Object Oriented Programming

Course: CS 423

Instructor: Mr. Azhar Jamil

Timings: Mondays to Thursday

Course Outline:

Revision: function, recursion and array and 2d array.

[3 Lecture]

Introduction: Introduction to class and objects, difference between procedural and OOP.
Characteristics of OOP. Access specifier. C++ syntax
[3 Lecture]

Static and constant data member and function: Static data member and static member
function. Constant data member, function, parameter and object.
[2 Lecture]

Memory management: new, delete and pointer to object

[2 Lecture]

Data Structure implementation in class: Stack and link list.

[2 Lecture]

IOStream: string, hierarchy of stream classes, functions of stream classes and stream errors
[2 Lecture]

File Handling: fstream, ifstream and ofstream, simple variable read from and write on file.
Object read and write on file.
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Inheritance: Introduction to Inheritance, Derived Class and Base Class, Accessing Base Class
Members & protected Access Specifier, Derived Class Constructors, Overriding Member
Functions Class Hierarchies, Abstract Base Class, Public and Private Inheritance, Access
Combination & Access Specifiers, Levels of Inheritance.
[4 Lecture]

Relationships and UML representation: type of class relationship “is a”, “has a” etc and
their representation in UML.
[3 Lecture]

Overloading: function and operator overloading.

OOP (course outline) ­1­ OOP (cs423/cs727)

[2 Lecture]

Data Conversion: Conversion between Basic data types, Conversion between Objects and
Basic data types, Conversion from Basic to User-Defined & User-Defined to Basic data type ,
Conversion between C-String and string Objects , Conversion between Objects of different
Classes, A Time Conversion Example, Explicit and mutable keywords , Pros and cons of
operator overloading
[4 Lecture]

Polymorphism: virtual function and friend function, late and early binding, abstract class and
pure virtual function
[2 Lecture]

Course Grade Distribution:

Course (Two 1.5 hr lectures)

Final Exam 30
Midterm Exam 18
Quizzes 12
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Laboratory (3 hr lab)
Demo of Prog Assignments 6
Final Assignment/Lab 8
Attitude 2
Attendance 4

Text Book: Robert Lafore, “Object Oriented Programming”, 4th Edition.

Reference Book: Greg Wiegand , “Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days”, 2 nd Edition. Online
version.

OOP (course outline) ­2­ OOP (cs423/cs727)