Course contents

Module 1: Fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming (OO)
1.1. Structured programming.
1.2. History of some languages.
1.3. Imperative programming vs declarative programming.
1.4. Main programming paradigms.
1.5. What is OO programming?
1.5.1. Classes.
1.5.2. Inheritance.
1.5.3. The messages.
1.5.4. Internal structure of an object.
1.6. Cancellation and replacement.
1.7. Overload.
1.8. Dynamic ligature.
1.9. Object-oriented reuse.
1.10. Polymorphism.
1.11. Benefits of OO technology

Module 2: Modularity.
2.1. Requirements relating to module structures
2.2. Traditional modular structures
23. Functional decomposition
2.4. Object-based decomposition.
2.5. Module design.
2.6. Data types (TAD).
2.7. Abstraction in programming languages.
2.8. Abstract data types
2.9. The TADs in the OO paradigm.

Module 3: Relationships
3.1. The relationships between classes.
3.2. Generalization/specialization relationship.
3.3. Aggregation relationship.
3.4. Association relationship.
3.5. Inheritance: class hierarchy.
3.6. Multiple inheritance.

Module 4: Classes and objects in an OO programming language (LPOO)
4.1. Classification of object-oriented languages
4.2. Pure vs. hybrid languages
4.3. Classes and objects.
4.4. Objects.
4.5. Classes.
4.6. Creation of classes.
4.7. Class and object diagrams.
4.8. Object creation and initialization techniques.
4.9. Initialization and cleanup of objects.
4.10. Guidelines for class construction.
4.11. Pointers.
4.12. Assertions

Module 5: Abstract classes and inheritance in an LPOO
5.1. Abstraction of generalization and specialization of classes.
5.2. abstract classes.
5.3. Inheritance and derived classes.
5.4. Repeated inheritance and virtual base classes.
5.5. Pure virtual functions.
5.6. Hiding information

Module 6: Polymorphism in an LPOO
6.1. Dynamic ligation vs. static ligation.
6.2. Virtual functions.
6.3. Redefinition
6.4. Polymorphism.
6.5. Use of polymorphism.
6.6. Advantages of Polymorphism. Genericity.
6.7. Templates
6.7.1. Template Fundamentals
6.7.2. Function templates.
6.7.3. Class templates.
6.7.4. A template for managing data stacks.

Module 7: Templates vs. Polymorphism

Final evaluation