Introduction to C++ – Lecture Notes – MYCPLUS - C and C++ Programming Resources

This post contains lecture notes of “Introduction to C++” course which is taught at MIT OpenCourseWare. OCW is a free and open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. There’s no signup, no enrollment, and no start or end dates.

This is introductory course to the C++ programming language. Anyone with little or no programming experience can equally take this course. However, someone with prior programming experience will still learn C++ specific constructs and concepts.

Important topics of this course are:

Basic C++ programming constructs
Manipulation of data types i.e. arrays, strings, and pointers using C++
Isolate and fix common errors in C++ programs
C++ Memory Management including proper allocation/deallocation procedures
Object Oriented Approach using C++
Writing C++ programs

This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

#	Topic	Description	Notes
1	Introduction	An introduction to C++ and hello world program, basic language features and variables.	Introduction - C++ Lecture Notes (111.9 KiB, 35,797 hits)
2	Flow of control	Description of Control structures and Nested Control Structures.	Flow of control - C++ Lecture Notes (127.6 KiB, 16,056 hits)
3	Functions	Basic use of functions, declaration, arguments, return values and function overloading.	Functions - C++ Lecture Notes (459.7 KiB, 16,088 hits)
4	Arrays and Strings	Basic use of arrays and strings.	Arrays and Strings - C++ Lecture Notes (105.5 KiB, 13,664 hits)
5	Pointers	Pointers and their Behavior, declaration and syntax.	Pointers - C++ Lecture Notes (136.9 KiB, 12,511 hits)
6	Classes	Class declaration, instances, accessing fields, passing as parameters and constructors.	Classes - C++ Lecture Notes (503.4 KiB, 14,331 hits)
7	Object-Oriented Programming	The Basic Ideas of OOP, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism and Multiple Inheritance.	Object-Oriented Programming - C++ Lecture Notes (147.0 KiB, 16,135 hits)
8	Memory Management	Memory management, Allocation and Deallocation, new and delete operators.	Memory Management - C++ Lecture Notes (513.5 KiB, 15,075 hits)
9	Advanced topics I	Templates, Standard Template Library and Operator Overloading.	Advanced topics I - C++ Lecture Notes (111.7 KiB, 13,334 hits)
10	Advanced topics II	File handling, References, Exceptions, Preprocessor Macros and Casting.	Advanced topics II - C++ Lecture Notes (218.3 KiB, 19,367 hits)

Jesse Dunietz, Geza Kovacs, and John Marrero. 6.096 Introduction to C++. January IAP 2011. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.