Contents

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction, Classes and Data Abstraction
  • History: The Rise and Decline of Structured Programming
    • The Problem - Complexity
  • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
    • Encapsulation
    • Inheritance
    • Polymorphism
    • Advantages of OOP
    • OOP Terminology
    • Other Object-Oriented Languages
  • Structure Definitions
  • Accessing Structure Members
  • Implementing a User-Defined Type Time with a struct
  • Implementing a Time Abstract Data Type with a class
  • Class Scope and Accessing Class Members
  • Separating Interface from Implementation
  • Controlling Access to Members
  • Access Functions and Utility Functions
  • Initializing Class Objects: Constructors
  • Using Default Arguments with Constructors
  • Destructors
  • When Constructors and Destructors Are Called
  • Using Set and Get Functions
  • Default Memberwise Assignment
  • Software Reusability
  
  
• Classes Part II
  • const (Constant) Objects and const Member Functions
  • Composition: Objects as Members of Classes
  • friend Functions and friend Classes
  • Using the this Pointer
  • Dynamic Memory Management with Operators new and delete
  • static Class Members
  • Data Abstraction and Information Hiding
    • Example: Array Abstract Data Type
    • Example: String Abstract Data Type
    • Example: Queue Abstract Data Type
  • Container Classes and Iterators
  • Proxy Classes
  
  
• Operator Overloading
  • Introduction
  • Fundamentals of Operator Overloading
  • Restrictions on Operator Overloading
  • Operator Functions As Class Members Vs. As Friend Functions
  • Overloading Stream-Insertion and Stream-Extraction Operators
  • Overloading Unary Operators
  • Overloading Binary Operators
  • Case Study: Array class
  • Converting between Types
  • Case Study: A String Class
  • Overloading ++ and -
  • Case Study: A Date Class
  • Standard Library Classes string and vector
  
  
• Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
  • Introduction
  • Base Classes and Derived Classes
  • protected Members
  • Relationship between Base Classes and Derived Classes
    • Creating a Circle class without using inheritance
    • Point/Circle Hierarchy using Inheritance
    • Point/Circle Hierarchy using protected data
    • Point/Circle Hierarchy using private data
  • Case Study: Three-Level Inheritance Hierarchy
  • Constructors and Destructors in Derived Classes
  • "Uses A" and "Knows A" Relationships
  • public, protected and private Inheritance
  • Software Engineering with Inheritance
  
  
• Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
  • Introduction
  • Relationships Among Objects in an Inheritance Hierarchy
    • Invoking Base-Class Functions from Derived-Class Objects
    • Aiming Derived-Class Pointers at Base-Class Objects
    • Derived-Class Member-Function Calls via Base-Class Pointers
    • Virtual Functions
  • Polymorphism Examples
  • Type Fields and switch Structures
  • Abstract Classes
  • Case Study: Inheriting Interface and Implementation
  • Polymorphism, Virtual Functions and Dynamic Binding "Under the Hood"
  • Virtual Destructors
  • Case Study: Payroll System Using Polymorphism
  
  
• Exception Handling
  • Introduction
  • Exception-Handling Overview
  • Other Error-Handling Techniques
  • Simple Exception-Handling Example: Divide by Zero
  • Rethrowing an Exception