Object Oriented Programming

Logistics for course offered in Computer Science and IT Department University of Balochistan

Credit Hours: 3+1

Prerequisites: Programming Fundamentals

Course Content:

• Introduction to object oriented design
• History and advantages of object oriented design
• Introduction to object oriented programming concepts
  • classes
  • objects
  • access modifiers
  • constructors
  • destructors
  • data encapsulation
  • const vs non-const functions
  • static data members & functions
  • arrays as class member data
  • arrays of objects
• Reference vs pointer
• Function overloading
• Operator overloading
• Inheritance
  • function overriding
  • virtual functions
  • multiple inheritance
• Identification of classes and their relationships
• Polymorphism
• Abstract classes and interfaces
• Function & class templates
• Standard template library
• Object streams
• Data and object serialization using object streams
• Exception handling

Course Assessment:

Mid term exams: 30 marks
Terminal exams: 40 marks
Quizes: 15 marks
Assignments: 15 marks

Reference Materials:

1. Starting Out with C++ from Control Structures to Objects, 9th Edition, Tony Gaddis.
2. C++ How to Program, 10th Edition, Deitel & Deitel.
3. Object Oriented Programming in C++, 3rd Edition by Robert Lafore.
4. Java: How to Program, 9th Edition by Paul Deitel.
5. Beginning Java 2, 7th Edition by Ivor Horton.
6. An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming with Java, 5th Edition by C. Thomas Wu.

Online Resources:

1. https://gcc.gnu.org/
2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2B%2B
3. http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/
4. https://www.coursera.org/learn/object-oriented-java

Live code demo

1. A quick game development live coding demo session delivered by Ahsanullah can be found here

Note: This repository contains example programs, see source folder in the repo. Students compiling with Turbo C++ compiler have to omit the line using namespace std;.