Introduction To OOP Using C++
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Copyright © Peter Müller
Introduction
This tutorial is a collection of lectures to be held in the
on-line
course Introduction to
Object-Oriented Programming
Using C++
. In
this course, object-orientation is introduced as a new programming
concept which should help you in developing high quality software.
Object-orientation is
also introduced as a concept which makes developing of projects
easier. However, this is not
a course for learning the C++
programming language. If you are interested in learning the language
itself, you might want to go through other tutorials, such as
C++: Annotations
by Frank Brokken and Karel Kubat. In this
tutorial only those language concepts that are needed to present coding
examples are introduced.
And what makes object-orientation such a hot topic? To be honest, not
everything that is sold under the term of object-orientation is really
new. For example, there are programs written in procedural languages
like Pascal or C which use object-oriented concepts. But there exist a
few important features which these languages won't handle or won't
handle very well, respectively.
Some people will say that object-orientation is ``modern''. When reading announcements of new products everything seems to be ``object-oriented''. ``Objects'' are everywhere. In this tutorial we will try to outline characteristics of object-orientation to allow you to judge those object-oriented products.
The tutorial is organized as follows. Chapter 2 presents a brief overview of procedural programming to refresh your knowledge in that area. Abstract data types are introduced in chapter 3 as a fundamental concept of object-orientation. After that we can start to define general terms and beginning to view the world as consisting of objects (chapter 4). Subsequent chapters present fundamental object-oriented concepts (chapters 5 and 6). Chapters 7 through 9 introduce C++ as an example of an object-oriented programming language which is in wide-spread use. Finally chapter 10 demonstrates how to apply object-oriented programming to a real example.