COSC-502 Programming Concepts and Tools

COSC-502 Programming Concepts and Tools

Faculty:

Maloof, Marcus

Shields, Thomas

Singh, Lisa

Velauthapillai, Mahendran

This class is intended for graduate students with a serious interest in learning C++ programming. Topics include: basic data types; the C++ string class; variables, constants, and their declarations; input/output (cin/cout), arithmetic, and assignment operators; conditional and repetition control structures; basic file operations; programmer-defined functions; value and reference parameters; scoping rules; name precedence; function overloading; template functions; elementary software engineering principles; the Standard Template Library (STL); the vector class; elementary searching and sorting; abstract data types; stacks; programmer-defined classes; operator overloading; pointers; self-referential classes; dynamic object creation and destruction; linked lists; recursion; abstract base classes; virtual functions; polymorphism; template classes; and exception handling. Prerequisites: none.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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