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C++ Programming: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

Course: 327   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 4 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Create, compile and run C++ programs
  • Write functions, decisions, loops and exceptions
  • Declare, use and distinguish variables, constants, arrays, pointers and references
  • Define and implement classes to produce reliable, reusable code
  • Use STL classes and instantiate templates
  • Implement object-oriented designs using encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

Course Benefits
C++ is a well-established, mainstream language used across a broad range of applications. This course provides a solid foundation in C++ for programmers without assuming experience with the C language. You acquire knowledge of key object-oriented programming concepts and gain valuable hands-on experience developing C++ programs.

Who Should Attend
This course is for those interested in programming with C++, including application and systems programmers, software engineers and their managers. Professional programming experience is assumed. C programming experience is not required.

Hands-on Training
Exercises provide you with extensive C++ programming experience and include:
  • Writing, compiling and executing C++ programs
  • Performing arithmetic computations and string operations
  • Defining and calling top-level and class member functions
  • Reading and writing formatted I/O
  • Using for loops and if/else decisions
  • Defining and using new classes
  • Managing dynamic data
  • Extending a class with inheritance
  • Overloading functions and operators
  • Instantiating templates

Course Content
Introduction and Overview
  • Relating C, C++, Java and C#
  • The in-class development environment
  • Other development environments
C++ Programming Building Blocks
The main function and standard I/O
  • main's specification and body
  • Displaying values and strings to cout
  • Reading values from cin
  • Formatting with stream manipulators
Objects, constants and references
  • Declaring and initialising variables
  • Integer and floating point data types
  • Performing arithmetic calculations and displaying results
  • Passing messages to objects
  • Using references for efficiency and constants for safety
Defining and calling functions
  • Passing arguments to functions and returning values from functions
  • Call-by-value vs. call-by-reference vs. call-by-address
  • Scope, duration and initial values of local temporary and parameter variables
Decisions, loops and logic
  • Making decisions with if/else
  • bool vs. int logical values
  • if/else statement "chains"
  • Performing loops with while and for
  • Equality, relational and logical operators
  • Increment and decrement operators
Arrays, pointers and strings
  • Declaring and using arrays and pointers
  • Storing strings in character arrays
  • Accessing array elements via pointers
  • Pointers vs. references
  • Standard string class and functions
Defining C++ Classes and Objects
Encapsulating higher-level data types
  • Public member functions and private data members
  • Protected class members
  • Constructors and destructors
  • Member initialisation syntax
  • Self-reference: the this pointer
  • The class member operator (::)
Declaring, accessing and modifying objects
  • Manipulating arrays of objects, pointers to objects and references to objects
  • Invoking member functions
  • const member functions
  • Passing objects by value and by reference
Overloading and templates
  • Simplifying class interfaces
  • Function signatures
  • Overloading assignment (=) and insertion (<<)
  • friend functions and classes
  • Explicit copy construction
  • Avoiding default assignment and default copy construction
  • Using STL templates to define families of related classes
Separating interfaces and implementations
  • How separation supports code reuse
  • Building header files and code files
Extending Classes via Inheritance
Deriving new classes from existing classes
  • Construction and destruction of derived objects
  • Is-a-kind-of relationships
  • Reusability via incremental extensions
  • Base classes and derived classes
Utilising polymorphic functions
  • Overriding virtual base class member functions in derived classes
  • Runtime lookup of functions through base class pointers and references
Managing dynamic data
  • Allocating and deallocating memory with new and delete
  • Handling errors with try and catch
  • Avoiding memory leaks
Standards and Extensions
  • Standard vs. platform-specific implementations
  • Applicability to Windows and UNIX/Linux
  • Managed C++, C++/CLI and other extensions

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C++ Programming Comprehensive Introduction
Course Schedule
17 - 20 Jun, 2008
London
26 - 29 Aug, 2008
London
28 - 31 Oct, 2008
London
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London
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London

Participants developing C++ object-oriented programs.

£ 1,695 - Standard Tuition
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