Beginning C++ Programming - From Beginner to Beyond

• About the Course
• Why Learn C++?
• Modern C++ and the C++ Standard
• How does all this work?
• FAQ -- Please Read!

• Installation and Setup Overview
• Installing the C++ Compiler on Windows
• Installing CodeLite on Windows
• Configuring CodeLite on Windows
• Installing the C++ Compiler on Mac OSX
• Installing CodeLite on Mac OSX
• Configuring CodeLite on Mac OSX
• Using the Command-Line interface
• Installing CodeLite on Ubuntu Linux
• Configuring CodeLite on Ubuntu Linux
• Creating a Default CodeLite Project Template (All Versions)
• Using the Command-Line Interface on Windows
• Using the Command-Line Interface on Mac OSX
• Using the Command-Line Interface on Linux (Ubuntu)
• Using a Web-based C++ Compiler
• Using the Included Source Code Course Resources

• Curriculum Overview
• Overview of the Section Challenge Exercises
• Overview of the Section Quizzes

• Section Overview
• An Overview of the CodeLite Interface
• Writing our first program
• Building our first Program
• What are Compiler Errors?
• What are Compiler Warnings?
• What are Linker Errors?
• What are Runtime Errors?
• What are Logic Errors?
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution
• Section 4 Quiz

• Section Overview
• Overview of the Structure of a C++ Program
• #include Preprocessor Directive
• Comments
• The main() function
• Namespaces
• Basic Input and Output (I/O) using cin and cout
• Using cout and the insertion operator to say Hi to Frank
• Using cout and the insertion operator
• Using cin and the extraction operator
• Section 5 Quiz

• Section Overview
• What is a variable?
• Declaring and Initializing Variables
• Declaring and Initializing Variables
• Global Variables
• C++ Built-in Primitive Types
• What is the Size of a Variable (sizeof)
• What is a Constant?
• Declaring and Using Constants
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution
• Section 06 Quiz

• Section Overview
• What is an Array?
• Declaring and Initializing Arrays
• Accessing and Modifying Array Elements
• Declaring, Initializing and Accessing an array
• Multidimensional Arrays
• Declaring and Initializing Vectors
• Accessing and Modifying Vector Elements
• Declaring, Initializing and Accessing Vectors
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution
• Section 07 Quiz

• Section Overview
• Expressions and Statements
• Using Operators
• The Assignment Operator
• Arithmetic Operators
• Using the Assignment Operator
• Using the Arithmetic Operators
• Increment and Decrement Operators
• Mixed Expressions and Conversions
• Testing for Equality
• Relational Operators
• Logical Operators
• Compound Assignment Operators
• Operator Precedence
• Logical Operators and Operator Precedence - Can you work?
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution
• Section 08 Quiz

• Section Overview
• if Statement
• If Statement - Can you Drive?
• if else Statement
• If-Else Statement - Can you Drive?
• Nested if Statements
• Nested If Statements - Can you Drive?
• switch-case Statement
• Switch Statement - Day of the Week
• Conditional Operator
• Looping
• for Loop
• For loop - Sum of Odd integers
• range-based for Loop
• Using the range-based for loop
• while Loop
• While loop exercise
• do while Loop
• Continue and Break
• Infinite Loops
• Nested Loops
• Nested Loops - Sum of the Product of all Pairs of Vector 
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution Part 1
• Section Challenge - Solution Part 2
• Section 09 Quiz

• Section Overview
• Character Functions
• C-Style Strings
• Working with C-Strings
• Using C-style Strings
• C++ Strings
• Working with C++ Strings
• Using C++ Strings - Exercise 1
• Using C++ Strings - Exercise 2
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution
• Section 10 Quiz
• Challenge Assignment - Letter Pyramid

• Section Overview
• What is a Function?
• Using Functions from the cmath Library
• Function Definition
• Function Prototypes
• Function Parameters and the return Statement
• Functions and Prototypes - Converting Temperatures
• Default Argument Values
• Using Default Argument Values - Grocery List
• Overloading Functions
• Overloading Functions - Calculating Area
• Passing Arrays to Functions
• Passing Arrays to Functions - Print a Guest List
• Pass by Reference
• Using Pass by Reference - Print a Guest List
• Scope Rules
• How do Function Calls Work?
• inline Functions
• Recursive Functions
• Implementing a Recursive Function - Save a Penny
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge-Solution
• Section 11 Quiz

• Section Overview
• What is a Pointer?
• Declaring Pointers
• Accessing the Pointer Address and Storing Address in a Pointer
• Dereferencing a Pointer
• Dynamic Memory Allocation
• The Relationship Between Arrays and Pointers
• Pointer Arithmetic
• Const and Pointers
• Passing Pointers to Functions
• Returning a Pointer from a Function
• Potential Pointer Pitfalls
• What is a Reference?
• L-values and R-values
• Using the CodeLite IDE Debugger
• Section Recap
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution
• Section 12 Quiz

• Section Overview
• What is Object-Oriented Programming?
• What are Classes and Objects?
• Declaring a Class and Creating Objects
• Accessing Class Members
• Creating and Accessing Objects
• public and private
• Implementing Member Methods
• Adding public methods that access private class attributes
• Add more public methods to an existing class
• Constructors and Destructors
• The Default Constructor
• Add a Default Constructor to an Existing Class
• Overloading Constructors
• Add an Overloaded Constructor to an Existing Class
• Constructor Initialization lists
• Delegating Constructors
• Constructor Parameters and Default Values
• Copy Constructor
• Add a Copy Constructor to an Existing Class
• Shallow Copying with the Copy Constructor
• Deep Copying with the Copy Constructor
• Move Constructors
• The 'this' Pointer
• Using const with Classes
• Static Class Members
• Structs vs Classes
• Friends of a class
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution
• Section 13 Quiz

• Section Overview
• What is Operator Overloading?
• Overloading the Assignment Operator (copy)
• Overloading the Assignment Operator (move)
• Overloading Operators as Member Functions
• Operator Overloading as Member Functions
• Overloading Operators as Global Functions
• Operator Overloading as Non-member Functions
• Overloading the Stream Insertion and Extraction Operators
• Operator Overloading the Stream Insertion Operator
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution 1
• Section Challenge - Solution 2
• Section 14 Quiz

• Section Overview
• What is Inheritance?
• Terminology and Notation
• Inheritance vs. Composition
• Deriving Classes from Existing Classes
• Protected Members and Class Access
• Constructors and Destructors
• Passing Arguments to Base Class Constructors
• Copy/Move Constructors and Operator = with Derived Classes
• Redefining Base Class Methods
• Multiple Inheritance
• The Updated Accounts Example
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution
• Section 15 Quiz

• Section Overview
• What is Polymorphism?
• Using a Base Class Pointer
• Virtual Functions
• Virtual Destructors
• Using the Override Specifier
• Using the Final Specifier
• Using Base Class References
• Pure Virtual Functions and Abstract Classes
• Abstract Classes as Interfaces
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution Part 1
• Section Challenge - Solution Part 2
• Section Challenge - Final Solution
• Section 16 Quiz

• Section Overview
• Some Issues with Raw Pointers
• What is a Smart Pointer? Ownership and RAII
• Unique Pointers
• Shared Pointers
• Weak Pointers
• Custom Deleters
• Section Challenge 1
• Section Challenge 1 - Solution
• Section 17 Quiz

• Section Overview
• Basic Concepts and a Simple Example: Dividing by Zero
• Throwing an Exception from a Function
• Handling Multiple Exceptions
• Stack Unwinding and How it Works
• Creating User-Defined Exception Classes
• Class Level Exceptions
• The C++ std::exception Class Hierarchy
• Section Challenge
• Section Challenge - Solution
• Section 18 Quiz

• Section Overview
• Files, Streams and I/O
• Stream Manipulators
• Stream Manipulators - boolean
• Stream Manipulators - integers
• Stream Manipulators - floating point
• Stream Manipulators - align and fill
• Section Challenge 1
• Section Challenge 1 - Solution
• Reading from a Text File
• Reading from a Text File - Live Demo - Part 1
• Reading from a Text File - Live Demo - Part 2
• Reading a text file
• Section Challenge 2
• Section Challenge 2 - Solution
• Section Challenge 3
• Section Challenge 3 - Solution
• Writing to a Text File
• Writing to a Text File - Live Demo
• Section Challenge 4
• Section Challenge 4 - Solution
• Using String Streams
• File locations with some Popular IDEs
• Section 19 Quiz

• Section Overview
• What is the STL?
• Generic Programming with Macros
• Generic Programming with Function Templates
• Generic Programming with Class Templates
• Creating a Generic Array Template Class
• Introduction to STL Containers
• Introduction to STL Iterators
• Introduction to Iterators - Demo
• Introduction to STL Algorithms
• Introduction to Algorithms - Demo
• Sequence Container - Array
• Sequence Containers - Vector
• Sequence Containers - Deque
• Section Challenge 1
• Section Challenge 1 - Solution
• Sequence Containers - List and Forward List
• Section Challenge 2
• Section Challenge 2 - Solution
• Associative Containers - Sets
• Associative Containers - Maps
• Section Challenge 3
• Section Challenge 3 - Solution
• Container Adaptors - Stack
• Container Adaptors - Queue
• Section Challenge 4
• Section Challenge 4 - Solution
• Container Adaptors - Priority Queue
• Section 20 Quiz

• Section Overview
• Motivation
• Structure of a Lambda Expression
• Stateless Lambda Expressions
• Stateless Lambda Expressions Demo - Part 1
• Stateless Lambda Expressions Demo - Part 2
• Stateful Lambda Expressions
• Stateful Lambda Expressions Demo - Part1
• Stateful Lambda Expressions Demo - Part2
• Lambdas and the STL

Section Overview

• Installing VSCode on Windows
• Building and Running C++ Programs with VSCode on Windows
• Debugging C++ Programs with VSCode on Windows
• Using the Course Source Code with VSCode on Windows
• Installing VSCode on Mac OSX
• Building and Running C++ Programs with VSCode on Mac OSX
• Debugging C++ Programs with VSCode on Mac
• Using the Course Source Code with VSCode on Mac
• Installing VSCode on Linux
• Building and Running C++ Programs with VSCode on Linux
• Debugging C++ Programs with VSCode on Linux
• Using the Course Source Code with VSCode on Linux

• Section Overview
• Motivation
• The Structure of an Enumeration
• Unscoped Enumerations
• Scoped Enumerations

• Installation and Setup Overview
• Installing the C++ Compiler on Windows
• Installing CodeLite on Windows
• Configuring CodeLite on Windows
• Installing the C++ Compiler on Mac OSX
• Installing CodeLite on Mac OSX
• Configuring CodeLite on Mac OSX
• Installing CodeLite on Ubuntu Linux
• Configuring CodeLite on Ubuntu Linux
• Creating a Default CodeLite Project Template (All Versions)
• Using the Included Source Code Course Resources

• Source Code for all Sections

• Bonus - Course Slides and Free Programming EBook