Course description
Beginning with the syntax of the C++ language, the course proceeds to designing and implementing applications from a variety of disciplines using diverse programming techniques. Application areas may include selections from business data processing, operating systems, networking, simulation, graphics, language analysis, and artificial intelligence techniques as used in such areas as expert systems and gaming. A variety of design and programming methodologies will be used such as object-oriented, procedural, functional, and data-driven.
Course content
- Introduction to C++ using Procedural Programming and Structured (top-down) Design
- Primitive data types, operators, and expressions
- Control structures
- Repetition
- User defined functions and procedures
- Parameter passing by value and by reference
- System stack, scope, and lifetime of variables
- Function overloading
- Dynamically allocated structures
- Recursion and Functional Programming
- Linked lists (using SExprs)
- Recursion
- Trees (using SExprs)
- Searching (SExprs and state spaces)
- Depth-first search
- Breadth first search
- Table and Data Driven Programming
- Finite State Machines
- Table-driven methods for implementing finite state machines
- Object Oriented Design and Programming
- Object oriented concepts - classes
- Class relationships: composition and inheritance
- Polymorphism
Learning activities
- Lecture
- Seminar
- Laboratory assignments
- Reading
- Research
Means of assessment
| Attendance and Participation |
0% - 5% |
| Assignments (Minimum: 4) |
40% - 50% |
| Tests (Minimum: 1) |
15% - 50% |
| Final Examination |
25% - 40% |
| Total |
100% |
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to:
- analyze a well defined problem and design a program, using a top-down structured methodology or object-oriented design methodology;
- implement, using industry accepted styles, intermediate C++ applications from a design using a procedural, functional, table-driven, or object-oriented programming methodology as appropriate;
- modify large programs generated or written by another source;
- effectively describe and document a project including the design and the data and control structures of the program.
Textbook materials
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students
Malik, D.S. C++ Programming; Program Design including Data Structures. Latest edition. Course Technology.