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Object-Oriented Programming - COMP3171
UNSW Computing

 
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs3171
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP2011 or COMP2711 or COMP2911.
 
 
Equivalent: COMP9171
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course introduces the fundamentals and advanced techniques of object-oriented programming in C++.

Object-oriented inheritance techniques. Advanced techniques with functions. Memory and resource managment. Namespaces. Run time type information. Templates and generic programming. C++ Template metaprogramming. The Standard Template Library (e.g., algorithms, containers and iterators). Input/Output wth C++ iostreams library. Exception handling. C++ and Efficiency issues. Effective C++ design guidelines.

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