Course Overview

We use the STL from the very start Module 2

Classes introduced in Module 3
Multiple source files and exceptions in Module 4
Class relationships, dynamic store in Module 5
Persistence (files) in Module 6
Class hierarchies in Module 7
Operator overloading in Module 8
Templates and design patterns in Module 9
More advanced use of the STL in Module 10

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History of C++

C++ invented by Bjarne Stroustrup early
1980s. Inspired by Simula67.

First commercial release 1985 was a C
preprocessor.

Now mostly native C++ compilers that directly
generate machine code.

ISO Standard in 1998 so older books and
compilers will differ in major ways.
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Assumed Knowledge of C

Types, declarations, type bool

Pointers, arrays and structures
C expressions, operators, statements
Functions, except:

Reference arguments
Overloaded names
Default arguments
Pointers to functions

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Why OO Development?

Improved structure of software easier to:

Understand

Maintain

Enhance

Reusable software components & modules:

Enhance an existing component

Make new components more generalised

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Key OO Concepts

Data Abstraction

ADTs, information hiding

C++ classes

Inheritance (generalisation)

Class hierarchies, inheritance

Polymorphism

Same operations on different classes/objects

Virtual functions

Operator overloading
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Classes and Objects

An object is like an ordinary variable:

Holds information

Software realisation of some real world thing

Can have certain operation applied to it

A class is (like) a type:

Abstraction of a set of objects that behave
identically

Defines internal implementation, operations

Can create (instantiate) objects from a class
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OO Software Development

OO Analysis:

Identifying required functionality, classes and their
relationships

OO Design:

Specifying class hierarchies, class interfaces and
class behaviour

OO Programming:

Implementing an OO design in an OO
programming language
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