CS3520: Programming in C++

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upcoming schedule is tentative and subject to change
this schedule is a guide to the topics, actual dues dates are in Canvas

Date	Topic	Reading	Misc	Assignment
Sep 6	Introduction to C++		Bjarne Stroustrup: Why I Created C++
Sep 10	Introduction to C++	Murach 1: An introduction to C++ programming (the sections on Visual Studio and Xcode are not required but may be useful) Murach 2: How to write your first programs	Scratch code	Setup
Sep 13	Control flow	Murach 3: How to make decisions Murach 4: How to code loops		Setup
Sep 17	I/O and streams	Murach 5: How to work with I/O streams and files		Basic programs
Sep 20	Data types	Murach 6: How to work with data types, strings, and vectors		Basic programs
Sep 24	Functions	Murach 7: How to code functions		Data processing programs
Sep 27	Debugging tools	Murach 8: How to test, debug, and deploy a program (the sections on Visual Studio and Xcode are not required but may be useful) Reference documentation: GDB documentation Valgrind documentation	Tools demo files	Data processing programs
Oct 1	Analysis tools	Reference documentation: gcov documentation callgrind documentation		Development Tools
Oct 4	Structs and enums	Murach 9: How to work with structures and enumerations		Development Tools
Oct 8	Arrays	Murach 10: How to work with built-in arrays and C strings (just Basic skills for built-in arrays and Advanced skills for built-in arrays)		Tic-tac-toe
Oct 11	C-Strings	Murach 10: How to work with built-in arrays and C strings (just How to work with C strings and Perspective) Beware of strncpy() and strncat()		Tic-tac-toe
Oct 15	Exceptions	Murach 11: How to work with exceptions		C-string Library
Oct 18	Classes	Murach 12: How to define classes		C-string Library
Oct 22	Inheritance and polymorphism	Murach 13: How to work with inheritance		Robots Game
Oct 25	Operator overloading	Murach 14: More skills for object-oriented programming(everything except How to work with modules) Static Initialization Order 'Fiasco', Construct On First Use Idiom		Robots Game
Oct 29	Data structures	Dynamic array, Linked list, Stack, Queue, Binary search tree, Hash table		Shape Library
Nov 1	Standard Template Library containers	Murach 15: How to work with STL containers and iterators Additional associative containers unordered_map unordered_set unordered_multimap unordered_multiset		Shape Library
Nov 5	Standard Template Library algorithms	Murach 16: How to work with STL algorithms Heaps and Priority Queues in C++		Document lookup
Nov 8	Memory and pointers	Murach 17: How to work with memory and pointers (just An introduction to memory and pointers, How to use pointers with functions, and More skills for working with pointers)		Document lookup
Nov 12	Memory and pointers	Murach 17: How to work with memory and pointers (just How to use pointers to work with dynamic memory)	Pointer Fun with Binky (C++)	Pathfinding
Nov 15	Memory and pointers	Murach 17: How to work with memory and pointers (just How to avoid memory leaks and corruption and Perspective) Special members		Pathfinding
Nov 19	Smart pointers	A beginner's look at smart pointers in modern C++		Word Array
Nov 22	Templates	Murach 18: How to work with templates Murach 19: How to code custom containers, iterators, and algorithms		Word Array
Nov 26	Unit testing	Reference documentation: CxxTest guide (through Test Runner Syntax)	Unit testing demo files	Deque
Nov 29	no class			Deque
Dec 3	Processes and threads	Fork Learn C++ Multi-Threading in 5 Minutes		Unit testing
Dec 6 - Dec 13				Final