COMP345 - fall 2017

Course Description

COMP 345 - Advanced Program Design with C++ (4 credits)

Prerequisite: COMP352 previously or concurrently. Introduction to C++. I/O with stream classes. Pointers and their uses. TheStandard Template Library (STL): containers, algorithms, iterators, adaptors, function objects. Class design: constructors, destructors, operator overloading, inheritance, virtual functions, exception handling, memory management. Advanced topics: libraries, locales, STL conventions, concurrency, template metaprogramming. Applications of C++: systems, engineering, games programming. Project. Lectures: three hours per week. Laboratory: two hours per week.

Course Schedule and Contacts

component	day	time	location	instructor	e-mail address	web
lecture D	-T-J---	13:15-14:30	H-520	Paquet, Joey	paquet@encs.concordia.ca
office hours D	--W----	10:00-12:00	EV-3-221	Paquet, Joey

Lecture Schedule

wk	date	event	topics	lecture material (tentative)	laboratory material (tentative)
week 1	sep 5, sep 7	project description handout	introduction to the course and project introduction to C++	Slide set 0
week 2	sep 12, sep 14		program organization compilation units, namespaces data types, type coercion streams pointers	Slide set 1 Slide set 2 Slide set 3	Code for slide set 1 MFC serialization
week 3	sep 19, sep 21		structures, classes inheritance constructors, destructors const, inline, static friends	Slide set 4	Code for slide set 4
week 4	sep 26, sep 28
week 5	oct 3, oct 5		arrays, dynamic arrays	Slide set 5	Code for slide set 5
week 6	oct 10, oct 12		MVC architecture observer pattern	Slide set 6	Observer pattern
week 7	oct 17, oct 19	[oct 19] midterm examination (to be confirmed)
week 8	oct 24, oct 26		polymorphism virtual functions abstract classes slicing problem, value and reference semantics virtual function tables diamond problem, virtual inheritance	Slide set 7	Abstract classes Polymorphism Virtual Inheritance Private Inheritance
week 9	oct 31, nov 2	[nov 6] Deadline for withdrawal	design patterns in C++	Slide set 8	Code for slide set 8
week 10	nov 7, nov 9		operator overloading	Slide set 9	Operator Overloading
week 11	nov 14, nov 16		exception handling	Slide set 10	Exception Handling
week 12	nov 21, nov 23		templates metaprogramming	Slide set 11	Templates
week 13	nov 28, nov 30	programming test (to be confirmed)
exam week	dec 6 - dec 20	final examination : no official final examination

Course Material and Resources

• Course outline
• teams
• Source code of all program examples in Walter Savitch's "Absolute C++"
• Source code of all program examples in Daniel Liang's "Introduction to Programming with C++"

Code used in the lecture slides

• Code from slide set 1
• MFC serialization
• Abstract classes
• Polymorphism
• Observer pattern
• Design patterns
• Virtual Inheritance
• Private Inheritance
• Operator Overloading
• Exception Handling
• Templates
• design patterns implemented in C++ (1)
• design patterns implemented in C++ (2)