COP 4338 Lectures

Updated 3/29/2007

C++ Language

Basic C++

• Slideshows and sample programs: simplest.zip
• Comparing C++ to C
• Basic input/output using iostreams
• bool type
• enum types
• const parameter types
• reference types and reference parameters
• overloading functions and overload resolution
• casting between types
• strings
• useful utilities: utils.cpp

Classes

• powerpoint show (9/12/06)
• examples (9/12/06)
• Java/C++ differencew
• defining classes
• use of header and cpp files in classes
• scope resolution (::) operator
• member functions
• inline function
• implicit this pointer
• overloading constructors
• default parameter values
• initializer lists
• destructors
• copy constructor
• const member functions
• static members
• motors application, versions 1 and 2

IOStreams

• iostream library with vector example
• stream condition states
• string streams
• iostream format state
• file I/O

Arrays and Pointers

• pointers slide show
• Demos for arrays and pointers: arrays.zip
• pointer type
• C-style strings
• Array data type
• array parameters
• array slide show; twoDimensionalArrayExample
• squares.cpp: fills an array with perfect squares.sizeof operator
• reading the command line
• printEnvironment.cpp, printArguments.cpp
• dynamic memory allocation
• auto_pointer objects

ANSI C Programming

• Creating a C program
• basic structural and syntax differences from Java
• structures
• printf and scanf (stdio.h standard C library)
• preprocessor directives
• striing.h standard C library
• conversion functions (atoi, atof, ftoa, toupper, tolower)
• conio.h standard C library
• dynamic allocation (malloc, release)
• pointers to functions
• macros
• file I/O with fscanf and frpintf
• Weiss/Irvine powerpoint show.
• Program examples (WinZip file)

Exam 1: ANSI C and Beginning C++

Advanced C++

Inheritance and Polymorphism

• inheritance slideshow and examples (10/2/06)
• base class member access
• base & derived class construction & destruction
• abstract classes
• virtual member functions
• virtual destructors
• RTTI, dynamic_cast<>, and typeid
• exception handling and inheritance
• multiple inheritance and virtual inheritance
• public, private, and protected inheritance

Basic Containers

• vector container type
• list container type
• iterators
• sequence container operations
• vectors slide show

Exception handling

• exception handling
• exception specifications
• exception hierarchy in the standard library
• exception handling slide show and examples

Operator Overloading

• operator overloading
• friend keyword
• overloading the << and >> operators
• overloading various operators
• overloading the conversion operator
• Slide shows: operators,
• Time example; StudentVector example

Function Templates

• function templates
• overloading function templates

Generic Algorithms

• generic Algorithms library
• algorithms slide show; algorithms example
• function objects
• class templates
• pair<> type
• set, multiset, multimap and multiset
• containers slide show
• container examples (WinZip file)
• template examples (including function templates)

Advanced Java

Objects and Reflection

• Objects Slide show
• sample programs
• Reflection Slide show
• Doubling the size of an array using reflection: ArrayDouble
• Simple example that class Field.get(): SampleGet
• Getting lists of methods in a class: MethodTest1
• Spying on the private fields in an object: HeroSpy
• Invoking the main() method of a class: InvokeMain
• Constructing an object with parameters: SampleInstance
• Invoking a method when its signature is known: InvokeExample

Proxies

• The slide show and examples.

Exam 2: Advanced C++ and Java Reflection

Threads & Synchronization

• Threading Slide show
• ThreadDemo by Weiss.
• Simple threading examples: Thread1, Thread2, Join, Daemon, Interrupt, Priority
• Synchronization Slide show
• Simple Semaphore test program:SemaphoreTest
• Thread interruption example: GetUserInput
• Two unsynchronized threads modify the same object: NoSync
• Threads using synchronized methods exchange integer values: Sync1, Sync2, Sync3
• Synchronizing both static and nonstatic methods: Static
• Bank account progs that show how to use wait() and notifyAll(): AccountDemo1, AccountDemo2, AccountDemo3 (updated) , AccountDemo4, AccountDemo5
• SemaphoreTest program (relates to Project 2)
• Creating and resolving deadlock: BankDemo1, BankDemo2

Networking

• The slide show
• Demonstrating the InetAddress class
• Single-threaded echo server
• Client that connects to the echo server
• Multithreaded echo server
• UDP time of day example
• Reading a Web page; reading a pasword-protected Web page
• Sending email
• Sending datagrams
• All example programs