COMP 322 - Introduction to C++
(Winter 2011)

News and announcements

March 22	Sevan's Practice Exercises Zineng's Practice Exercises Yancheng's Practice Exercises
March 8	(I) Test 2 is scheduled to take place Tuesday, March 29, 2:35-3:55 PM Location: McConnell Engineering Building, room 204 (II) Assignment 2 Posted, Due April 5
February 8	Test 1 is scheduled to take place Tuesday, February 15, 2:35-3:25 PM Location: Strathcona Anatomy & Dentistry building, room 2/36
February 1	Practice Exercises
January 18	Lecture 3 Slides Updated to fix Operator Precedence error Please note the new classroom ENGTR 1090
January 11	Assignment 1 Posted, Due February 8 Please note the new TA office hours
January 4	Welcome Useful page for installing g++ on Windows

Description
This 1-credit course will provide an overview of the fundamentals of the C++ programming language. Topics include, but are not limited to, pointers, memory management, object-oriented concepts, operator overloading, templates, and exceptions. We will also cover features of the C++ Standard Library. Other topics may be covered time permitting due to the limited amount of lectures available.

Course facts

Syllabus	[PDF]
Location	Trottier 1090
Time	Tuesday 14:35-15:25
Date Range	January 4th - April 8th 2011
Official Website	http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~mscacc/comp322
Instructor	Milena Scaccia
Email	mscacc@cs.mcgill.ca
Office	McConnell 229
Office hour	Tuesday 13:00-14:00
	Or by appointment
Teaching Assistant 1	Sevan Hanssian
Email	shanss@cs.mcgill.ca
Office	McConnell 229
Office Hour	Wednesday 12:00-13:00
Teaching Assistant 2	Zineng Yuan
Email	zineng.yuan@mail.mcgill.ca
Office	Trottier TA Room 3103
Office Hour	Friday 10:00-11:00
Teaching Assistant 3	Yancheng Xiao
Email	yancheng.xiao@mail.mcgill.ca
Office	McConnell 229
Office Hour	Thursday 11:00 - 12:00

Prerequisites
This course requires that you have already completed at least one of COMP 202, or COMP 250, or COMP 206, or COMP 208. Familiarity with the C programming language is assumed.

If you have not met all of these prerequisites, you should not take this course.

Assessment
There will be 2 assignments and 2 in-class tests. You will be graded according to:

Assignments:	2 Assignments, 25% each
Exams:	2 Tests, 25% each

Note that this evaluation method is tentative.

Lecture Notes

04 Jan - Lecture 1	Course Introduction
11 Jan - Lecture 2	Basic Features
Jan 18 - Lecture 3	Pointers and References UPDATED
25 Jan - Lecture 4	Memory Management
01 Feb - Lecture 5	I/O Using the Standard Library & Intro to Classes
08 Feb - Lecture 6	Classes continued & Overloading
15 Feb - Test 1	-
22 Feb - Study Break	-
01 Mar - Lecture 7	Overloading continued & Inheritance UPDATED
08 Mar - Lecture 8	Inheritance continued
15 Mar - Lecture 9	Templates and the STL
22 Mar - Lecture 10	Exceptions & New Features from C++0x
29 Mar - Test 2	-
05 Apr - Lecture 11	Wrap-Up (Optional Topic: Basic C++ GUI Programming)

Assignments

To be returned through myCourses

Assignment 1	Handout Tictactoe.cpp MusicRecords.cpp
Assignment 2	handout testfile

References

Standard : International Standard ISO/IEC 14882 :  Programming Languages -  C++.

Library : Standard Template Library


Thank you to Robert Vincent and Junaed Sattar.

Academic integrity
McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity  for more information).

Last modified March 31 2011 (Milena Scaccia).