UMBC CMSC 202, Computer Science II, Spring 1999, Sections 0101, 0102, 0103, 0104

2. Overview of C++

Tuesday February 02, 1999

• Questions and Answers on the information contained in the Course Web Pages
• Naming conventions
• What is Object Orientation (OO)?
• What is a class?
• What is an object?
• Encapsulation
• Basic syntax of writing a class
• .H and .C files
• The Vector class (pp. 60-62)
  • Data and function members
  • Private and public sections
  • Constructors
  • Scope resolution operator
  • Creating Vector objects
  • Accessing member functions
  • Definition of "host" object