COMP345 - fall 2020

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	online	Joey Paquet	paquet@encs.concordia.ca
instructor's office hours	--W----	10:00-12:00	online	Joey Paquet

Lecture Schedule

wk	date	event	topics	lecture material (tentative)	laboratory material (tentative)
week 1	sep 8, sep 10	project description handout	introduction to the course and project introduction to C++	Slide set 0
week 2	sep 15, sep 17	assignment 1 handout team lists due - sept 18	program organization compilation units, namespaces data types, type coercion streams pointers	Slide set 1 Slide set 2 Slide set 3	lab1 lab2
week 3	sep 22, sep 24		structures, classes inheritance constructors, destructors const, inline, static friends	Slide set 4	lab3 lab4
week 4	sep 29, oct 1
week 5	oct 6, oct 8	due date for assignment 1 (oct 9) lab demonstrations (oct 12-13) results	C/C++ arrays and dynamic arrays, containers	Slide set 5	lab5
week 6	oct 13, oct 15	assignment 2 handout	MVC architecture observer pattern	Slide set 6	lab6
week 7	oct 20, oct 22		polymorphism virtual functions abstract classes slicing problem, value and reference semantics virtual function tables diamond problem, virtual inheritance	Slide set 7	lab7
week 8	oct 27, oct 29	midterm examination (oct 27) coverage results
week 9	nov 3, nov 5	due date for assignment 2 (nov 6) results assignment 3 handout	design patterns in C++	Slide set 8	lab8
week 10	nov 10, nov 12	Deadline for DISC withdrawal (nov 9)	operator overloading	Slide set 9	lab9
week 11	nov 17, nov 19	handout of practice run questions for the programming test	exception handling	Slide set 10	lab 10
week 12	nov 24, nov 26	due date for assignment 3 (nov 27) results final programming test (nov 25 during labs) Wed Nov 25th 17:45-19:35 Wed Nov 25th 20:30-22:20 results	templates metaprogramming	Slide set 11	lab 11
week 13	dec 1 - dec 3		Review	Slide set 12
exam week	dec 9 - dec 23	final written examination (TBD) results

Course Material and Resources

• Course outline
• teams
• ENCS Electronic Student Submission System
• ENCS Lectures and Labs Schedules
• 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++"