C++ Programming

This course runs weekday evenings 25 sessions of 2 hours

C++ Programming- from Beginner to Beyond

Learning Outcome

• Learn to program with one of the most powerful programming languages that exists today, C++.
• Obtain the key concepts of programming that will also apply to other programming languages
• Learn Modern C++ rather than an obsolete version of C++ that most other courses teach
• Learn C++ features from basic to more advanced such as inheritance and polymorphic functions
• Learn C++ using a proven curriculum that covers more material than most C++ university courses
• Learn C++ from an experienced university full professor who has been using and teaching C++ for more than 8 years
• Includes Quizzes, Live Coding Exercises, Challenge Coding Exercises and Assignments
• New Section: Learn to use Visual Studio Code with C++
• New Section: Learn all about using C++ Lambda Expressions
• Activities and Assignments
• Hands-on practice and final project

Course Outlines:

1. Introduction
2. About the course
3. Why Learn C++
4. Modern C++ and C++ Standard
5. Installation and Setup Overview
6. Installing C++ compilers on Windows
7. Using the Command-line Interface on Windows
8. Using a Web based C++ Compiler
9. Using the Included Source Code Course Resource
10. Getting Started
11. Section Overview
12. Writing our first program
13. Building our first program
14. What are Compiler errors
15. What are Compiler Warnings
16. What are Linker errors
17. What are Running errors
18. What are Logic errors
19. Structure of a C++ Program
20. Section Overview
21. Overview of Structure of C++ Program
22. #Include Preprocessor Directive
23. Comments
24. The main () function
25. Namespaces
26. Basic Input and Output (I/O) using cin and cout
27. Using cout and the insertion operator to say Hi to Frank
28. Using cout and the insertion operator
29. Using cin and the extraction operator
30. Variables and Constants
31. Section overview
32. What is a variable?
33. Declaring and Initializing Variables
34. Global variables
35. C++ built-in Primitive types
36. What is the size of the variable
37. What is a Constant?
38. Declaring and Using Constants
39. Arrays and Vectors
40. Section overview
41. What is an Array?
42. Declaring and Initializing Arrays
43. Accessing and Modifying Array Elements
44. Declaring, Initializing and Accessing an Array
45. Multidimensional Arrays
46. Declaring and Initializing Vectors
47. Accessing and Modifying Vector Elements
48. Declaring, Initializing and Accessing Vectors
49. Statements and Operators
50. Section overview
51. Expressions and Statements
52. Using Operators
53. The Assignment Operator
54. Arithmetic Operators
55. Using the Assignment Operator
56. Using the Arithmetic Operators
57. Increment and Decrement Operators
58. Mixed Expressions and Conversions
59. Testing for Equality’
60. Relational Operators
61. Logical Operators
62. Compound Assignment Operators
63. Operator Precedence
64. Logical Operators and Operator Precedence – Can you work?
65. Controlling Program Flow
66. Section Overview
67. If Statement
68. If Statement – Can you Drive?
69. if else Statement
70. If-Else Statement – Can you Drive?
71. Nested if Statements
72. switch-case Statement
73. Conditional Operator
74. Looping
75. For Loop
76. For Loop- sum of odd integers
77. Range-based for loop
78. Using the range-based for Loop
79. While Loop
80. While loop exercise
81. Do while loop
82. Continue and break
83. Infinite loops
84. Nested loops
85. Character and Strings
86. Section overview
87. Character Functions
88. C-Style strings
89. Working with C Style strings
90. C++ Strings
91. Working with C++ Strings
92. Using C++ strings
93. Final Project