Course Syllabus

EET 470: Programming in C++

Credit Hours: 3 sem hrs.

Text: C++ How to Program, Deitel/Deitel, Prentice-Hall, 1994
Inside Visual C++, Second ed., Kruglinski, Microsoft Press, 1994

Suppl. text: Microsoft Visual C++ Programmer's Reference, Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft Visual C++ User's Guide, Microsoft Corp.

Software: Microsoft Visual C++

Prerequisites: EET 357,EET 361

Instructor: Prof. George Coures

Date Prepared: Spring 1996

Objectives:

• To introduce the concept of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) as a model of building programs as a collection of abstract data types.
• How to design and implement programs using C++
• To identify the data types that represent objects in the solution of a problem.
• To encourage the student to think, both critically and flexibly, about problems in program design and implementation.
• How to recognize a function in it's polyorphic (multi-form) state.
  

Topical Outline

Weeks 1 & 2: C++ Type System

1. Numeric
2. Conversion Operators/Casts
3. Scalar, Relational & Logical
4. Pointer and Array
5. Reference
6. Const Qualified
7. User-defined

• C++ Introductory program
• Keywords supported in C++ and carried over from C.
• Order of precedence and associattivity of symbols.
• Assign appropriate computer programs and exercises
• Students should have sufficient background in C to minimize review.
• Review and summarize material.
• History and background of C++

Weeks 3 & 4: Functions

1. Modular
2. File Organization in C++
3. Overloading & Inline
   

• Short review in function, theory will probably be necessary.
• Emphasis on those functions that are supported only in C++
• The prototype function from C is carried over to C++
• Assign appropriate programs & exercises
• Review & summarize

Weeks 5 & 6: Classes

1. Class Types
2. Data Types
3. Function Members
4. Operator Functions
5. Class Members: Public & Private
6. Initialization & Conversions
7. Pointers to Class Members
   

• Because C++ supports a three-fold number of classes as in C; an additional half-week may be necessary. Some are complex requiring additional time.
• Assign appropriate programs & exercises
• Review & summarize
• Example programs should be utilized when covering: template, vector, hierarchy, handler, public & private classes
• Theory of pointers should be reviewed

Weeks 7 & 8: Data Abstraction

1. Aggregate type class
2. Abstract data type (ADT) in conversions (automatic)
3. Overloading Operators: Unary & Binary
4. ADT has no equivalent type in C

• Class types are used to implement ADT
• The keyword from C; (struct should be reviewed, since it is an extension of class concept)
• Overloading refers only to C++
• Unary & binary are carried over to C++ from C.
• Appropriate programs, exercises, review & summarize

Weeks 9 & 10: Inheritance

1. New class derived from Old Class
2. Public, private, and protected keywords as access modifiers for class members
3. Multiple inheritance
   

• Exclusive C++ mechanism
• Subtypes of its base class
• Constructors & de-structors should be reviewed
• Pointers to class members vs. pointers to class
• To derive one class from multiple base classes
• Syntax of class headers must be modified
• Appropriate programs, exercises
• Review & summarize

Week 11: OOP Using C++

1. C++ as a hybrid language.
2. OOP language requirements
3. Clients & Manufacturers
4. Polymorphic concepts.
5. OOP design methodology
   

• Briefly refer to the PL/I language as a hybrid language
• Emphasis on inheritance, type extensibility, data hiding, polymorphism
• OOP = type extensibility + polymorphism
• Appropriate programs, exercises
• Summarize & review
• No program assignment

Weeks 12 &13: Storage Management

1. Classes of storage
2. Dynamic Storage Allocation
3. Free Store Operators
   

Briefly review storage classes from C: auto, Extern, Register, & Static

• New & Delete/Constructor & Destructor/Union/Static
• Appropriate programs, exercises
• Summarize & review

Last Revised: September 1, 1996