University Of Buea

CSC305 Course Outline

Faculty Name Faculty of SCIENCE
Department Name : COMPUTER SCIENCE
Course title Object-Oriented Programming in C++
Course Code CSC305
Department Code: CSC
Academic Year 2024/2025
Semester 1
Name of Instructor Roger Mawoh/ Benedict Mbungang
S/N Week Topic Activity
Course overview, syllabus, textbooks.; Designation of course delegate;
Project / Assignment details Recall: C++: programming environment,
functional programming, Data structures, control statements, functions and
recursion, pointer and the THIS pointer ; Dev C++ Environment (IDE)
Practical (Installation of software); OOP vs Procedural Programming; OO
1 1 Poblem solving. L
C++ As a Better C: C++ enhancement of C (Non-OOP); Declarations and
Definitions in C++, scope operator, inline functions, Default function
arguments, Function declaration and definition, reference operator,
2 1 new/delete, 2D-arrays, function overloading. L
C++ As a Better C: Funtion template, operator overloading, namespace,
standard c++ header files, using cout object, using cin object, std
3 2 namespace, bool type, constant, cast operator. L
4 2 Tutorial T
Deadline: Assignment of students to project groups (completed) OOP
Programming Concepts: Class, Inheritance, Polymorphism; Class
definition; Defining methods as inline functions, Defining dynamic
objects, Defining array of objects, Controlling access to members, friend
5 3 functions and friend classes, this pointer. L
6 3 Application. P
Initialising and Finalising Objects: Constructors:- Default constructor,
Constructor wit parameters, multiple constructors, initialising arrays of
objects, constructor initialisers; Destructors; Copy constructor; Static class
members; passing objects to functions as arguments, avoiding temporary
objects, Composition (classes as members of other classes), composition
7 4 and aggregation, Working with multiple files. L
8 4 Tutorial. T
5 Operator Overloading: operator overloading, limitations, overloading the + P
operator, overloading the assignment operator, copy sonstructor vs
assignment operator, overloading unary operators, overloading the []
operator, overloading the () operator, overloading post and pre increment
operators.
5 Application. T
Inheritance: reusability in object oriented programming, is-a relationship,
inheritance syntax, redefining members, overloading vs overriding, access
control, protected vs private members, public inheritance, private
9 6 inheritance. P
Inheritance: redefining access, special member functions and inheritance,
Constructors and inheritance, Destructors and inheritance, assignment
operator and inheritance, composition vs inheritance, multiple inheritance,
10 6 Virtual base classes. L
11 7 Application. P
12 7 CA (All) L
 Object Pointers: pointers to objects, linked list of objects, pointers and
inheritance, Polymorphism: Normal member functions access with
pointers, virtual member functions accessed with pointers, late binding,
13 8 Abstract classes, pure virtual classes, virtual destructors. P
14 8 Application. L
Templates: Introduction and function template, Overloading function
templates and class templates , Nontype parameters and default types for
class templates, Templates and inheritance , Templates and friends ,
15 9 Templates and static members. L
16 9 Application. L
Input/output Streams: classic Versus standard stream, Stream I/O classes
16 10 and objects, Stream manipulators, Stream format states. L
17 10 Application. P
Exceptions handling: Overview, When to use exception, Constructors,
destructors and exceptions, Exception and inheritance, Stack unwinding,
18 11 Standard library exception. L
19 11 Application. P
20 12 C++ Library: Standard library (STD), Standard template library (STL) L
Data structures and abstract data types: Self-referential classes, DMA and
data structures, Linked lists, stacks and queues, Trees. Test II (or
21 12 Presentation of Final Project I, if any) L
22 13 Tutorial/CA T
23 13 Revision (optional) / Slack for recovery T