GCO4020

Advanced object-oriented idioms in C++

This subject gives students an overview of some of the less obvious, but more powerful, idioms (programming techniques) that the C++ programming language supports. It is very practically oriented, with three assignments constituting the entire assessment, and assumes competence with basic C++, including multiple inheritance and templates. Topics: wrapper classes, factory classes, generic arrays and maps, envelope/letter classes, double dispatch, reference counting, dynamic scope, proxies, template constraints, template specialisation, persistence, functors, closures, continuations, receptors, deriving new stream types, generators, functional and declarative programming.

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