1. Object-Oriented Programming Using C++
2nd Year
Department of Software Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Salahaddin-Erbil
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2. About This Course, 1
In the first year we studied Procedural Programming in C++; this
course builds on that course and will introduce Object-Oriented
programming in C++.
When programs reach 30,000 to 50,000 lines of code, they become
very complex and difficult to comprehend. This is when you have to
look for another way to tackle large and complex programs.
Object-Oriented (OO) programming reduces this problem of
complexity. C++, a successor to C, was invented to support OO
programming and to be a better C.
So, this course will be on OO programming using C++. Last year’s
course is a pre-requisite for this course. Anyone who has forgot
using C++ is strongly advised to quickly refresh their C++ knowledge.
Object-Oriented Programming
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3. About This Course, 2
In the first 2 to 3 lectures, we will briefly go over some of the
important topics we studied last year, like arrays, structures,
functions, file I/O and pointers. Also we will quickly introduce a
number of minor topics which we should have studied last year.
Then on, we will start on OO programming concepts until the end of
the year. You should remember that this is an important subject; it
is also a hard subject! There is a lot of detail that you will
need to master. You are strongly advised to attend a