Learn C++ programming from the ground up in this comprehensive course that covers fundamental concepts through advanced object-oriented programming principles. Master the essentials starting with development environment setup, including compiler and IDE installation, program compilation, and execution processes. Explore primitive built-in types, variables, compound types like references and pointers, and the const qualifier while understanding type conversions and scope management. Dive into C++ standard library components including strings, vectors, and arrays, along with iterator usage and multidimensional array handling. Study expression fundamentals covering arithmetic, logical, relational, assignment, increment, decrement, bitwise, and conditional operators, plus type conversions and operator precedence. Progress through control flow statements including conditional statements (if, switch), iterative statements (while, for, do-while), jump statements (break, continue, goto), and exception handling with try blocks. Develop proficiency in function programming covering function basics, argument passing, return types, function overloading, specialized features, function matching, and function pointers. Advance to class design and implementation, learning to define abstract data types, implement access control and encapsulation, work with constructors, static class members, and custom data structures. Explore input/output operations through the IO library, including file input/output and string streams. Master operator overloading and conversions, covering input/output operators, arithmetic and relational operators, assignment operators, subscript operators, increment/decrement operators, member access operators, and function-call operators. Conclude with object-oriented programming principles including inheritance, virtual functions, abstract base classes, access control in inheritance, class scope under inheritance, constructors with copy control, and containers with inheritance.

Syllabus

Introduction to C++ Programming
Writing a Simple C++ Program
Installing Source Code Editor and Compiler
Compiling & Executing C++ Programs (Windows CMD)
Compiling & Executing C++ Programs (VS Code)
Input and Output in C++
Namespaces in C++
Comments in C++
Comments in C++ (Exercise)
The 'while' Statement in C++
The 'for' Statement in C++
Reading an Unknown Number of Inputs in C++
The 'if-else' Statement in C++
The 'else-if' Statement in C++
C++ Program to Count Number of Consecutive Inputs
Indentation and Formatting of C++ Programs
Primitive Built-in Types in C++
Signed and Unsigned Types in C++
Machine-Level Representation of Built-in Types in C++
Type Conversions in C++
Literals in C++
Escape Sequences in C++
Variables in C++
Identifiers in C++
Scope of a Name in C++
Nested Scopes in C++
Compound Types in C++ (References)
Compound Types in C++ (Pointers)
const Qualifier in C++
References to const in C++
Pointers and const in C++
Top-Level and Low-Level const in C++
Constant Expressions
Pointers and constexpr in C++
Type Aliases in C++
Pointers, const, and Type Aliases in C++
The auto Type Specifier in C++
The decltype Type Specifier in C++
decltype and References in C++
The string Data Type in C++
Operations on Strings (Part 1)
Operations on Strings (Part 2)
Operations on Strings (Part 3)
Dealing with Characters in a String
Processing Every Character in a String
Processing Some Characters in a String
The Vector Type in C++
Defining and Initializing Vectors in C++
Adding Elements to a Vector in C++
Some more Vector Operations in C++