Overview

Embark on a comprehensive 10-hour C++ programming journey covering fundamental concepts to advanced topics. Begin with setting up the development environment and progress through core language features, including variables, functions, data types, and control structures. Explore arrays, vectors, and file I/O while building practical applications. Dive into object-oriented programming principles, learning about classes, inheritance, and polymorphism. Master essential C++ techniques such as function overloading, templates, and operator overloading. Gain hands-on experience with multi-file compilation, makefiles, and namespaces. By the end of this extensive tutorial series, develop a strong foundation in C++ programming and be prepared to tackle complex software development projects.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Installing g++
- C++ Concepts
- More C++ Concepts
- Using Directive and Declaration
- Variable Declaration and Initialization
- Using Variables with cout
- User Input with cin
- Conventions and Style Guides
- Intro to Functions
- Intro to Creating Custom Functions
- Pow Function
- Creating Custom Functions
- Creating Void Functions
- Intro to C++ Data Types
- Integral Data Types and Signed vs Unsigned
- Integral Data Types, sizeof, limit
- char Data Type
- Escape Sequences
- bool Data Type
- Floating Point Numbers
- Constant const, macro, and enum
- Numeric Functions
- String Class and C Strings
- get line for Strings
- String Modifier Methods
- String Operation Methods
- Literals
- Hex and Octal
- Operator Precedence and Associativity
- Reviewing Key Concepts
- Control Flow
- If Statement Practice
- Logical and Comparison Operators
- Switch Statement and Enum
- Intro to Loops
- For Loops How to Calculate Factorial
- While Loop and Factorial Calculator
- Do While Loop
- Break and Continue
- Conditional Operator
- Intro to Our App
- Creating a Menu
- Creating a Guessing Game
- Intro to Arrays and Vectors
- Working with Arrays
- Passing Arrays to Functions
- Fill Array from Input
- Using and Array to Keep Track of Guessing
- Intro to Vectors
- Creating a Vector
- Passing Vectors to Functions
- Refactor Guessing Game to Use Vectors
- STL Array
- STL Arrays in Practice
- Refactor Guessing Game to Use Templatized Array
- Array vs Vector vs STL Array
- Range Based for Loop
- Intro to IO Streams
- Writing to Files with ofstream
- Readings from Files with ifstream
- Saving High Scores to File
- Functions and Constructors
- Refactoring IO to Function Call and Testing
- Multidimensional Arrays and Nested Vectors
- Const Modifier
- Pass by Reference and Pass By Value
- Swap Function with Pass by Reference
- Intro to Function Overloading
- Function Overloading Examples
- Default Arguments
- Intro to Multifile Compilation
- Multifile Compilation
- Makefiles
- Creating a Simple Makefile
- Intro to Namespaces
- Creating a Namespace
- Intro to Function Templates
- Creating a Function Template
- Overloading Function Templates
- Intro to Object Oriented Programming
- Intro to Structs
- Creating a Struct
- Classes and Object
- Creating a Class
- Working with Objects
- Intro to Constructors
- Constructors and Destructors
- Encapsulation
- Getters and Setters
- Static Data Members
- Intro to Operator Overloading
- Operator Overloading == and +
- Overloading Insert and Extraction Operators
- Friend Functions and Operator Overloading
- Class Across Files
- Inheritance and Polymorphism
- Base Classes and Subclasses Inheritance
- Polymorphism
- Conclusion