DM560, Introduction to Programming in C++

General information

Schedule

Contents

Introductory Classes

Week	Date	Topic and Slides	Recommended Reading	Additional Reading
36	Sep 2	Course Organization. Building a program. (short)	Ch. 2 p 44-57 [BS]	Ch. 1,2 [BS]
37	Sep 10	Types (short)	Sec. 3.1-3.9, 4.3-4.7 [BS]	Ch. 3,4 [BS]
38	Sep 17	Computations, Control Structures, Functions, Vectors (short)		Ch. 4 [BS]
39	Sep 24	Error Handling (short)	Sec. 5.2-5.7,5.10	Ch. 5, App B.2.1 [BS]
39	Sep 24	Program Development. The calculator example (short)	Ch 6 [BS]
40	Oct 1	Program Development. The calculator example. Makefile	Sec. 7.1-7.7 [BS]	Sec. 7.8 [BS]
41	Oct 8	Declarations and Definitions, Functions, Scopes, Namespaces (short)	Ch. 8 [BS]
43	Oct 22	Classes (short)	Ch. 9 [BS]
43	Oct 24	I/O Streams (short)	Chp. 10 [BS]
44	Oct 29	I/O Formatting (short)	Chp. 11 [BS]
45	Nov 5	GUI Classes, Inheritance and Polymorphism (short)	Ch. 14 [BS]	Ch. 12,13,14 [BS]; slides
46	Nov 12	Memory Management: Pointers and Allocations (short)	Ch. 17 [BS]
47	Nov 19	Vectors: copy, move and arrays (short)	Ch. 18 [BS]
48	Nov 26	Vectors: templates and exceptions	Ch. 19 [BS]
49	Dec 3	Generic Programming: Templates, STL Containers, Iterators and Algorithms. Sequence Containers	Ch. 20 [BS]
49	Dec 5	Generic Programming: Templates, STL Containers, Iterators and Algorithms. Associative Containers	Ch. 21 [BS]
50	Dec 10	Numerics (Precision, Matrix, Random Numbers, Complex Numbers)	Ch. 24 [BS]
51	Dec 17

Exercises

Week	Date	Notes and Assignments	Solutions
36	Sep 5	Sheet 1
37	Sep 13	Sheet 2	solutions
37	Sep 20	Sheet 3
38	Sep 27	Sheet 4	solutions
41	Oct 11	Sheet 5
43	Oct 24	Sheet 6	solutions
44	Oct 31	Sheet 7	solutions
45	Nov 7	Sheet 8	solutions
46	Nov 15	Sheet 9	solutions
47	Nov 22	Sheet 10	solutions
49	Dec 3	Sheet 11	solutions
49	Dec 5	Sheet 12
50	Dec 10	Sheet 13	solutions

Notes

This is a list of notes referred to in the exercise sheets.

Literature

[BS] Bjarne Stroustrup, Programming – Principles and Practice Using C++ (Second Edition). Addison-Wesley 2014, ISBN 978-0-321-99278-9. The book at SDU bookstore
Derek Capper. Introducing C++ for Scientists, Engineers and Mathematicians Springer-Verlag London Limited 2001
Larry Nyhoff. Programming in C++ for Engineering and Science. CRC Press. 2012

Assessment

Class test 1. (Solutions.) Date: Friday, October 11, 2019. Example from previous year. (Solutions.)
Class test 2. Training. Date: Thursday, December 12, 2019.
Final Project. Examples from previous years.

Resources

Development Environments

Development environment in SDU eScience Cloud
Interactive Workflow for C++ with Jupyter. An online installation via Binder
Online compiler explorer
C++ Shell
ROOT, Data Analysis Framework developed by CERN. (Among others, it exposes a C++ interactive shell), Article, Computer Physics Communications, 2009, Article, Computer Physics Communications, 2011
Visualize C++ code execution

Libraries and Documentation

Extensions (not in this course):