Lecture 1: Introduction to OOP

Tuesday 01/30, 2007

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Assigned Reading:  1.1, 7.3, 9

Slides As Shown:

• Announcements, etc: [slide view] [print view]

• Object-Oriented Programming & C++ vectors: [slide view] [print view]

Topics Covered:

• Announcements

  • Yes, discussion sections are meeting this week.

  • Room change: Discussion Sections 0101 & 0102 meet in ITE 240.

  • No TA office hours this week.

  • Students on hold list were given permission.

• Discussed Course Description, Grading , Attendance Policy , Projects and Academic Conduct , and Computer Science Gateway .

• Talked about object-oriented programming (OOP) as a methodology.

• Discussed "Enhanced Array" as an example. If we designed an ADT it might look like this in C: CIntArray header file, CIntArray implementation (partial implementation). In a test program ( ciatest.c ) using the CIntArray ADT, the code for bubblesort is messy and ugly. (ciatest.c sample run.)

• The C++ Standard Template Library (STL) includes a vector object that supports the Enhanced Array ADT but is much easier to use: vectortest.cpp, vectortest.cpp sample run.