Introduction

• The C Language and its Advantages
• The Structure of a C Program
• Writing C Programs
• Building an Executable Version of a C Program
• Debugging a C Program
• Examining and Running a C Application Program

Data Types and Variables

• Data Types
• Operands, Operators, and Arithmetic Expressions

Input/Output Management

• The Input/Output Concept
• Formatted Input Function

Control-Flow Statements

• The Control-Flow Program Statements
• Looping Statements
• The Data-checking process

Modular Programming with Functions

• The C Function
• Passing Data to Functions
• Passing an Address to Modify a Value in Memory
• Using Functions in the Checkbook Program
• C Standard Library Functions

Arrays, Pointers, and Strings

• Arrays , Pointers , Strings
• Using Arrays, Strings, and Pointers in the Checkbook Program

Structures

• Structures
• Arrays of Structures
• Passing Structures to Functions
• Nesting Structures

File Input/Output

• Command-line Arguments
• Combining Command-line

Introduction to C++

• Creating a project
• Writing, compiling and running a program

Variables and data types

• Expressions
• Constants
• Operators
• Type conversions

Looping constructs: while, do…while, for loops

• If…else statements
• Switch/case construct

Functions

• Passing arguments
• Function prototyping
• Default argument initializers
• Inline functions

Arrays

• Array initialisation
• Multi-dimensional arrays
• Character arrays
• Working with character strings

Storage Classes

• Global variables

Pointers

• Pointer and arrays
• Pointers to character strings
• Arrays of pointers
• Memory slicing
• Pointers to functions

C++ classes

• Data members and member functions
• Creating objects
• The new and delete operators
• Friends to a class
• Class initialisation

Reference types

• Reference type arguments

Function overloading

• Operator overloading

Copy constructor

• Assignment operator

Template classes

• Static class members
• File streams

Inheritance

• Base classes and derived classes
• Inherited member access
• Base class initialisation
• Protected members of a class

Virtual functions

• Virtual destructors

Virtual base classes

• Virtual base class member access
• Constructor and destructor ordering

Exception handling

• try…throw…catch block
• Nested catch handlers