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Description

This is a second course on computer programming that continues from CSCI 1060U and covers more advanced theory and practice. The lectures introduce modern concepts in program design and construction for larger scale programs. The laboratories provide an opportunity to apply these concepts. Topics that are covered in this course include advanced program design, basic design patterns, templates and standard template libraries, data structures, debugging and version control.

Grading

• Lab participation and completion 30%
• In-class quizzes/exercizes 5%
• Midterm exam 1 20% (Mon., Feb 22, in class, first half)
• Midterm exam 2 20% (Mon., Mar 29, in class, first half)
• Final exam 25% (Check the final exam schedule)

Important dates

Study break during the week of Feb 15

Ontario Tech University’s academic calendar that lists important dates (and deadlines) is available at here.

Course calendar

• Week 1
  • C++ introduction
  • Variables
  • Control flow
  • Functions
  • Console I/O
  • Bitwise operators
  • I/O redirection
  • std::vector
• Week 2
  • Output formatting
  • Commandline arguments
  • Random numbers
  • File I/O
  • Binary files
• Week 3
  • Multiple files
  • Makefile
• Week 4
  • Dynamic memory
  • new
  • delete
  • delete []
• Week 5
  • Pointers
  • Structures
  • Function pointers
  • Callbacks
  • Midterm review
• Week 6
  • Midterm 1
  • The class keyword
  • Access modifiers: public, protected, and private
  • Member variables and member functions
  • Constructor and destructor
  • Operator overloading: assignment operator
  • Initializer list
  • this pointer
  • Reference &
  • const functions
  • const references
  • friends functions
  • Extractor (>>) operator
  • Insertor (<<) operator
  • Static methods and variables
• Week 7
  • Inheritence
  • Polymorphism
  • Virtual functions
  • Abstract classes
• Week 8
  • Templates
  • Namespaces
  • Standard Template Library (STL) Introduction
• Week 9
  • STL containers
  • List
  • Deque
  • Queue
  • Priority Queue
  • Map
  • Sort
• Week 10
  • Revisiting function pointers
  • Functors
  • Lambda functions
• Week 11
  • Exception handling
  • PIMPL idiom
  • Swap idiom
  • Midterm 2
• Week 12
  • Version control using GIT
  • GNU Debugger (GDB)
  • Code profiling

Reading material

Course notes are available here http://csundergrad.science.uoit.ca/courses/cpp-notes/.

If you are in search of a good text book for this course. I recommend the following:

• Absolute C++, 6th Edition by Walter Savitch.

Programming Resources

I recommend using commandline tools for C++ development in this course. My system is configured as follows:

• iterm on OSX, [Windows Terminal(https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701?activetab=pivot:overviewtab)] on Windows, and the good old terminal on Linux
• zsh with oh-my-zsh framework
• C++ command line tools
• emacs, or Visual Studio Code (when I am feeling lazy)