Introduction to C++

  • Creating a project
  • Writing, compiling and running a program

Variables and data types

  • Expressions
  • Constants
  • Operators
  • Type conversions

Looping constructs: while, do…while, for loops

  • If…else statements
  • Switch/case construct

Functions

  • Passing arguments
  • Function prototyping
  • Default argument initializers
  • Inline functions

Arrays

  • Array initialisation
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Character arrays
  • Working with character strings

Storage Classes

  • Global variables

Pointers

  • Pointer and arrays
  • Pointers to character strings
  • Arrays of pointers
  • Memory slicing
  • Pointers to functions

C++ classes

  • Data members and member functions
  • Creating objects
  • The new and delete operators
  • Friends to a class
  • Class initialisation

Reference types

  • Reference type arguments

Function overloading

  • Operator overloading

Copy constructor

  • Assignment operator

Template classes

  • Static class members
  • File streams

Inheritance

  • Base classes and derived classes
  • Inherited member access
  • Base class initialisation
  • Protected members of a class

Virtual functions

  • Virtual destructors

Virtual base classes

  • Virtual base class member access
  • Constructor and destructor ordering

Exception handling

  • try…throw…catch block
  • Nested catch handlers