Technical and Research Skills: IT SKills

C++ Advanced

3 days

This three-day course will build on the knowledge gained in the "C++ for Beginners" course. After attending this course, you will be able to write C++ programs for your own work.

Topics covered in this advanced course include:

• introduction to inheritance;
• calling a base class constructor from the derived class constructor;
• inheriting a function of the base class in the derived class;
• base class access control;
• mathematical methods;
• numeric arrays;
• dynamic memory allocation;
• text file processing;
• formatting data;
• random numbers;
• use of makefiles;
• #include and #define directives;
• random access files;
• use of seekg, seekp, tellg and tellp functions when accessing random-access files;
• exception handling;
• introduction to the vector class.

The course will have a mixture of taught and practical work. A prerequisite is a good knowledge of the topics covered in the "C++ for Beginners" course. you should have some knowledge of UNIX/LINUX before attending or have attended the "UNIX/LINUX: An Introduction" course.

N.B. You must attend all 3 days.

Provider: UGC
Target Group: RS & PGR