Objectives

This course provides COBOL or C programmers with the fundamental skills needed to write the code for implementing simple classes.

They learn the key constructions of C++, the fundamentals of object-oriented analysis and design, and the basic skills required to use the integrated development environment within the Microsoft Visual C++.

At the end of the course, students will be able to use Visual C++ and to implement simple C++ console input/output (I/O) applications.

Main topics

• Fundamental concepts of object-oriented analysis and design
• Fundamentals of the C++ language
• Built-in data types • operators • statements and functions • flow control • arrays, references, and pointers • structures
• Building simple classes
• Access specifiers • constructors and destructors • Set and Get functions • default arguments
• Function name overloading
• Static member functions and objects • embedded objects • inheritance
• Memory management
• Conversions
• Using the integrated development environment
• Build and compile options • MAK and header files
• Integrated debugger
• Using commercially available classes
• Stream objects • string objects • file objects