Introduction

Background

C is great:

• One has control over everything

• Dominant language for years

• Real Men don’t do Object Oriented Programming

But …

• Same bugs over and over

  • Memory leaks and other cleanup

  • Dangling pointers

  • …

• The need for inheritance was obvious even without language support

  • Implementation idioms were similar

  • … but never the same

  • … and always had to have too much code

History

• 1980: Bjarne Stroustrup - “C with Classes”

• 1983: C++

• 1985: The C++ Reference Manual (Stroustrup)

• 1990: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual (Stroustrup)

• 1998: C++ ISO/IEC 14882:1998 - C++98

  • Standard Template Library

• 2003: Standard Revision (Fix) - C++03

• 2005 …: Technical Reports (Fixes)

• 2011: C++11, C++14, …

  • Library extension

  • New syntax (Unification with C, …)

Content

• Data encapsulation - Object

  • Constructor, destructor

  • Access control: public, protected, private

  • Methods and operators (Copy!)

• Inheritance

  • Classic OO Design ⟶ science on its own

• Templates

• Standard Library and Standard Template Library (STL)

  • String

  • IO streams

  • Container classes

  • Threading