What is C++?, Fundamentals of a C++ Program?, Installing the C++ Compiler

Overview of the structure of a C++ Program, include Preprocessor directive, comments, the main() function, Namespaces, basic input and output using cin and cout, writing our first program, what are complier errors?, what are complier warnings?, What are Linker errors?, what are runtime errors?, what are logic errors?

What is a variable?, Declaring and Initialising variables, global variables, local variables, what is the size of a variable, what is constant, declaring and using constants

What is an array?, declaring and initializing arrays, accessing and modifying array elements, multidimensional arrays, declaring and initializing vectors, accessing and modifying vector elements.

Expressions and statements, using operators, the assignment operator, arithmetic operator, Increment and decrement operator, mixed expressions and conversions, testing for equality, relational operator, logical operator, compound assignment operator, operator precedence

if statement, if else statement, nested if statements, switch-case statement, conditional operator, looping , nested loops.

character function, C-style string, working with C-style string, CC++ Strings

What is a function?, function definition, function prototypes, function parameters and the return statement, default argument value, overloading functions, passing arrays to functions, pass by reference , scope rules, how do function calls work?, inline functions, recursive functions.

What is a pointer?, declaring pointers, accessing the pointer address and storing address in a pointer, dereferencing a pointer, dynamic memory allocation, the relationship between arrays and pointers, pointer arithmetic, const and pointers, passing pointers to functions, returning a pointer from a function, potential pointer pitfall, what is a reference?, L-values and R-values, using the CodeLite IDE Debugger.

What is Object-Oriented programming?, What are classes and Objects?, Declaring a class and creating objects, Accessing class members, public and private, implementing member methods, constructor and destructors, the default constructor, overloading constructor, constructor initialization lists, delegating constructors, constructor parameters and default values, copy constructor, shallow copying with the copy constructor, deep copying with the copy constructor, move constructors, the 'this' Pointer, using const with classes, static class members, structs vs classes

Operator overloading, inheritance, polymorphism

What is a smart pointer? Ownership and RAII, Unique pointers, shared pointers, weak pointers, custom deleters

Basic concepts and a simple example: dividing by zero, throwing an exception from a function, handling multiple exceptions, stack unwinding and how it works, creating user-defined exception classes, class level exceptions, the C++ std: exception class hierarchy.

Files, streams and I/O, stream manipulators, reading from a text file.

What is the STL?, Generic programming with Macros, generic programming with function templates, generic programming class templates, creating a generic array template class, Introduction to STL containers, introduction to STL Iterators, introduction to STL Algorithms, Sequence container(Array, Vector, Deque), associative containers, container adaptors