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When I take a course,

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I always like to know what will be covered in that course,so I know what to expect.

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In this video, I'd like to go over the curriculum for this course.

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The curriculum has been developed in such a way

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that students with little to no programming background

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can get started programming quickly in c++.

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C++ is a very complex language,

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probably one of the most complex programming languages used today.

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That doesn't mean that learning the basics should be impossible to grasp.

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In fact, all programming languages provide the same general constructs

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that we use to build programs.

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This is a beginning modern c++ course.

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There are many, many topics in c++

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that are at an intermediate or advanced level.

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I won't be covering those topics in this course.

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My goal in this course is to teach the basics of c++

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so that you can write c++ programs that solve problems.

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More importantly, this course lays the foundation necessary to go forward

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and learn more advanced c++ concepts.

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This foundation will also allow you to read c++

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code written by other programmers.

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C++ frameworks are used everywhere.

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For example, if you want to program games in c++ using the unreal engine,

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then you'll have the background necessary to use their frameworks.

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If you want to use the popular c++ boost libraries,

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you'll be able to use them and understand many of their APIs.

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Okay. So let's talk about the curriculum and what you can expect in this course.

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We'll begin our c++ training by going over the CodeLite IDEs interface,

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and writing a c++ program using CodeLite.

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As we do this, we'll understand how to compile, build and run

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a c++ program. I'll also talk a bit about some errors you may encounter.

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I know what you're thinking. Gee, he's already talking about errors already.

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I haven't even started learning to program yet and he's talking about errors.

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Is this going to be that difficult?

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Don't worry. The sooner we talk about errors,

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kinds of errors, why they happen and how to fix them,

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the sooner errors will become normal and expected.

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I've seen students get turned off from programming because they get errors.

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Expect the errors, fix them and move on.

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Then we'll talk about the structure of a basic c++ program.

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I'll explain pound include, namespaces, comments, the main function

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cin and cout.

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These are the elements that nearly every c++ program will have.

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Then we'll talk about variables and constants and how to use them.

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You can't write a c++ program that does much of anything,

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unless it has variables and constants.

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We'll go over how to declare them, use them, name them and much more.

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We'll also discuss c++ basic types, which allow you to use integers,

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floating point numbers, characters, and more.

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Now that we know what variables are, we'll group a bunch of variables together into collection

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of variables called an array.

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Now we'll be storing and using multiple variables,

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like a bunch of test scores or temperatures for the last seven days.

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These collections are called arrays and vectors,

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and we'll learn how to create them and use them.

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We'll also learn how to use multidimensional structures,

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so we can model things like grids, boards, and spreadsheets.

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Then we'll learn about strings in c++.

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Strings are collections of characters. Like my name Frank,

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which is F-R-A-N-K.

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Strings are used extensively in c++, and we'll go over the basics in this section.

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In the following section, we'll learn how to write program statements.

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These statements are made up of expressions.

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We'll also go over some of the c++ operators like

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plus, minus, multiply, divide and so forth.

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At the end of this section, you'll be able to write c++ statements

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that tell the computer what to do in order.

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Now we get to the real powerful stuff, control flow.

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It's nice to be able to write a bunch of statements one after the other.

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But to really have power, we need to be able to make decisions and repeat things more than once.

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This is control flow.

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This will open up the world of programming, give you so much power.

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In the next section, we'll learn how to write functions.

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A function lets us group a bunch of statements into a single construct.

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It helps us organize our code and think more abstractly.

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Following functions, we'll talk about c++ pointers and references.

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You may have heard horror stories about c++ pointers. Don't worry.

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I'll walk you through how and why do you use them?

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And you'll see the incredible power they give you over your hardware.

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Finally, now that we know the basics of procedural programming in c++,

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we'll dive into object-oriented programming or OOP.

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OOP is awesome

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and lets you model your program in terms of real-world objects.

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C++ is after all an object-oriented language

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and that's how we want to use it. Once we understand the basics of OOP,

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we'll learn about operator overloading,

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which allows us to define how the built-in c++ operators

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can be defined so that they work with our own classes.

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So they feel like they're part of the standard language.

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Then we'll learn about inheritance and the power that it provides.

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Imagine reusing existing code by inheriting what you need from it

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and just modifying the parts that you need to solve your problem.

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We'll wrap up OOP with polymorphism.

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Polymorphism allows your program to determine its behavior at runtime

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and really lets you think in the general, so you don't have to be concerned about details.

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The last several sections of the course are slightly more advanced,

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but they're so important that I wanted to include them in this course.

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The first is smart pointers.

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We'll talk a lot about c++ pointers

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since every c++ programmer really needs to understand raw pointers.

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But c++ also provides smart pointers,

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which make memory management much simpler and make your program safer to use.

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Then we'll talk about the c++ standard template library.

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C++ provides a standard c++ template library

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with a rich set of containers, iterators and algorithms that are ready to use.

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Why reinvent the wheel when you can use the wheels you have?

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I'd go over the basic STL elements

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so that you can put them together and solve complex problems.

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We'll finish off the course by talking about input and output to files and exception handling.

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Exception handling allows you to deal with exceptional conditions

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that might occur in your program.

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What if a file doesn't exist or you try an operation and it fails?

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It's important to understand how to write your code

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so that it's aware that something has gone wrong so you can recover from it.

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Wow, that's a lot of material.

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Some of these topics can be covered by an entire course dedicated just to them.

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But don't worry,

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we aren't going to get into every possible option

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or explain every construct from a theoretical computer science perspective.

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This course is practical and it's about learning beginning c++,

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so that you can further explore this amazing programming language

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and use it in real-world applications.

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In the next videos, I’ll briefly discuss the challenge exercises

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and the quizzes that are included in the core sections.