Projects & Demos

• Start Here: Get your software installed.

• Get Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition installed on your computer.

• Setting up Visual Studio for C++ Desktop Applications

  • To add C++ windows forms projects into VS, download this project follow these directions

  • Note: In VS2017 the "Export template" menu item is under 'Project'.

• Review Lesson(See CS120 page)
  

• Simple data entry with variables

• Data Types & casting

• Counts & Totals

• Using List Boxes & Dynamic Properties

• Learning about Running Totals & Counting

• If & switch

• Using Loops

• Counted & Logic loops

• Loop Test Demo
  Using List boxes Part 1
  Using List boxes Part 2 

• For Each Loop Demo
  Using List boxes Part 3
  Controls Collection Demo

• EXAM 1

• Covers Review. Lesson Review Sheet here

• Lesson 5
  
  • File I/O, Try-Catch, Custom Methods, StreamReader, and StreamWriter (Murach Chapter 17 & Allain Chapter 28)
  • Binary File I/O

• Introduction to File I/O for Text Files
• Native Code
  • 1- Read Text File
  • 2- Write to Text File
  • Tips on file IO from Alex Allain
• CLR GUI version

• 5-3 TextFileIO

• Structured Error Handling (Murach Page 172) Slides
  

File I/O Videos: (These are in C# but C++ is very similar!)

• Videos:

• Part 1 Read from disk file

• Part 2 List box Add/Delete

• Part 3 Write to a disk file

• How hard disks work

• Introduction to File I/O for Binary Files
• CLR GUI version
  • 5-4 Binary Files Demo

• Exam 2 on Lesson 5

• Lesson 6
  Custom Functions, properties & Classes (Murach Chapters 12 & 14, Chapters 6 & 24 in Allain).

• Object-Oriented Programming Techniques
  
  • 3-Tier Architecture: (Procedural apps (data stored in variables) vs OOP (creating objects that hold data).

• Functions/Methods

  • Native Code
    • 1- void Functions
    • 2-Functions that return a value
    • 3-Functions with arguments and return a value
    • Overloaded Methods
  • CLR Console version
    • 1- Void functions
    • 2-Functions that return a value
    • 3-Functions that take arguments AND return a value
  • CLR GUI version
    • 4-Introduction to Methods  (p. 348)

    • Overloaded Methods

  • Stack vs Heap
    • Stack Demo

• Classes(Custom category with methods. A class needs to initialize itself, cleanup memory, & copy itself)
  • Native Code
    • Compute Area Part 1
    • Compute Area Part 2
    • Pass by Ref summary
    • Pass by Val or Ref, Inheritance, & Polymorphism (3 projects in one)
  • CLR Console version
    • Compute Area Part 1
    • Compute Area Part 2
     
  • CLR GUI version
    • How to add a class module to your project (Instructions only Murach p.342)
    •  Introduction to Classes
    • Overloaded Constructors
    • Inheritance & Polymorphism
      

• Compute area Part 1 shows how to use a class to compute area of a room.
• Part 2 shows how to use the class three times to compute area of three rooms

• Extra Stuff
  Projects for fun

• Custom Properties
• CLR Console version
  • 6-1 Console Version
• CLR GUI version
  • Introduction to properties (p. 346)

• Working with Multiple Forms

  • Multi-form IO demo (inlcudes menus, color dialog box, and confirm delete & form closing).

• Web Browser Demo
• MapQuest Demo
• Notify icons and Google Search

• EXAM 3

• Covers Entire Course