Perspective

• The Software Crisis
• Building Software Has Been Difficult
• Design Techniques
• Large Software Systems
• Roots Of Object Technology
• What Is Object-Oriented Programming?
• C++ and Object-Oriented Programming
• Why C++?
• Features of C++
• Pros and Cons of C++?

The Language of Object-Orientation

• What Is an Object?
• What Is A Class?
• Encapsulation
• Data Hiding
• The Public Interface
• Relationships Among Classes
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Object-Oriented Design
• Exercises

C vs. C++

• Comments
• Namespaces
• Performing Simple Output
• Performing Simple Input
• Definitions Near To First Use
• Function Prototypes
• Structure Members
• The Reference Type
• Overloading Function Names
• Default Parameters
• The Scope Resolution Operator
• Aggregates
• Operators new and delete
• The bool Data Type
• The string Data Type
• Exercises

Fundamentals of Classes

• Data Types
• User Created Data Types
• Using The Class Concept
• Defining a class
• public and private Access Levels
• The Scope Resolution Operator ::
• public and private Access Levels (again)
• Using class Objects Like Built-in Types
• Scope
• Constructors
• Member Initialization Lists
• Destructors
• Array of Objects
• Pointers
• The this Pointer
• Passing Objects To Functions
• Returning Objects From Functions
• static Class Members
• Exercises

Operator Overloading

• Introduction
• Rules for Operator Overloading
• Rationale for Operator Overloading
• Overloading Member Functions
• Overloading Non-Member Functions
• friend Functions
• The copy Constructor
• The Assignment Operator
• Overloading [ ]
• Overloading Increment and Decrement Operators
• const Objects and References
• Exercises

Inheritance

• Introduction
• Inheritance - public base classes
• The protected Access Level
• Member Initialization Lists
• What Isn’t Inherited?
• Assignments Between Base And Derived Objects
• Compile-Time vs. Run-Time Binding
• virtual Functions
• Polymorphism
• virtual Destructors
• Pure virtual Functions
• Abstract Base Classes
• An Extended Inheritance Example
• Exercises

I/O in C++

• The iostream Library
• Predefined Streams
• operator<<
• Overloading << for User-Defined Classes
• Overloading >> for User-Defined Classes
• Manipulators
• Stream States
• Formatted I/O
• Disk Files
• Internal Transmission of Data
• Reading & Writing Objects
• Exercises

Introduction to the C++ Standard Template Library

• Introduction
• The Standard Template Library
• Design Goals
• STL Components
• Iterators
• Example: vector
• Example: list
• Example: set
• Example: map
• Example: find
• Example: merge
• Example: accumulate
• Function Objects
• Adaptors
• Exercises