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Tim Love

July 5, 2001

Abstract:

This document aims to provide people who have done an introductory C++ course the skills required to write bigger programs. Online versions are at http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/languages/C++/doc/doc.html (HTML); http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/languages/C++/doc/doc.pdf (PDF); and http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/documentation/docsource/index.html (LaTeX).

Contents
Introduction
Review
- Keywords
- Built-in Types and Enumerations
- Operators
- Selection
  - if
  - switch
- Loops
  - while, do
  - for
- Aggregation
  - arrays
  - structures and classes
- Pointers
- Functions
- Declarations
Memory Allocation
Scope and Namespaces
- Exercises
Object-orientated programming
Classes
- Derived classes
- Friend classes and functions
- Class member privacy
- Static members
- Const members
- Static Const members
- Overriding behaviour
- Exercises
Templates
The Standard Library
- Iterators
- Strings
- vector
- Queues
- list
- map
- bitset
- valarray
- Algorithms
- Set algorithms
- Using member functions
- Predicates
  - Creating predicates
  - Adapters
- Exercises
Dodgems: A longer exercise
- Arithmetic Routines
- Geometric Routines
- Graphics Routines
- Decision Routine
- Creating the Dodgem class
- Putting it all together
Exceptions
More on Classes
- Virtual members
- Abstract Classes
- Redefining operators
- A class definition example
- Redefining [ ]
- Redefining ()
- Redefining ->
- Exercises
Input/Output
- Simple I/O
- Formatting
- Stream Iterators
- Output of User-Defined types
- Input of User-Defined types
- String streams
Casts
Limits
Performance
Debugging
Common Difficulties and Mistakes
Program Development
- Style
- Makefiles
Specialist Areas
- Maths
- Hardware Interfacing: bit operations and explicit addresses
- Using routines from other languages
  - C
  - Fortran
The CUED Teaching System setup
A case history: linkscan
- Classes
- Code Organisation
- Testing
- Comparison of the C and C++ versions
C habits to give up
Things you probably don't need to know yet
- virtual inheritance
- typeid
- Pointers to Members
- virtual destructors
- Auto pointers
- operator functions
- union
- Making New Containers
- Non-type template parameters
- Initialising from tables
Glossary
References
Dodgem solution
- dodgem.cc
- dodgemgraphics.cc

Tim Love
2001-07-05