Need for object oriented programming – Procedural Languages vs. Object oriented approach –Characteristics Object oriented programming – C++ Programming Basics: Basic Program Construction – Output Using cout – Input with cin – Data types – Variables and Constants – Operators – Control Statements-Manipulators-Type conversion.

Simple Class – C++ Objects as Physical Objects – C++ Object as Data types – Constructors and Destructors – Object as Function Arguments – Returning Objects from Functions – Structures and Classes – Arrays and Strings

Need of operator overloading – Overloading Unary Operators – Overloading binary Operators – Overloading Special Operators – Data Conversion – Inheritance: Derived Class and Base Class – Derived Class Constructors – Overriding Member Functions-Class Hierarchies – Public and Private Inheritance – Levels of Inheritance – Multiple Inheritance.

Virtual Function – Friend Function – Static Function-Assignment and Copy Initialization – Streams – String I/O – Character I/O – Object I/O – I/O with Multiple Objects – File Pointers – Disk I/O with Member Functions – Error Handling in File I/O.

Templates: Introduction – Function Templates – Overloading Function Templates – Class Templates – Exception Handling – Syntax, multiple exceptions, exceptions with arguments