C++ Course

This course is designed as a fast-paced introduction to C++ programming language being intended for students with a good degree of hardware awareness and moderate previous programming experience (e.g. Java and Matlab). C++ is a general purpose programming language that supports generic computer programming models. By practical training on Microsoft Visual Studio, which is the common integrated development environment (IDE) popular on Windows operating systems, students are exposed to practical programming problems and their solutions. The students will be given examples written in ANSI/ISO standard C++, and gain transferable knowledge for other programming domains (e.g. programming with third-party libraries). 

Recommended resources:

• Liberty, Jesse, and Bradley L. Jones. Sams teach yourself C++ in 21 days. Sams Publishing, 2004. 

• Meyers, Scott. Effective modern C++: 42 specific ways to improve your use of C++ 11 and C++ 14. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2014. 

• Meyers, Scott. Effective STL: 50 specific ways to improve your use of the standard template library. Pearson Education, 2001. 

• Meyers, Scott. Effective C++: 55 specific ways to improve your programs and designs. Pearson Education, 2005. 

Project Definition (Part 1)

Lecture 1:

This lecture covers the following topics:

• Project definition 

• What is C++?

• C++ and OOP 

• Hello World! 

• Visual studio 

• Variables 

• Constants 

• Enumerated constants 

Lecture 2

This lecture covers the following topics:

• Expressions

• The if-else statement

• The conditional operator

• The switch Statement

• Functions

• Recursive functions

• Loops

• Function parameters and arguments 

Lecture 3

** Note that we have learnt the "slides of lecture 3" in 2 subsequent weeks, due to the noise coming from the tractors on 26th of February. That is why we have 2 videos for the same set of slides.

This lecture covers the following topics:

• The solutions to the given exercises

• Function parameters and arguments

• Pointers

• Memory

• Function templates

• Standard Template Library (STL)

  • Containers (vector)

Lecture 4

This lecture covers the following topics:

• Function templates (exercise)

• Template Specialization

• Standard Template Library (STL)

  • Containers 

    • error handling

  • Algorithms

  • Lambda functions

  • Smart pointers

• Header guards

• Boost library

How to add boost library to a project created by Visual Studio?

Lecture 5

This lecture covers the following topics:

• Solutions to the given exercises

• Read/write files and parsing strings

• Regular expressions

• Classes

  • Constructors

  • Copy assignment

  • Destructor 

• Exercise

Lecture 6

This lecture covers the following topics:

• Classes

  • Static variables and members

  • The solution to the exercise

  • Your questions

• Inheritance

  • Overriding

  • Polymorphism

  • Virtual functions

  • Virtual destructor

Lecture 7

This lecture covers the following topics:

• Inheritance​

  • Inheritance specifiers​

  • Const functions​

  • Multiple and Virtual inheritance​

• Interface and abstract classes​

• DLL and Qt project​

Lecture 8

This lecture covers the following topics:

• Qt GUI​

  • Meta-object compiler​

  • Signals and slots​

  • A Qt project (showed in the class)​

• Threads​

• Your questions about Qt and your final project​

Lecture 9

This lecture covers the following topics:

• Threads​

  • Data race​

  • Mutex, atomic, condition variables​

  • A Qt project (showed in the class)​

• A review over object-oriented programming​

• What should be sent as your final project?