Introduction to C++

WHDL offers several Introduction to C++ courses. Choose a course based your programming experience with C++.

SystemC is a sophisticated modern language that exploits the very latest in Object Oriented Programming in the C++ language. This means that our SystemC courses have a very serious prerequisite of adequate C++ knowledge.

Our C++ courses are intended to introduce (or refresh) engineers who will be using C++ for design, modeling or verification purposes such as using the SystemC class library or the SystemC Verification library.

We offer 1 day, 2 day and 3 day versions of this course to meet the needs of students with different levels of C++ skill.

The following syllabus is for the 3 day C++ course but indicates the kind of knowledge needed prior to taking a SystemC course.

Syllabus

• Introduction
• Getting Started
• Preprocessor and Libraries
• Program Structure
• Basic Language Elements
• More Data Types
• I/O
• Pointers & References
• Classes - Modeling "objects"
• Constants
• Function overloading
• Initialization & cleanup
• Operator Overloading
• Templates
• Template specialization
• Useful utilities in the Standard Template Library [STL] ( + exercise)
• Inheritance

Hands-On Labs

A good portion of class time will be spent applying principles learned in lecture to hands-on labs.