Object Oriented Programming

What you'll learn

The key areas this subject covers, mapped to the official curriculum.

• Objects, classes and encapsulation
• Constructors and destructors
• Inheritance and polymorphism
• Operator overloading and templates
• Exception handling and file I/O

Course units

The structured path through this subject.

1. 1

   Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

   Why OOP exists, its core features, history and how it compares with procedural programming and C.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

2. 2

   Basics of C++ programming

   Program structure, tokens, data types, operators, control flow and I/O in C++.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

3. 3

   Classes & Objects

   Defining classes, encapsulation, constructors, friend functions and static members.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

4. 4

   Operator Overloading

   Overloading binary and unary operators, rules and type conversions.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

5. 5

   Inheritance

   Base and derived classes, inheritance types, constructors, ambiguity and virtual base classes.

   7 topics · 7 lessons available

6. 6

   Virtual Function, Polymorphism, and miscellaneous C++ Features

   Function overloading, inline and friend functions, this pointer, virtual functions and abstract classes.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

7. 7

   Function Templates and Exception Handling

   Generic programming with function and class templates, and structured error handling with exceptions.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available

8. 8

   File handling

   Text and binary files, file modes, random access and error handling with the fstream library.

   5 topics · 5 lessons available