University of LaVerne-Athens Campus
Department of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics
Winter 2004
Object Oriented Programming Using C++
Semester
Hours: 4
Pre-requisites: CMPS
301 – Programming Concepts
Requirement: Computer
Science and Computer Engineering, B.S.
Instructor: Nicholas Harkiolakis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Chair, Dept. of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics
Class
Sessions: Monday – Wednesday 11:30 – 14:00
Location: Main
Computer Lab
Course Site: Course Home Page
Office
Hours: Monday – Wednesday 9:00 – 11:00 and 14:00 – 15:00
e-mail: nhark@laverne.edu.gr
Message
phone: 210-6898850
Course Description
Object - oriented programming. Basic
concepts, operators, functions, development of inheritance. Polymorphisms and
their implementation via virtual functions, abstract base classes, and pure
virtual functions.
Teaching Goals
·
To introduce and
familiarize the students with object technology.
·
To achieve the mind
frame change from procedural programming to object-oriented programming.
·
To present the
advantages to software engineering from the use of object technology.
Learning Objectives
The students will be able to:
·
To understand a
typical C++ program development environment and be able to write computer
programs in C++.
·
To understand the
software engineering concepts of encapsulation and data hiding.
·
To understand how to
create, use, and destroy class objects.
·
To be able to create
and destroy objects dynamically.
·
To understand
operator overloading and inheritance.
Course Requirements
·
Class attendance and
participation
·
Weekly homework assignments
and tests
·
In class assignments
·
Course projects
Default Assumptions
1.
Unfinished lab activities will always be added to homework
2.
All homework and projects are due on the next scheduled Monday session
Textbook
Visual C++ .NET How to Program
Deitel, Prentice Hall, 2003
Weekly Schedule
Week I January
7, 2004
Introduction to .NET,
Visual Studio .NET and Visual C++.NET Programming
Objectives:
To understand the Microsoft .NET initiative
To introduce Managed Extensions for C++
To become familiar with the Visual Studio .NET IDE
To write simple Visual C++ .NET programs
To use input and output statements
To become familiar with primitive data types
To understand basic memory concepts
To use arithmetic operators
To understand the precedence of arithmetic operators
To write decision-making statements
To use relational and equality operators
Topics:
Introduction
Simple Program structure
Memory concepts
Arithmetic
Decision-making
Lab Activities:
Familiarization
with Visual Studio .NET environment
Simple GUI
development
Homework:
Exercises 3.3 to 3.16 due on January 12,
2004
Week II January
12, 2004
Control Statements: Part 1
Objectives:
To use the if and if…else selection statements to
choose among alternative actions
To use the while repetition statement to execute
statements in a program repeatedly
To understand counter-controlled repetition and
sentinel-controlled repetition
To use the increment, decrement and assignment
operators
Topics:
Algorithms
Pseudocode
if
selection statement
if…else selection statement
While repetition statement
Assignment operators
Increment and decrement operators
Lab Activities:
Simple
calculator simulator: Basic operations
Homework:
Exercises 4.1 to 4.16 due on January 19, 2004
Test:
Textbook Chapter 3 11:30-12:00 on January
14, 2004
Week III January
19, 2004
Control Statements: Part 2
Objectives:
To use the for and do…while repetition
statements to execute statements in a program repeatedly
To understand multiple selection with switch selection
statement
To use break and continue
program-control statements
Topics:
Essentials of counter-controlled repetition
Using the for statement
switch multiple selection statement
do…while repetition statement
break and continue statements
Logical operators
Lab Activities:
Number
display
Simple calculator simulator: Error control
Homework:
Exercises 5.4 to 5.10 due on January 26, 2004
Test:
Textbook Chapter 4 11:30-12:00 on January
21, 2004
Week IV January
26, 2004
Functions
Objectives:
To construct programs modularly from small pieces
called functions
To become familiar with the common math methods
available in the Framework Class Library
To create functions
To understand the mechanisms for passing data between
functions
To introduce simulation techniques that use random
number generation
To understand how the visibility of identifiers is
limited to specific regions of programs
To understand how to write and use functions that call
themselves
Topics:
Functions and methods in Managed Extensions for C++
Math class methods
Functions
Argument promotion
Namespaces in managed Extensions for C++
Value types and reference types
Pointers and references
Passing arguments
Random-number generation
Scope rules
Recursion
Recursion vs. Iteration
Function overloading
Lab Activities:
Clock
display simulator
Simple
calculator simulator: Statistics module
Homework:
Exercises 6.6 to 6.15 due on February 2,
2004
Test:
Textbook Chapter 5 11:30-12:00 on January
28, 2004
Week V February
2, 2004
Arrays
Objectives:
To become familiar with the array data structures
To understand how managed arrays store, sort and
search lists and tables of values
To understand how to declare and initialize a managed array
To be able to refer to individual elements of a
managed array
To understand basic sorting techniques
To be able to declare and manipulate multidimensional
managed arrays
Topics:
Arrays
Declaring and allocating arrays
Passing arrays to functions
Sorting arrays
Searching arrays
Multidimensional arrays
Lab Activities:
8 Queens
puzzle
Simple
calculator simulator: Statistics module continued
Homework:
Exercises 7.3 to 7.11 due on February 9, 2004
Test:
Textbook Chapter 6 11:30-12:00 on February
4, 2004
Week VI February
9, 2004
Object-based programming
Objectives:
To understand encapsulation and data hiding
To understand the concepts of data abstraction and
abstract data types
To create, use and destroy objects
To control access to data members and methods
To understand the use of the this pointer
To understand namespaces and assemblies
Topics:
Class scope
Controlling access to members
Constructors
Using overloaded construction
Composition
Using the this pointer
Garbage collection
static class members
const keyword
Data abstraction and information hiding
Software reusability
Namespaces and assemblies
Lab Activities:
e-mail
client-server simulation
Simple
calculator simulator: Geometry module
Homework:
Exercises 8.3 to 8.8 due on February 16, 2004
Test:
Textbook Chapter 7 11:30-12:00 on February
11, 2004
Week VII February
16, 2004
Object Oriented Programming: Inheritance
Objectives:
To understand inheritance and software reusability
To understand the concepts of base classes and derived
classes
To understand member access specifier protected
To understand the use of constructors and destructors in base and derived classes
To present a case study that demonstrates the
mechanics of inheritance
Topics:
Base classes, derived classes and protected
members
Relationship between base classes and derived classes
Constructors and destructors in derived classes
Software engineering with inheritance
Lab Activities:
Simple calculator
simulator: Geometry module continued
Homework:
Exercises 9.3 to 9.8 due on February 25, 2004
Test:
Textbook Chapter 8 11:30-12:00 on February
18, 2004
Week VIII February
25, 2004
Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
Objectives:
To understand the concept of polymorphism
To understand how polymorphism makes systems
extensible and maintainability
To understand the distinction between abstract classes and concrete classes
To learn how to create __sealed classes, interfaces
and delegates
Topics:
Derived-class-object to base-class-object conversion
Abstract classes
Delegates
Operator overloading
Lab Activities:
2D game development with real time graphics and sound
Homework:
Exercises 10.3 to 10.8 due on March 1, 2004
Optional challenge project: Souvlaki Taverna Simulation
Students
who complete the project will receive an additional 10% towards their final
grade. The deadline for this project is
13:00am on March 24, 2004
Test:
Textbook Chapter 9 11:30-12:00 on February
25, 2004
Week IX March
1, 2004
Exception Handling
Objectives:
To understand exceptions and error handling
To use try blocks to delemit code in which
exceptions may occur
To throw exceptions
To use catch blocks to specify exception
handlers
To use the __finally block to release resources
To create programmer-defined exceptions
Topics:
Exception handling overview, .NET exception hierarchy
__finally block
Exception properties
Programmer-defined exception classes
Lab Activities:
Database
simulation
2D Game
development continued
Homework:
Exercises 11.3 to 11.8 due on March 8, 2004
Test:
Textbook Chapter 10 11:30-12:00 on March
3, 2004
Week X March
8, 2004
Graphical User Interfaces Concepts
Objectives:
To understand the design principles of graphical user
interfaces
To create graphical user interfaces
To create and manipulate buttons, labels, lists, text
boxes and panels
To be able to use mouse and keyboard events
To be able to display list boxes and combo boxes
To be able to create menus, window tabs, and
multiple-document-interface (MDI) programs
To create custom controls
Topics:
Windows forms
Event-handling model
Control properties and layout
Mouse and keyboard event handling
Menus
MDI
Lab Activities:
Hangman
game: GUI design
Homework:
Exercises 12.3 to 12.7 due on March 15, 2004
Test:
Textbook Chapter 11 11:30-12:00 on March
10, 2004
Week XI March
15, 2004
Graphics and Multimedia
Objectives:
To understand graphics contexts and graphics objects
To manipulate colors and fonts
To use class Image to manipulate and display images
To use Windows Media Player and Microsoft Agent
Topics:
Graphics contexts and graphics objects
Color control
Font control
Drawing lines, rectangles and ovals
Drawing polygons and polylines
Introduction to multimedia
Loading, displaying and scaling images
Windows Media Player
Microsoft Agent
Lab Activities:
Hangman
game: Microsoft Agent enhancement
Homework:
Hangman game due on March 24, 2004
Week XII March
22, 2004
Files and Streams
Objectives:
To create, read, write and update files
To use classes File and Directory
To use the FileStream and BinaryFormatter classes to
read objects from, and write objects to, files
To become familiar with sequential-access and
random-access file processing
Topics:
Data hierarchy
Files and streams
Classes File and Directory
Creating a sequential-access file
Reading data from a sequential-access file
Random-access files
Lab Activities:
Practice
simple IO operations for sequential and random access files
Method of Evaluation
· Class Attendance and Participation: 10%
· Weekly Tests: 45%
· Weekly Homework Exercises: 30%
· Projects 15%
· Optional Challenge Project (for additional credits) 10%
Plagiarism
Policy
Students are
responsible for performing academic tasks in such a way that honesty in not in
question. Please refer to the Academic
Honesty Policy in the University Catalog for the full detailed policy on this
matter.
Attendance
Policy
Attendance is
Compulsory. Contact instructor for any
absence. Final student grade will be
reduced by 10% for every absence made above three. Course must be dropped if missing
more than five class sessions
Class
Participation
Students are
expected to follow the professor’s guidelines for working classroom
assignments.
Make-up
and late assignments
Students are expected
to manage their time appropriately so as to submit their assignments on time.
Late assignments will receive no credit. Exceptions to this rule will be
considered on an individual basis.
This
course may be modified, verbally or in writing, at any time during the term at
the discretion of the instructor or department
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