C++ Developer

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: GETTING STARTED

• The C++ language
• C++ editors
• Program structure
• Statements
• Comments
• The main function
• Introduction to variables, literals, and expressions
• Reading from stdin (cin) and writing to stdout (cout)
• Compilation, execution, and debugging

Session 2: VARIABLES & DATA TYPES

• Variable definition
• Variable initialisation (copy, direct, brace/uniform)
• Variable assignment
• Integers
• Floating point numbers
• Boolean
• Introduction to if statements
• Characters
• Strings
• Enums
• Structs
• Literals
• Constants
• Naming conventions

Session 3: OPERATORS

• Operator precedence and associativity
• Arithmetic operators
• The cmath library
• Increment and decrement operators
• Comma and conditional operators
• Relational operators
• Floating point number comparison
• Logical operators

Session 4: FUNCTIONS

• Definition
• Invocation
• Return values
• Parameters and arguments
• Local scope
• Forward declarations and definitions
• Multi-file programs
• Namespaces
• The preprocessor
• Header files
• Header guards

Session 5: SCOPE & CONVERSIONS

• Blocks
• Local variables
• Global variables
• Shadowing
• Internal and external linkage
• Global constants and inline variables
• Static local variables
• Type aliases
• The auto keyword
• Implicit and explicit type conversion

Session 6: DECISIONS & LOOPS

• If statements
• Switch statements
• Goto statements
• While loops
• For loops
• Break and continue

Session 7: ARRAYS & STRINGS

• Array declaration
• Array initialisation
• Array indexing
• Passing arrays to functions
• Sizing an array
• Traversing an array
• Sorting an array
• Multi-dimensional arrays
• Standard strings
• Reading a line from cin using std::getline
• Concatenating strings
• Sizing a string
• C-style strings

Session 8: POINTERS & REFERENCES

• The address-of operator
• The dereference operator
• Pointers
• Pointer declaration and assignment
• Null pointers
• Pointers and arrays
• Dynamic memory allocation
• Smart pointers
• References
• Reference declaration and initialisation
• References as function parameters
• Using references to pass arrays to functions
• Pointers vs. references
• The for each loop
• Introduction to std::array and std::vector

Session 9: MORE FUNCTIONS

• Parameters and arguments revisited
• Passing arguments by value, reference, and address
• Returning values, references, and addresses
• Inlining
• Overloading
• Default arguments

Session 10: CLASSES AND OBJECTS

• Classes, attributes, and methods
• Creating an object of a class
• Getting and setting an object's attributes
• Calling an object's methods
• Access specifiers
• Encapsulation
• Constructors
• Member initialisation
• Destructors
• The this pointer
• Class definitions and header files
• Const objects and member functions
• Static attributes and methods
• Friendly methods and classes

Session 11: OPERATOR OVERLOADING

• Arithmetic operator overloading using friendly and normal functions
• IO operator overloading
• Operator overloading using member functions (methods)
• Other operator overloading
• The copy constructor
• Copy initialisation
• Shallow vs. deep copying

Session 12: COMPOSITION & AGGREGATION

• Object relationships
• Composition
• Aggregation
• Associations
• Dependencies

Session 13: INHERITANCE

• What is inheritance and what is its purpose
• Base and derived classes
• Inheritance chains
• Derived class constructors
• Inheritance and access specifiers
• Extending base class functionality
• Overriding base class functionality
• Multiple inheritance

Session 14: POLYMORPHISM

• What is polymorphism and what is its purpose
• Pointers and references to derived objects
• Virtual functions
• The override specifier
• The final specifier
• Pure virtual functions
• Abstract base classes
• Interface classes
• Virtual base classes
• Dynamic casting

Session 15: TEMPLATES

• What is a template and what is its purpose
• Function templates
• Template classes
• Non-type parameters
• Function template specialisation
• Class template specialisation

Session 16: EXCEPTION HANDLING

• Syntax and semantic errors
• Detecting and handling assumption errors
• Assert and static_assert
• Return codes
• Exceptions
• Handling exceptions with try catch
• Throwing and re-throwing exceptions
• Catch-all handlers and exception specifiers
• Custom exception classes

Session 17: INPUT & OUTPUT

• Streams
• The iostream library
• Standard streams
• The insertion and extraction operators
• Manipulators
• istream and ostream
• ifstream and ofstream