This is the course for software developers with at least a basic knowledge in some other programming language, not necessarily object oriented. In four focused day, we will take you through all necessary steps to become productive within C++ programming!

The goal is to achieve practical skills to read and write typical C++ code, understanding the object oriented design of C++ code and having a good overview of the Standard Library.

Pre­requi­si­tes

Basic knowledge in some other programming language, not necessarily object oriented. Note that this is not an introduction to programming in general.

1. Introduction

2. Language Overview

• Object Oriented Programming
• Related Languages
• Program Structure and Syntax

3. Names, Variables and Types

• Naming Rules
• Definition and Declaration
• Scope
• Namespace
• Primitives and Literals
• Escape Characters
• Implicit Typecasting
• const
• enum and enum class

4. Expressions and Statements

• Statements
• Blocks
• Comments
• if-else, switch
• while, do-while, for, Range-based for
• brake, continue, return

5. Operators

• Arithmetic
• Comparison
• Logical
• Bit operators
• Others
• Precedence and Associativity
• Type Casting

6. Functions

• Definition
• Declaration
• Calling
• Default Arguments
• Value vs Reference Call
• Recursivity
• Overloading
• The main Function

7. Classes and Objects

• Class Definition
• Members
• Object State
• OO Analysis and Design
• Initialization and Constructors
• Destructor
• Resource Allocation

8. Modularization and Namespaces

• Declarations and Definitions
• Header Files
• Include Guard
• Linking
• MAKE
• Class Interface
• Namespace
• Typesafe Linking

9. Pointers and Arrays

• Pointer Types
• Pointer Operators
• Initializing
• Pointer to Object
• Const Pointers
• Arrays
• Array Indexing
• Array Initialization
• Strings
• Array of Arrays
• Arrays and Pointers
• Array/Pointer Arithmetic

10. Dynamic Memory Allocation

• Operator new
• Operator delete
• Owner Classes
• Linked List
• The this Pointer
• Function Pointers
• Pointers to Pointers
• typedef

11. More on Classes

• Objects as members
• Objects as arguments
• Static members
• Friends
• Constant methods
• Structs and unions
• Nested declarations

12. Derived Classes

• Base and Derived Classes
• Protected Members
• Initialization
• Type Conversion
• Dynamic Binding
• Abstract Classes
• Multiple Inheritance

13. Overloaded Operators

• The operator Keyword
• Member or Non-member
• Special Operator Rules
• Priority and Associativity
• The Assignment Operator
• Type Cast Operators

14. Exceptions

• Error handling
• Throw
• Exception Classes
• Catch
• Uncaught Exceptions
• Exception Declarations

15. Templates

• Function Templates
• Class Templates
• Template Programming

16. The Standard Library

• Collections
• Smart Pointers
• Streams
• Filesystem
• Threading
• Random Numbers
• Regular Expressions
• Time