The topics below are not necessarily in the order used in lectures: for that see the course topics page.

C++ specifics

• an introduction to C++
• data and calculation
• comments: single line, multi line
• literals, constants, and #define statements
• enumerated types
• data types and conversions
• input and output with scanf and printf
• Boolean expressions and selection (if/else, switch)
• Repetition (loops): while, do while, for
• functions and parameters, recursion
• variable scope
• arrays and strings
• command line arguments
• basic sorting of arrays (bubblesort, combsort)
• binary search of sorted arrays
• multidimensional arrays and typedefs
• file I/O
• structs and unions
• pointers
• dynamic array resizing
• abstract data types (ADTs)
• linked lists

Systems and software

• introduction to software development
• hardware/software interaction
• small scale program management
• modularity and design with functions
• style rules and programming

  Extra topics, time permitting

• output with cout and input with cin
• namespaces
• computing history
• overview of classes and objects
• testing and debugging principles

Additional C++ reference material is available from the Wikibook: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Programming - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 except 2.5 - Chapter 3.5 - Appendix A Note that the text often has much more detail than we use in the first half of the course. You can find any number of free online C++ tutorials, here are a couple of examples: cplusplus.com Washington Univ., St. Louis cpp-home.com cfanatic.com learncpp.com