Technical and Research Skills: IT Skills

C++ for Beginners

3 days

This three-day course will provide an introduction to the C++ programming language and its use. After attending you will have acquired the basic skills in programming in C++ and an understanding of the ideas of object oriented programming. Topics include:

• an introduction to classes and objects;
• arithmetic operators;
• simple input and output;
• comparison operators and the use of conditional and iterative control statements;
• formatting of output;
• logical operators and De Morgan's law;
• bitwise operators;
• creation of user defined functions;
• introduction to pointers;
• data validation using character arrays;
• introduction to arrays;
• using classes containing static functions and static variables;
• ensuring character array bounds are not exceeded for data input;
• the string class;
• data validation using the string class;
• communication between objects.

This course will have a mixture of taught and practical work. Prior programming experience is not necessary but would be advantageous.

Provider: UGC
Target Group: RS & PGR