PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGIES

A summary of C++: data types; expressions; statements; functions; scope and life cycle; function overloading; classes.
Programming by contract: pre-conditions, post-conditions and class invariants.
Initialization, assignment and destruction.
Exceptions and resource management; dynamic memory management techniques.
Single inheritance: containment versus private inheritance versus public inheritance.
Dynamic polymorphism: virtual functions; the Liskov's substitution principle.
Design of software interfaces: concrete types, abstract types, interface classes and implementation classes; multiple and virtual inheritance.
Static polymorphism: function templates and class templates.
The Standard Template Library: containers, iterators and generic algorithms; function objects.
Development environment: the compiler g++; the debugger gdb; automating the software build process: make; version control: cvs and git.
Documentation of software interfaces: doxygen.