Topics (Class notes)
- Computers and high-level programming languages
- Compiled and interpreted languages
- Real and virtual machines
- Stack-based execution model (functions and procedures)
- History of C and C++
- Structure of a C/C++ Program
- C: Compiling and linking
- C: Integral C Datatypes
- C: Real Valued Datatypes
- C: Arrays
- C: Strings
- C: Implicit and Explicit Type Conversion
- C: Compiling The Complete Picture
- C: Compiling Options
- C: Functions and prcedures, parameters
- C: Pointers
- C: Memory Allocation and Deallocation
- C: Pointers and arrays
- C: Command Line Arguments
- C: Plain C I/O - printf, scanf
- C: File I/O
- C: Safe I/O Programming
- C: The C Preprocessor; and Compiling Multi-Module Programs
- C: User-defined Types, Structures and Linked Structures
- Comments
- C++: Objects and classes - data and member functions
- C++: Access control - public, private
- C++: Constructors and destructors
- C++: Overloading - functions, operators, default parameters
- C++: Inheritance - protected members
- C++: Object oriented analysis and design
- C++: Polymorphism - virtual functions
- C++: Templates and the Standard Template Library
- C++: Execptions
- C++: Use of const
- C++: GUI programming
