IT217 - Programming in C++ II

ITT - IT217
Programming in C++ II
December 2008

Notes and Assignments:

Week 1 - Tuesday, December 2, 2008: Welcome to the first day of class.; We'll do introductions, pass out the syllabus, take a quick assesment quiz (0 points), review some basic programming topics, pick teams for group project and then start on the course material.; Unit 1 - Detailed Study of Classes; Unit 1 - Homework Assignment; Class Project; Unit 1 - Lab; Review Links:; C++; Control Statements; hello world program; if/then; input/output; Loops; switch; New Topic Links (for further understanding):; Abstract data type; Class; Class Diagram; Dynamic memory allocation; Friend Class; Pointers; Prototype-based Programming; Proxy Pattern; Scope Resolution Operator; Standard Template Library; Unified Modeling Language (UML); Vector (STL); Other Resources:; C++ Reference; Download Visual C++ Express; Google: "C++ tutorial"; Google: “Visual C++ Tutorial”; ITT Virtual Library; Visual C++ Developer Center; Youtube: "C++ tutorial"; Youtube: “Visual C++ Tutorial”; C++ Class Tutorial; C++ Pointer Tutorial

Week 2 - Tuesday, December 9, 2008

We'll start with a short quiz to review topics from last week. We'll then cover the course material, work on the lab and homework. If time permits we'll start on the term project and work on tutorials online.

Unit 2 - Operator Overloading

Unit 2 - Homework Assignment

Unit 2 - Lab

Wiki links

Operator Overloading

Operators and Operator Overloading

Polymorphism

Polymorphism - Link 2

Objects

Increment / Decrement

Other Useful Links

C++ Tutorial - Operator Overloading

Subroutine

C++ Standard Library Reference

We'll start with another quiz next week to review topics covered up to this point.

Week 3 - Tuesday, December 16, 2008

In order to save on wasted papger, students will print their own Lab and Homework Assignments in class, I will provide the hard copies of the quizes.

Parts 1 and 2 of the course project are due at the beginning of class.

Homework 2 is due at the beginning of class.

After collecting the course project work and homework, we'll start with a quiz to review the topics we've learned thus far.

Unit 3 - Polymorphism in OOP

Unit 3 - Homework Assignment

Unit 3 - Lab

Links for further understanding

Abstract Data Type

Base Class/Superclass

Data Type

Derived Class/Subclass

size_t

Having issues with the course so far? Have you tried going through the following tutorials?

C++ Class Tutorial

C++ Pointer Tutorial

The following are additional problems/tutorials I gave to my IT116 students, try doing them in C++ and see how far you can get before the end of class.

You can turn in as much as you get done at the beginning of next class for extra credit.

Write code that sums all integers from 1 to 1000
Write code that sums all even integers from 100 to 2000
Write code that will sum all integers between two user inputted integers
Write code that outputs the first 100 prime numbers
Write code that initializes some basic data and then casting between the following datatypes: Byte, Double, Integer, Long, Single, and String.
What has higher precidence, a variable name that is more global or more local to a loop? Write some code that proves your answer.
Use google to find 5 useful webpages that can help you through out your future vb.net (visual C++ for this course) programming career (single tutorials do not work, a successful reference would be something like: http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/vbscript/quickref/vbscript_list.html for VB).
Do the following tutorials from "Hello World" through "Noughts and Crosses" VB Tutorials (See if you can do any of these in Visual C++, note some will be easy and some will be hard)

Extra Credit Assignment - Inheritance/Polymorphism

Create a simple C++ program (one cpp file) that has several classes in it. The classes should be simple (such as containing a few variables/attributes/methods). Demonstrate class constutors, copy constructors, inheritance from a base class (both direct and indirect), single inheritance and multiple inheritance. Do an example of a virtual function. Also demonstrate polymorphism. The more you show me you know and learned the more extra credit you'll get.

Document all code so that it is clear and easy to understand. See my C++ Example Constructor file I created (Note: You'll also want to look at the wikipedia links I linked to earlier). You can start with this and modify it to do everything else that is required for this extra credit.

Saturday, December 20th

A couple of people have asked me about "game programming." To help those who are interested, I did a little research on my own to try to help give a edge to those who are interested in learning.

First of all, you can program a game in many different languages, the first question you should ask yourself is, "What kind of game do I want to program?" Once you answer this question, then you'll have a better idea of the platform you wish to use to develop it.

Simple games can be programmed to run as command line games, such as running through DOS. Now if you want your game to be more exciting (and to advance beyond the 70s/80s), then you'll probably want to add some graphs in up the user interactivity. So now you have a couple different options.

If you are programming for a internet game to be viewed through a browser then you'll want to think about either using Flash with Active Scripting or perhaps a Java Applet.

If you are looking to do something like a windows based program/Xbox program then you might want to consider the following:

Download and install C# 2005 Express

Next, download and install C# Service Pack 1, make sure you read the descriptions so you download the right one...

Next, download and install XNA Game Studio Express 1.0, used for creating games on Windows Based PCs and Xbox 360 console

The next major step is going through some of XNA tutorials

Last, when you make lots of money... remember me... :)

Week 4 - Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Part 3 of the course project is due at the beginning of class.

To help students get back into the swing of things, there will be no quiz today. We will continue with weekly quizes next week.

Unit 4 - Templates and Other Advanced Topices

Unit 4 - Lab

Unit 4 - Homework Assignment

Please read through the following links prior to doing the lab, it'll help you:

C++ Template Tutorial

C++ Template Tutorial 2

C++ Preprocessor Directives

Week 5 - Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

We used last week to play catch up. This week we will start with a quiz, covering topics through week 3. We will then go over the material for weeks 4 and 5. Project parts for week 4 and 5 will be due at the beginning of next week. Homework for weeks 4 and 5 will be due at the beginning of next week. Both labs for week 4 and 5 will also be due at the beginning of next week.

All homework and labs through week 3 are due at the beginning of class today.

Unit 4 - Templates and Other Advanced Topices

Unit 5 - File Processing

Unit 4 - Lab

Unit 5 - Lab

Unit 4 - Homework Assignment

Unit 5 - Homework Assignment

Review the links under week 4 for further understanding of week 4 material.

Review the following links for further understanding of week 5 material:

C++ Input and Output with Files

C++ File IO

Practice your file reading and writing skills with the following easy task (this is due by the end of class):

1) Open a files and write the numbers 1 through 100 separated by spaces. Save that file and close your connection.

2) Open the file you wrote to and read each number and add it to a running total. Output this total to the screen. If you get 5050, your program worked properly.

Reminder, the Midterm is next week.

Week 6 - Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Part 4 and 5 of the course project is due at the beginning of class.

We will not have homework this week, to allow everyone to catch up on any missing assignments.

Unit 6 - Class string and String Stream Processing - ITT Lab for reference only.

Unit 6 - Lab - ITT Lab for reference only.

The lab for credit will be given during class.

Mid Term has been pushed back to next week as discussed last class.

Today we'll continue to review topics from the previous classes. We will also go over basic string initialization and functions associated with strings. We'll reverse strings, copy strings, work on getting strings from input, etc. All homeworks through Week 6 are due next week.

Week 7 - Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

All makeup work homework, assignment, labs, etc are do by the beginning of class. Any late assignments will receive 0 points.

Midterm Today.

Unit 7 - Searching, Sorting, and Data Structures - Read on your own

Unit 7 - Lab - Read on your own

The class lab will be given during class.

Unit 7 - Homework Assignment

Topics Covered Today:

Big O notation for analyzing efficiency

Dynamic memory allocation

Linked lists

Stacks

Queues

Trees

Week 8 - Tuesday February 3rd, 2009

Part 7 of the course project is due at the beginning of class.

Unit 8 - Bits, Characters, C-Strings and structs - Read on your own

Unit 8 - Lab - Read on your own

Unit 8 - Homework Assignment

Topics Covered Today:

C++ Bitwise and Shift Operators

C++ Struct

C++ typedef

C++ Pointers and Dynamic Allocation

C++ Dynamic Allocation of Memory for Stack

Week 9 - Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Part 8 of the course project is due at the beginning of class.

Unit 9 - Standard Template Library - Read on your own

Unit 9 - Lab - Read on your own

Today we'll talk about palindromes and other concepts. Today we'll focus on programming various small programs to further our understanding of C++ and object oriented programming.

Week 10 - Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Part 9 of the course project is due at the beginning of class.

Unit 10 - Web Programming - Read on your own

Unit 10 - Lab - Read on your own

Topics of Focus:

Connection Strings for Databases

CSS Tutorial

HTML Tutorial