Teaching Guidelines for
C++ Programming
PG-DAC September 2023
Duration: 72 hours (32 theory hours + 32 lab hours + 8 revision/practice hours )
Objective: To learn object oriented programming using C++
Prerequisites: Knowledge of computer fundamentals
Evaluation: 100 marks
Weightage: CCEE – 40%, Lab exam – 40%, Internals – 20%
Text Book:
C++ Primer Plus by Stephen Prata /Pearson
References:
Thinking in C++ by Bruce Eckel
The C++ Programming Language, Bjarne Stroustrup
(Note: Each Session is of 2 hours)
Sessions 1: Getting Started
Lecture:
Installation and Setup development environment
The need of C++
Features of C++
C++ versus C
History of C++
Writing your first C++ program
Lab:
Write different C++ programs to
Print Hello World
Add two numbers/binary numbers/characters
Calculate compound interest
Calculate power of a number
Swap two numbers
Calculate area of rectangle
Session 2: Beginning with C++
Lecture:
• C++Program structure
Introduction of advanced C++ concepts and feature of C++ 17
C++ Tokens
Initialization
Static Members
Constant Members
Expressions
Operators
• Arithmetic Operator
• Relational Operator
• Logical Operator
• Unary Operator
• Ternary Operator
• Assignment Operator
Lab:
Write a Student class and use it in your program. Store the data of 10 students and display
the sorted data according to their roll numbers, dates of birth, and total marks.
Implement all C++ operators
Declare members and implement in your programs.
Session 3: Conditional and Looping Statements
Lecture:
• If, else if, switch
• for loop
• while loop
• do while loop
Jump statement (break, continue& return keyword)
Arrays
Declaration and initialization of an array
1-D and 2-D arrays
Lab:
Implement all control structures through your program
Implement a program which accepts command line arguments from main function.
Session 4: Functions in C++
Lecture
Different forms of functions
Function prototyping
Call by Reference
Inline Functions
Math library functions etc.
Lab:
Implement functions through your program
Declare function and call it by reference and note the observations
Implement Inline functions in your program
Sessions 5 & 6: Memory Management and Pointers
Lecture
Introduction to memory management in C++
Pointers in C++
Arrays using pointers
Enumeration
Typedef
Using New operator
Class pointer
this pointer
Comparison of new over malloc, calloc and realloc, etc.
Memory freeing using Delete operator
Lab:
Assignments using pointers, arrays of pointers
Assignments on passing pointers in functions
Using pointers, write your own functions for the following:
o String comparison
o String concatenate
o String copy
o String length
Note: Do not include <string.h> in your program and implement Delete operator in your program.
Session 7: OOP Concepts
Lecture
Discussion on object oriented concepts
Classes and Objects, Access Specifiers, Overloading, Inheritance, Polymorphism
Constructors and Destructors
Namespaces
Lab:
Write a student class and use it in your program. Store the data of 10 students and display
the sorted data according to their roll numbers, dates of birth, and total marks.
Session 8: Constructor and Destructor
Lecture
Constructors
Parameterized constructors
Multiple constructors in class
Dynamic initialization of objects
Copy Constructors
Destructors
Lab:
Implement constructor and destructors through your program
Write a program to implement inner class in C++
Session 9: Inheritance – extending class
Lecture
Types of inheritance
Single inheritance
Multiple inheritance
Multilevel inheritance
Hierarchical inheritance
Hybrid inheritance, etc.
Virtual base class
Constructors in derived class
Lab:
Design a hierarchy of computer printers. Use multiple inheritance in your hierarchy. Also use
friend functions and classes in your program.
Session 10: Polymorphism
Lecture
Types of Polymorphism
Overloading functions
Overloading Operators
Friend functions
Constant functions
Lab:
Write Date and Time classes that allow you to add, subtract, read and print simple dates in
dd/mm/yyyy and time in hh:mm:ss formats. Use function overloading in your program.
Assignments to overload =, ==, +, ++, --, <<, >> and [ ]operators.
Session 11: Virtual Functions and Abstract Class
Lecture
Run Time Polymorphism
Virtual Functions and Pure virtual functions
dynamic_cast, static_cast,const_cast, reinterpret_cast
Interfaces
Abstract class
Lab:
Implement Abstract classes in your program
Using virtual and pure virtual functions implement hierarchy of computer printers
Implement diamond problem with real life example
Session 12: Exception Handling
Lecture
Exception Handling Introduction
Exception handling – throwing, catching, re-throwing an exception
Specifying exceptions etc.
Lab:
Implement exceptions and do proper management through your program
Implement Custom exception class
Session 13: Managing Console I/O Operations
Lecture
Introduction
C++ streams
C++ stream classes
Unformatted I/O operations
Formatted I/O operations
Managing output with manipulators
Lab:
Implement console I/O operations through your program.
Session 14: File Handling in C++
Lecture
Definition of file
File handling in C++
Doing read, write operation in files
Lab:
Assignments on files doing different operations
Session 15: Templates
Lecture
Introduction to Templates
Function Templates
Class Templates
Lab:
Assignments on templates
Session 16: STL and RTTI
Lecture
Introduction to C++ Standard Library
Introduction to RTTI (Run-Time Type Information) in C++
Lab:
Assignments on STL Library
