syllabus/cplusplus.md

UNIT I: Language Fundamentals

• Adv of OOP: The object-oriented approach and characteristics of object-oriented languages (Object, Classes, Inheritance, Reusability, Polymorphism)
• Overview of C++:
  • History of C++
  • Data types,
  • Operators and Expressions
  • Control structures: if, if-else, nested if-else, while(), do-while(), for(;;), break, continue, switch, goto
  • Strings, Storage classes

UNIT II: Structures, Functions & Arrays

• Structures:
  • Simple structure specification
  • Defining structure variables, Accessing structure members
  • Enumeration data type
• Functions:
  • Function declaration, Calling a function, Function definition
  • Passing arguments: by value, by reference, passing constants and struct variables
  • Overloaded functions, Inline functions, Default arguments
  • Return statements, Returning by reference
• Arrays:
  • Defining arrays, Array elements, Initializing arrays, Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Passing arrays to functions

UNIT III: Object Classes and Inheritance

• Object and Class:
  • Using classes, Constructors, Destructors
  • Object as function arguments
  • Struct vs. classes, Arrays as class members
  • Operator overloading
• Inheritance:
  • Types of inheritance, Derived and Base classes
  • Access specifiers: protected
  • Overriding member functions

UNIT IV: Pointers

• Pointers:
  • Pointer variables, & and * operators
  • Pointer to void, Pointers and arrays, Pointers and functions, Pointers and strings
  • Memory management: new and delete
  • Pointer to objects, Pointer to pointer

UNIT V: Virtual Functions, Files & Streams

• Virtual Functions:
  • Virtual functions, Virtual member functions, Accessing with pointers, Late binding
  • Pure virtual functions, Friend functions, Friend classes, Static functions, this pointer
• Templates
• Files and Streams:
  • C++ streams, Stream classes, String I/O, Char I/O, Object I/O
  • I/O with multiple objects, File pointers, Disk operations