COP 3330 - Notes and Resources

Code examples from the textbook (Savitch, Absolute C++, 3rd ed.)

My Fall 2023 COP 3363 course web site (pre-requisite course)

• Lecture notes from COP 3363, Fall 2023 (use as needed for review)

COP 3330 Lecture Notes / Outlines

• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
• Classes and Objects
• Compilation and Debugging
• More About Classes and Objects
• Operator Overloading Basics
• Composition: Objects as Class Members
  
• Arrays and Classes
• Dynamic Memory Allocation and Classes
• Automatics, Copy Constructor, Assignment Operator
• Some modifications to card game example (for dynamic practice)
• I modified class Card, to allow dynamic allocation for multiple Decks
• YOU try modifying Player and Dealer, to allow hands larger than 5 cards, mulitple players, etc
• Strings: C-strings vs. strings as objects
• Inheritance - The Basics
• Inheritance - Virtual Functions and Abstract Classes
  • Another set of examples, built up in pieces
• Multiple Inheritance
• Bitwise Operators
• Excel spreadsheet chart of bitwise operations (from class)
• Template Classes and Functions
• Intro to Data Structures
• Recursion
• Exception Handling
• Directory with some code examples using C++11 features

Miscellaneous

• Special notes about changing formatting settings for output streams

Test Formats and Review Checklists

• Review List of topics covered (for Test 1)
• Review List of topics covered (for Test 2)
• Review List of topics covered (since Test 2)
• Practice code-writing exercise
  • and one possible solution