CS 1570 - Intro to Programming C++

The following is a list of the topics covered in one semester of CS 1570 and the accompanying lab, CS 1580:

• • A review of the course syllabus

  • An introduction to how computers work:

    • hardware

    • software

    • high and low level computer languages

    • compilers

    • editing, compiling, and running programs in C++

  • C++ basics

    • declarations of variable types (integer types, float types, char, bool, STL string class, consts

    • operators (assignment, arithmetic, modulus, arithmetic-and-assign, ++ and --

    • logical operators (&&, ||, !)

    • relational operators (<, <=, >, >=, ==, !=)

  • flow control structures

    • if, if-else, and switch-case

    • while loops

    • do-while loops

    • for loops

    • nested if's and loops

  • ternary operator

  • functions

    • prototypes

    • definitions

    • invocations

    • pass-by-value vs. pass-by-reference parameters

    • Pre- and Post- conditions

    • function overloading

    • function templates

    • inline functions

    • static variables

  • separate file compilations for programming project

  • structs

  • introducing the basics of arrays (single and multidimensional)

    • traversal

    • searching

    • sorting

    • modifications and use

  • file I/O

    • connecting and testing connection

    • closing connection

    • reading from a file and writing to a file

    • character input/output - getline() and get() and ignore() functions

  • classes and OOP

    • public and private

    • variables and functions

    • constructors

    • friend functions

    • overloading operators

    • template classes

    • static member variables, constants, and functions

  • pointers

  • inheritance

  • polymorphism

  • other topics

    • namespaces

    • command-line arguments

    • enumerations

    • typedefs