Lecture #2 - Survey of the C++ Language

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Office Hours: Instructor & TAs

Content:

1. Syllabus
2. Walk through code directory - the good news! - the bad news!
3. Starting Friday, January 16, I will hold help sessions from 9:00am until 11:45am each Friday in CST 4-201.
   Starting Friday, January 23, the TA's will also hold "surviving OOD help sessions each Friday from 4:00pm for an hour or two, also in CST 4-201.
4. Project #1
   Dissecting the Project #1 statement - What is hard? What is easy? Suggestions.
   Tokenizer, SemiExpression, Parser
   Code Analyzer Architecture
   Dissecting the prototype code - Goals, Structure, design trade-offs, C++ specific details.

5. Survey of C++ Language

   • classes and class relationships - high level view
     
   • Object relationships
     
   • class relationships - more details
     
   • class layout
     
   • Compilation, Computation, and Memory models
     
   • Survey of Language features:
     
6. C++ Survival Guide
   A quick tour of syntax for pointers, references, classes, strings, streams, and vectors.
7. basic C++ code demos
   Shows how to implement and use simple classes, derived classes, and templatized classes.
8. first look at STL notes
   The Standard Template Library (STL) provides a set of useful containers, iterators, and algorithms. You can use the containers without knowing too much about how templates work. We will get to that soon.
9. basic STL code demos
   Shows how easy it is to use vectors, lists, sets, and maps.
10. Code - Relationships
    
11. Software Design