CP401 – Comprehensive C++ Programming

CP401: Comprehensive C++ Programming courses are offered by Software Training Academy.

Section 1: Essential skills for modern C++

Chapter 1: An introduction to C++ programming

• An overview of programming and C++

• Four general-purpose programming languages

• A Brief History of C++

• A quick look at C++ development

• The user interface for a console application

• The source code for a console application

• How source code compiles to an executable file

• Four popular IDEs and compilers

• How to use Visual Studio for Windows development

• How to open a project and work with source code

• How to compile and run a projects

• How to use code completion and error detection

• How to create a new project

• How to use Xcode for macOS development

• How to open a project and work with source code

• How to compile and run a project;

• How to use code completion and error detection

• How to create a new project

Chapter 2: How to Write Your First Programs

• Basic coding skills

• How to code statements

• How to code comments

• How to code a main() function

• How to create identifiers

• How to work with numeric variables

• How to define and initialize variables

• How to code assignment statements

• How to code arithmetic expressions

• How to use the console for input and output

• How to include header files

• How to write output to the console

• How to read input from the console

• The Gallons to Liters program

• How to work with the standard library

• How to call a function

• How to work with the standard namespace

• The Circle Calculator program

• How to generate random numbers

• How to work with char and string variables

• How to assign values to char and string variables

• How to work with special characters

• How to read strings and characters from the console

• How to fix a common problem with reading strings

• The Guest Book program

• How to test and debug a program

• How to test a program

• How to debug a program

Chapter 3: How to make decisions

• How to get started with if statements

• How to use the relational operators

• How to code an if statement

• How to work with braces

• The Invoice 1.0 program

• More skills for coding if statements

• How to use the logical operators

• If statements that use the logical operators

• How to code nested if statements

• The Invoice 2.0 program

• Other ways to make decisions

• How to use the conditional operator

• How to code switch statements

• More examples of switch statements

• A switch statement for the Invoice 2.0 program

Chapter 4: How to code loops

• More skills for coding arithmetic expressions

• How to use arithmetic unary operators

• How to use the compound assignment operators

• How to work with the order of precedence

• How to code while and do-while loops

• How to code while loops

• More examples of while loops

• How to code do-while loops

• The Test Scores program

• How to code for loops and nested loops

• How to code for loops

• The Future Value program

• How to code nested loops

• How to code-break and continue statements

• How to code-break statements

• How to code continue statements

• The Guess the Number program

Chapter 5: How to work with I/O streams and files

• How to work with input streams

• An introduction to streams and buffers

• How unexpected input can cause problems

• How to discard data from an input stream

• How to detect data input errors

• How to handle data input errors

• How to work with output streams

• An introduction to stream manipulators

• How to specify the width of a column

• How to write-- or left-justify columns

• How to format floating-point numbers

• The Invoice 3.0 program

• How to work with file streams

• How to read and write a file

• How to append data to a file

• How to use the stream object to work with files

• How to check for errors when working with files

• How to read and write delimited data

• The Temperature Manager program

• How to work with string streams

• How to use a string stream to handle unexpected data

• The Temperature Analyzer program

Chapter 6 How to work with data types, strings, and vectors

• Basic skills for working with data types

• The fundamental data types

• How to define and initialize variables

• How to define and initialize constants

• The Light Years Calculator program

• More skills for working with data types

• How to work with type conversion

• How to work with data type sizes and limits

• How to fix problems with floating-point data

• How to work with vectors

• How to create a vector and refer to its elements

• How to initialize and loop through a vector

• How to use member functions of a vector

• The Test Scores program

• The Temperature Manager program

• How to work with strings

• How to create and loop through a string

• How to use basic member functions of a string

• How to search a string

• How to work with substrings

• How to modify a string

• How to check characters within a string

• The Create Account program

• The Word Jumble program

Chapter 7: How to Code Functions

• How to start coding your functions

• How to define and call a function

• The Miles Per Gallon program

• How to declare a function

• When and how to use local and global variables

• How to plan the functions of a program

• How to use a hierarchy chart

• The Convert Temperatures program

• More skills for coding functions

• How to use default values for arguments

• How to overload a function

• How to use reference variables as parameters

• How to use reference parameters to improve efficiency

• The Temperature Manager program

• How to work with header files and namespaces

• How to create, implement, and use header files

• How to define namespaces

• A header for getting input from the console

• The Future Value program

Chapter 8: How to test, debug, and deploy a program

• Basic skills for testing and debugging

• Typical test phases

• The three types of errors

• Common C++ errors

• How to plan the test runs

• A simple way to trace code execution

• How to use Visual Studio to debug a program

• How to set and remove breakpoints

• How to step through code

• How to inspect variables

• How to inspect the stack trace

• How to use Xcode to debug a program

• How to set and remove breakpoints

• How to step through code

• How to inspect variables

• How to inspect the stack trace

• How to deploy and run a program

• How to deploy a program

• How to run a deployed program

Section 2: More skills as you need them

Chapter 9: How to work with structures and enumerations

• Basic skills for working with structures

• How to get started with structures

• How to initialize a structure

• The Movie List 1.0 program

• More skills for working with structures

• How to nest structures

• How to use structures with functions

• How to compare structures for equality

• How to work with member functions

• How to work with member operators

• The Movie List 2.0 program

• How to work with enumerations

• Basic skills for working with scoped enumerations

• More skills for working with scoped enumerations

• How to work with unscoped enumerations

• The Monthly Bonus Calculator program

Chapter 10:: How to work with STL containers and iterators

• An introduction to STL containers and iterators

• A summary of STL containers

• A summary of STL iterators

• Basic skills for working with iterators

• Member functions shared by the STL containers

• How to iterate the data in a container

• More skills for working with vectors

• Member functions shared by the sequence containers

• Member functions of a vector

• How to set capacity to improve efficiency

• The Movie Rankings 1.0 program

• How to work with arrays

• Basic skills for working with arrays

• How to pass an array to a function

• How to work with lists

• An introduction to lists and forward lists

• Member functions of a list

• The Movie Rankings 2.0 program

• How to work with queues and stacks

• How to work with queues

• How to work with stacks

• How to work with sets

• Member functions of associative containers

• Code examples that work with sets

• How to work with maps

• Member functions and operators of a map

• How to insert key/value pairs and work with values by key

• The Word Counter program

• How to work with nested containers

• How to work with a vector of vectors

• How to work with a map of vectors

Chapter 11: How to work with STL algorithms

• An introduction to STL algorithms

• The relationship between containers, iterators, and algorithms

• How to call an algorithm

• How to pass a function as an argument

• Basic skills for working with algorithms

• How to use the non-modifying algorithms

• How to use the modifying algorithms

• How to use the min and max algorithms

• How to use the numeric algorithms

• How to use the sort and binary search algorithms

• The Number Cruncher program

• More skills for working with algorithms

• How to use algorithms with intervals of key/value pairs

• How to use algorithms with nested containers

• More skills for passing functions to algorithms

• How to work with function templates

• How to work with function objects

• How to work with lambda expressions

• The Uptime Percentage program

Chapter 12 How to work with built-in arrays and C strings

• Basic skills for built-in arrays

• How to create an array and access its elements

• How to initialize an array

• How to loop through an array

• How to pass an array to a function

• How to compare and copy arrays

• The Test Scores program

• How to work with C strings

• An introduction to C strings

• How to use C strings with input streams

• Some utility functions for working with C strings

• How to loop through a C string

• The Create Account program

• Advanced skills for built-in arrays

• How to search an array

• How to sort an array

• How to use STL algorithms with built-in arrays

• How to work with a two-dimensional array

• How to pass a two-dimensional array to a function

• The Top Five program

Chapter 13: How to work with exceptions

• How to get started with exceptions

• A function that doesn’t use exceptions

• How to throw an exception

• How to catch an exception

• A program that catches exceptions

• A program that prevents exceptions from being thrown

• More skills for working with exceptions

• How to catch multiple exceptions

• How to rethrow an exception

• The Temperature Manager program

• How to work with custom exceptions

• How exception handling works

Section 3 Object-oriented programming

Chapter 14 How to define classes

• An introduction to object-oriented programming

• A Movie structure that doesn’t provide encapsulation

• A Movie class that provides encapsulation

• How to define private data members

• How to define getter and setter functions

• The Movie List 1.0 program

• More skills for coding member functions

• How to work with private member functions

• How to convert between numbers and strings

• How to define constructors

• How to define destructors

• How to store a class in header and source files

• The header and source files for a Movie class

• When and how to use inline functions

• The Move List 2.0 program

• How to work with UML diagrams

• An introduction to UML diagrams

• UML diagrams with data types

• A Product class that implements a UML diagram

• The Product Viewer program

• How to work with object composition

• A Die class

• A Dice class

• The Dice Roller Program

• The Pig Dice game

• The console

• The code

Chapter 15 How to work with inheritance

• How to get started with inheritance

• How inheritance works

• How to define a superclass

• How to define a subclass

• How to define another subclass

• How polymorphism works

• The Product Viewer program

• More skills for working with inheritance

• How to define an abstract class

• How to control overriding

• How to work with multiple inheritance

• How multiple inheritance works

• The DayReader superclass

• The DayWriter superclass

• The DayIO subclass

• When to use inheritance

• How to use inheritance with custom exceptions

• Guidelines for using inheritance

Chapter 16 More skills for object-oriented programming

• How to work with static members

• How to code static data members and functions

• How to access static data members and functions

• The Console class

• Code that uses the Console class

• How to work with a friend function

• The FuelTank class

• A friend function that works with two classes

• How to overload operators

• How to overload arithmetic binary operators

• How to overload arithmetic unary operators

• How to overload relational operators

• How to overload the insertion and extraction operators

Section 4 Skills for legacy and generic programming

Chapter 17 How to work with memory and pointers

• An introduction to pointers and memory

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