COURSE TITLE: ECE 231 Advanced Programming for Computer Engineers

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Object-oriented programming, classes and data hiding, dynamic object construction and destruction, derived classes and inheritance, virtual functions; file processing; introduction to UNIX; testing and test generation.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

H. M. Deitel and P. J. Deitel, C++: How to Program, Prentice Hall, 4^th edition, 2003.

Arnold Robbins, Linux—Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall, 2004.

COURSE COORDINATOR: Larry Henschen

COURSE GOALS:

PREREQUISITES: CS 110 or knowledge of any programming language

PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC:

COURSE TOPICS:

Week 1: Software engineering, review of pointers, arrays and functions

Lab demonstrations: Visual C++ system

Week 2: Classes, data hiding, data and function members, constructors and destructors

Lab demonstrations: Wilkinson lab (logging in, accessing programs), UNIX, GCC/C++, elated tools such as EMACS

Week 3: Constructors/destructors, shallow vs. deep destructors, “this”,

implementing function members in C using “this”-type pointers

Lab: UNIX shell, more useful commands, UNIX file system, maybe security models (users, groups, permissions)

Week 4: Inheritance

Week 5: Virtual functions, pure virtual classes, container classes

Week 6: Linked lists, stacks, trees and recursion

Week 7: File processing, sequential vs random file access, fseek, fpos and related,

processing files of records

Week 8: UNIX, bit and byte manipulation

Week 9: Exceptions and exception handling

Week 10: Testing, generation of test cases via path analysis

COMPUTER USAGE:

LABORATORY: Programming assignments will be done on UNIX systems.

GRADES:

COURSE OBJECTIVES: When a student completes this course, s/he should be able to:

ABET CONTENT CATEGORY: 100% Engineering (Design component).