Fundamentals of Programming

Course Detail

Course Outline

Week 1: Introduction to C++ Programming

1. Overview of C++ and its history
2. Setting up development environment (IDEs, compilers)
3. Basic structure of a C++ program
4. Variables, data types, and operators
5. Input and output (iostream)
6. Week 2: Control Structures and Functions
7. Decision making (if, else, switch)
8. Loops (for, while, do-while)
9. Break and continue statements
10. Introduction to functions
11. Function prototypes and definitions
12. Passing arguments by value and by reference

Week 3: Arrays and Strings

1. Introduction to arrays
2. Declaration, initialization, and accessing elements
3. Multi-dimensional arrays
4. Introduction to strings
5. String manipulation functions

Week 4: Object-Oriented Programming Basics

1. Introduction to object-oriented programming (OOP)
2. Classes and objects
3. Constructors and destructors
4. Access specifiers (public, private, protected)
5. Member functions and data members

Week 5: More on OOP: Inheritance and Polymorphism

1. Inheritance and derived classes
2. Base class and derived class relationships
3. Polymorphism and function overriding
4. Abstract classes and pure virtual functions

Week 6: More on OOP: Encapsulation and Composition

1. Encapsulation and information hiding
2. Accessor and mutator functions
3. Composition and aggregation
4. Class relationships: has-a and is-a

Week 7: Pointers and Dynamic Memory Allocation

1. Introduction to pointers
2. Pointer arithmetic
3. Dynamic memory allocation (new and delete operators)
4. Pointers and arrays
5. Pointer to objects

Week 8: File Handling and Exception Handling

1. File input/output (fstream)
2. Reading from and writing to files
3. Handling file exceptions
4. Introduction to exception handling
5. try, catch, and throw blocks

Week 9: Standard Template Library (STL)

1. Overview of the Standard Template Library (STL)
2. Containers (vectors, lists, maps)
3. Iterators and algorithms
4. Working with STL algorithms
5. Custom iterators

Week 10: Advanced Topics and Project

1. Smart pointers (unique_ptr, shared_ptr)
2. Move semantics and rvalue references
3. Template classes and functions
4. Introduction to C++11/14/17 features (depending on the course level)

Final project: 

Students work on a real-world application or project applying the concepts learned throughout the course.