ECE244 — Programming Fundamentals

Course focuses on object-oriented programming in C++. Follows APS105 — Computer Fundamentals in C. Followed by ECE297 — Software Design and Communication and ECE345 — Algorithms and Data Structures.

We used the Problem Solving with C++ book by Walter Savitch. The textbook (IMO) is fairly useless outside of a passing reference. Prof Emara also wrote a book with exercise problems.

Concepts covered

Content that is more or less the same as APS105 is omitted here.

• UNIX
• Command line
  • Valgrind
• Reference
• Code organisation (C) and compilation
  • Header file
  • Make (not testable)
• Preprocessor (#include, #ifndef, #define)
• Stream
  • Standard IO (<iostream>)
  • File IO
  • Stringstream (<sstream>)
• Buffer
• Dynamic memory allocation
• Object-oriented programming
  • Access modifier (public, private)
  • Encapsulation
  • Inheritance
    • Virtual function
    • Polymorphism
• Method
  • Constructor
    • Copy constructor
    • Function overloading
  • Destructor
  • Getter and setter
  • Operator overloading
    • Friends
  • Rule of three
• Qualifiers and specifiers
  • const
  • Storage-class specifier (static)
• Data structure
  • Cascade delete
  • Linked list
    • Stack
    • Queue
  • Trees
    • Binary tree
    • Binary search tree
  • Hash table
    • Hash function
    • Hash collision
• Recursion
  • Backtracking
  • Recurrence relation
• Algorithm
• Time complexity

Submission

To compile a C++ file, we can execute:

1. g++ -std=c++11 -g –Wall hello.cpp –o hello
2. ./hello

Or alternatively execute make.

We can:

• Check against test cases with: ~ece244i/public/exercise 3 parser.
• Submit with: ~ece244i/public/submit 3 after copying all files into one directory.

Observations

probably a good idea to mentally check scoping/access when doing practice problems (ESPECIALLY WITH DESTRUCTORS). i also seem to forget to use getters/setters in my code

array of pointers → double pointers