Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Differentiate between the C/C++ programming languages.
- Describe the significance of the main function to a C++ program.
- List the four components of a C/C++ integrated development environment (IDE).
- Describe the value of libraries and explain how libraries are included in a C/C++ program.
- Code and test a simple “Hello, world!” program in C++.
- Differentiate between variables and literals.
- Differentiate among assignment, arithmetic, comparison, and logical operators, specifying the assignment operator and at least two examples of each of the others.
- List at least five data types, and specify at least two representative values for each data type.
- Correctly specify the syntax of the “if” statement.
- Code and test a C++ program that includes variables and constants of different data types, multiple operators, and at least one “if” statement.
- Distinguish between the C++ “if” statement, “switch” statement, and looping statement.
- Explain the purpose of an array and describe how programmers iterate, or walk through, an array.
- Identify a function declaration, arguments passed to a function, and a value returned from a called function.
- Code and test a C++ program that includes a looping statement, an array, and a function declaration/call.
- Explain how defining data and behaviors together in a class differs from the procedural approach to defining data and behaviors.
- Distinguish between a C++ class definition and an instantiation of that class.
- Identify a C++ class constructor.
- Distinguish between a function and a member function in C++.
- Code and test a C++ program that includes class definitions, object instantiations, and method calls.
- Explain the benefit of inheriting one or more derived classes from a base class.
- Differentiate between private and protected members.
- Define the term overloaded, and explain why a programmer might want to overload a base class function with a function of the same name in the derived class.
- Code and test a C++ program that includes a base class and a derived class.
