CS-1201 Object-Oriented Programming

Instructor: Arbish Akram

This course covers the principles and practice of object-oriented programming using C++. Building on procedural programming, students learn to design programs using classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, and templates. Emphasis is placed on clean design, reusability, and real-world problem solving.

Prerequisites

Programming Fundamentals.

Text

Grading

Assignments5%

Quizzes25%

Midterm Exam20%

Final Exam50%

Schedule

Lecture	Topics	Quizzes	Assignments	Tutorial
1-2	Introduction to OOP Course Information, Procedural Programming, Global vs. Local Data, Four Pillars of OOP (Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism)			Multi-File Programs in C++
3-4	Classes, Objects, and Constructors Defining Classes, Creating Objects, Access Modifiers, Default and Parameterized Constructors, Initialization List, Constructor Overloading, Member Functions Defined Outside the Class	Quiz 1, Quiz 2
5	Passing and Returning Objects Pass Objects to Functions, Return Objects from Functions, Array of Objects
6	The `this` Pointer and Cascading Function Calls `this` Pointer, Cascading Function Calls
7-8	Static and Constant Members Static Variables, Static Data Members, Static Member Functions, Constant Member Functions, Static Constant Data Members, Constant Objects	Quiz 3, Quiz 4
9	Friend Functions and Classes Friend Functions, Friend Classes		Assignment 1
10	Destructor and Copy Constructor Destructor, Copy Constructor (Default vs. User-Defined), Deep vs. Shallow Copy
11-13	Operator Overloading Arithmetic, Relational, Stream, Comparison, Unary	Quiz 5, Quiz 6