C++ for non-C Programmers

Background to C++
Introduction to C++ Programming
Types and Operators:

• C base types
• Precedence & associativity

Control Flow:

• Logical expressions and operations
• Decision Making
• Loops

Functions:

• The Function as a logical program unit
• How parameters are passed

Arrays and Pointers:

• Arrays as circular buffers
• Relationship between pointers & arrays

Introduction to Object Oriented (OO) Principles:

• Key characteristics of OO development
• OO techniques and the real-time software development process

Introduction to Classes:

• Classes & class instances
• Methods
• Constructors & destructors

More on Classes:

• Inlining member functions
• Const member functions
• Static class members and functions

Inheritance:

• Building class hierarchies
• Dynamic binding for class methods, virtual functions
• Polymorphism

Multiple inheritance(MI):

• MI and interfaces

Functions and Operators:

• Class defined conversions
• Overloading and function selection
• Overloading operators

Exception Handling:

• What are exceptions?
• Throwing and catching an exception

Templates:

• Introduce parameterised types and functions
• Function and class templates

The Standard Library:

• Introducing the Standard Template Library

Software Structuring:

• Structuring large scale software systems
• Namespaces

Real-Time Specifics:

• Low level facilities of C++ including:
• Accessing hardware
• Manipulating information at the bit level
• Polling
• Interrupts

Portability Considerations:

• Language features affecting portability;
• Non-standard C++ language features;

Concurrency:

• Concurrency
• Sharing resources in multi-tasking system
• Synchronizing tasks
• Transferring data between tasks.