Getting Started
- Writing, building and running
  a C++ program
- Language structure
- The Main Procedure
- Basic stream and console 
  Input/Output
- Declaring and initialising variables
- Fundamental data types 
- Strings

Structured Programming
- Control Flow, Loops and 
  Conditions 
- The for Loop 
- do and while 
- if and else
- The Conditional expression 
- Functions and argument passing
- Argument passing by value and 
  reference 
- Predeclarations and Prototypes 
- Using Header Files 
- The Switch statement
- Variable Scope - Local, Static, 
  Global
- Variable Lifetimes 
- Using Namespaces 
- Memory management 
- Casting and Cast types

Classes & Objects
- What is Object Orientation? 
- Defining Classes and creating 
  objects
- Classes vs. data structures 
- Object Oriented design concepts

Using Objects
- Encapsulation and data Hiding
- Constructors and Destructors
- Default Constructors and 
  Initialisation
- Class Definition and 
  Implementation
- Inheritance and Polymorphism
- Overriding 
- Constructing applications using 
  objects
- Class examples
- Practical Polymorphism
- Virtual Functions
- Abstract Base Classes
- Run time Type information and
  dynamic_cast 
- Constant and Static Members 
- Using 'this' 
- Calling the Base Class 
  Constructor explicitly 
- Friends 
- Multiple Inheritance and Virtual
- Base Classes

Dynamic Objects
- Pointers and the use of New 
  and Delete
- Arrays and Collections 
- Safe use of Pointers
- Pointers and References

Operator Overloading
- Basics of Operator overloading
- Operator overloading rules
- Operator examples 
- Mixing Types 
- Binary, Unary and Postfix 
  Operators
- Friends and Alternatives 
- Type Conversion Operators 
- Operator = Assignment and 
  Construction
- The Copy constructor 
- Practical examples

Templates
- How Templates work
- Function Templates 
- Type safety
- Templates, Parameter Types 
  and Overloading 
- Class Templates 
- Using Constants 
- Templates in the Standard 
  Library
- Designing and using Templates

Error & Exception Handling
- Exceptions in C++ 
- try, catch and throw 
- Strategies for errors and 
  exceptions
- Deriving Exception Classes

Additional & Historic Features
- Structs, Unions and typedef
- More about Main 
- Logical and Bitwise operators
- Conditional compilation and 
  the Pre-processor 
- Compatibility with C 
- More Streams
- Ancient Features