C++ for C Programmers

A Course Introduction

• Course Prerequisites

• Course Objectives

• Course Delivery

• Course Practical

• Course Structure

An Overview of OO Programming & C++

• Review of OOP principles

• Behavior, state, identity, inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction

• History and evolution of C++

• Key features of C++

• C++ as a better and safer C, C++ vs. C, C++ in Real Time systems

UML Brief overview

• General overview on UML

• Class Diagram

• Sequence Diagram

The Class Approach

• Grouping of data and functionality

• Syntax of a class declaration

• Syntax of use

• Public and private

• Abstract Data Types

• Program structure

Providing Class Functionality

• Member functions

• Function overloading

• Default arguments

• Ambiguities

• Anonymous arguments

• Resolving scope conflicts

• The Scope resolution operator

• The this pointer

Object birth and death

• Life of an object

• Constructors

• operator new

• Death of an object

• Destructors

• operator delete

• Dynamic arrays

Efficiency, Integrity & Performance Issues

• Enumerations

• Const declarations

• Const member functions

• Const member data

• Inline function mechanism

• Reference variables

• Composite Classes

• An opportunity for reuse

• Embedded / Real Time considerations

Composite Classes

• An opportunity for reuse

• Scoping and initialization

• Order of construction

• Member Initialization lists

• Use of fundamental classes

Associative Classes

• Delegating class functionality

• Dynamic associations

• Custody and lifetime

• Constant associations

Operator Overloading

• Operator functions

• Unary operators

• Binary operators

• Global operators

• Member operators

• Subscript operators

• Input operators

• Output operators

• Guidelines

• Embedded / Real Time considerations

Class Properties

• Static data members

• Static member functions

• Nested types

• Forward declarations

• Friend classes

Templates and Container Classes

• Organizing collections of objects

• Template classes

• vector

• list

• Iterators

• Template functions

• Algorithms

• Using the Standard Library

• Embedded / Real Time considerations

Copying and Conversions

• The copy assignment operator

• Copy constructors

• Conversions to a class object

• Conversions from a class object

• Embedded / Real Time considerations

Inheritance

• Extension of existing classes

• Notation, syntax, terminology

• Protected members

• Scoping and initialization

• Multiple inheritance

• Abstract base classes

• Guidelines

Polymorphism

• Modified class behavior

• Virtual functions

• virtual destructors

• Late binding

• Inside the virtual function mechanism

• Pure virtual functions

• Use of pointers to base type

• Guidelines

• Real Time considerations

Embedded and Real Time C++ Considerations

• Comparing C and C++ performance, Performance analysis

• C++ code translated to C

• Inheritance in C

• The Embedded C++ Language Standard

• Program Size Comparisons

• Problems with Exceptions, RTTI, mutable

• Problems with Templates, Multiple Inheritance, Operator Overloading

• Compiling Embedded C++, Making Objects ROMable

• Encapsulating a ROMable class

• Placing objects at a specific address

• Interrupts and interrupt vectors in C++

• Combining C and C++ code

OOC (Object Oriented in C)

• Modularity and correct API Definition

• Encapsulation and Information hiding

• Inheritance