C++ Programming

Course Code: GN-310  Duration: 5 Days 

This 5 day course covers the C++ language including recent features from the C++11 and C++14 updates. The course covers the C++ language without assuming a particular target environment although we can also offer modules on particular areas such as MFC or Linux programming if required. The course includes several standard projects and a large number of optional exercises. The outline below is an example, as we would vary the content depending on your prior experience.

Course Content

Getting Started

• Writing, building and running a C++ Program.
• Language structure.
• The main function.
• Basic stream and console input/output.
• Declaring and Initializing variables.
• Fundamental data types. Strings.

Structured Programming

• Control flow, loops and conditions.
• The for loop.
• Do and while. If and else.
• The conditional expression.
• Functions and argument passing.
• Argument passing by value and reference.
• Predeclarations and prototypes.
• Using header files.
• The switch statement.
• Variable scope - local, static, global.
• Variable lifetimes.
• Using namespaces.
• Memory management.
• Casting and cast types.

Object Orientation

• What is object orientation?
• Defining classes and creating objects.
• Classes vs data structures.
• Object oriented design concepts.

Using Objects

• Encapsulation and data hiding.
• Constructors and destructors.
• Default constructors and initialization.
• Class definition and implementation.
• Inheritance and polymorphism.
• Overriding.
• Constructing applications using objects.
• Class examples.
• Practical polymorphism.
• Virtual functions.
• Abstract base classes.
• Run time type information and dynamic_cast.
• Constant and static members.
• Using 'this'.
• Calling the base class constructor explicitly.
• Friends.
• Multiple inheritance and virtual base classes.

Dynamic Objects

• Pointers and the use of new and delete.
• Arrays and collections.
• Safe use of pointers.
• Pointers and references.
• Range-based for loop - 'for each'.

Operator Overloading

• Defining an operator function.
• Some rules.
• Mixing types.
• Implementing a postfix operator.
• Type conversion operators.
• Copy constructors and the assignment operator.
• Function objects and functors.
• Indexers.

Streams

• The I/O stream library.
• Inserters and extractors.
• Error handling.
• Using exceptions.
• Using I/O streams with files.
• Flags and manipulators.
• Formatting.

Templates

• Function templates.
• Type safety.
• Using multiple parameter types.
• Class templates.
• Using template classes.
• Using constants.

Smart Pointers

• What is a smart pointer?
• Smart pointers vs conventional pointers.
• Shared pointers.
• Unique pointers.
• Weak pointers.
• dynamic_pointer_cast.
• Alternatives outside the standard library.

The Standard Template Library

• Collection classes.
• Vector.
• Reserving capacity.
• Iterators.
• Using auto for complex types.
• Stream iterators.
• Algorithms.
• Predicates.
• Using member functions in algorithms.
• Sorting.
• Collection types.
• Sets, maps and find.
• Threads and multitasking.

Exception Handling

• Overview of exception handling.
• Using traditional exception handling.
• Using the Standard Library exception class.
• Throwing and catching.
• bad_alloc.
• Overloading new and delete.

Additional and Historic Features

• Lambdas.
• Structs, unions and typedef.
• More about main.
• Logical and bitwise operators.
• Conditional compilation and the pre-processor.
• Compatibility with C.
• More streams.
• Ancient features you may still meet.

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