Game Institute C++ Module 1 - Summary and Code

Week/Lesson 1
Simple basics of C++ - IO stuff using cout and cin, variable types, typedef, sizeof(), arithmatic operations, type conversions, consts, macros, how the Visual C++ compiler converts to machine code. The excercises below are of the most basic kind.
Excercises from the chapter:
Excercise 1: Arithmatic operators
Excercise 2: cin/cout
Excercise 3: Cubed
Excercise 4: Area/Circumference
Excercise 5: Average
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Week/Lesson 2

Relational and logic operators, conditional statements, loops, break and continue keywords, as well as an introduction to arrays and array iterations. Also talked about code behind the linear search and the selection sort method.

Excercises from the chapter:
Excercise 1: Logical Operator Evaluation (no code)
Excercise 2: Simple Navigator
Excercise 3: Average
Excercise 4: Factorial
Excercise 5: Matrix Addition
Excercise 6: Ascii
Excercise 7: Linear Search (simple search algorithm)
Excercise 8: Selection Sort (sorting algorithm)

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Week/Lesson 3
Functions, function overloading, default parameters, variable scope, the c++ maths library and random numbers. Some of the excercises may be repeated from previous chapters but the idea is to build it better each time with what you learn.
Excercises from the chapter:
Excercise 1: Factorial
Excercise 2: ToUpper/ToLower
Excercise 3: 3D distance
Excercise 4: Arc Tangent 2
Excercise 5: Calculator
Excercise 6: Slot Machine
Excercise 7: Binary Search (searching algorithm)
Excercise 8: Bubble Sort (sorting algorithm)
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Week/Lesson 4

References, pointers, pointer arithmetic, arrays as functions parameters, multiple return values, dynamic memory, std::vector, pointers to functions. I have gone over this lesson a number of times.

Excercises from the chapter:
Excercise 4.1: Explanation of terms:
Excercise 4.2: Dice Roll by reference/pointers
Excercise 4.3: Two parts - 'Fill Array' - ask,resize and fill an array using 1) an array 2) a vector.
Excercise 4.4 - Quadratic Equation in a function
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Week/Lesson 5

OOP Ideas, class definition and implementation files, dot/arrow operators, inclusion guards, data hiding, constructors and destructors, public v private and briefly touched on Copy Constructors and Assignment operators but they will be covered in depth later.

RPG Code zip.

Week/Lesson 6

The lesson dealt with a smaller items that dont require a whole lesson/week. Char strings, string literals, escape chars, c-string functions, std::string functions, the this pointer, friends, the static keyword in functions and as data members, enumerated types, namespaces.
Excercises from the chapter:
Excercise 6.1:ToUpper (using strings)
Excercise 6.2: ToLower (using strings)
Excercise 6.3: Palindrome

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Week/Lesson 7

The lesson dealt with operator overloading and why to use it. Fairly in depth including building our own 3D class and some work on shallow v deep copies.
Excercises from the chapter:
Excercise 7.1: Fraction Class
Excercise 7.2: Create the FractionArray.cpp file

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Week/Lesson 8

How to load and save text Files and binary files.
Week/Lesson 9

Inheritance, 'isa' v 'hasa', Base/Derived class casting, public v private inheritance, constructors and destructors with inheritance, multiple inheritance, polymorphism, how virtual functions work and their cost, abstract classes, interfaces.