functions

• Inheritance and assignment
• Inside report’s assignment operator
• Using pointers – a quick look at basics
• Class assignment and pointers
• Class assignment and pointers – a picture
• Static binding
• Polymorphisim
• The show_rep() function
• Using the show_rep() function
• Designing member function inheritance
• Labs

Pure Virtual Functions

• Bugfix and its relationship with bugreport
• Bugfix: association with bugreport
• Using bugfix with show_rep()
• Adding bugfix to the hierarchy
• Coding for the document class
• Reexamining the document class
• Pure virtual functions
• Designing member function inheritance
• Labs

References and Constants

• References
• Displaying references
• Changing references
• Pass by references
• Returning by reference
• Constant variables
• Constant references
• Constant methods
• Labs

New And Delete

• New and delete
• Array allocation
• The report class
• Compiler version of the copy constructor
• Guidelines for copy constructors
• The report constructors and new
• The report destructor and delete
• Virtual destructors
• Labs

Casting in C++

• Casting: a review
• New casting syntax
• Creating a string class
• The string class
• The conversion constructor
• Expanding our casting options
• Casting operator
• Using the casting operator
• Labs

Class Methods and Data

• Class data
• Class methods
• Using the new data
• More on class methods
• Labs

Overloaded Functions

• Function overloading
• Using overloaded functions
• Rules for overloading
• Overloading based on constness
• Default arguments
• Invoking functions with default arguments
• Labs

Overloaded Operators

• The basics of overloading
• Overloading with operator =+
• Coping with community
• Non-cummutative operators
• Friends and their problems
• The assignment operator
• Overloading the << Operator
• Using date with cout
• Labs

Exception Handling

• Why exception handling?
• try/catch/throw
• Exception classes
• Standard exception hierarchy
• Multiple catch blocks
• Catching everything
• Unhandled exceptions
• Exception in constructors and destructors
• Designing for exceptions
• Labs

Standard Template Library

• Class template concepts
• Standard template library (STL) overview
• Containers
• Iterators
• Iterator syntax
• Non-mutating sequential algorithms
• mutating sequential algorithms
• Sorting algorithms
• Numeric algorithms
• auto_ptr class
• string class
• Labs

STL Containers

• Container classes
• Container class algorithms
• vector class
• Additional vector class methods
• deque class
• list class
• set and multiset classes
• map and multimap classes
• Labs