Addis Ababa university
College of Natural and Computational Science
Department of Computer Science
Course Title: Fundamental of Programming II
Course Code: CoSc 2111
Prerequisite(s): Fundamentals of Programming I
Course Objectives & Competences:
Upon successful completion of the course, students should:
Describe and implement the concepts of modular programming (functions) in solving
problems.
Describe and implement the concepts of Structures in solving problems.
Describe how to manage files using C++.
Have an understanding of the concept and application of iteration and recursion in
program development;
Be able to uncover and reason about repetitive aspects of a computing problem, and to
develop appropriate recursive or iterative solutions.
Understand the specification of a program and its implementation as separate, but related
design problems.
Chapter 1: Functions
1.1. Introduction to Modular Programming (Functions)
1.2. Declaration of function
1.3. Definition of functions
1.4. Calling functions
1.5. Scope of Variables
1.6. Function Arguments
1.7. Return Values
1.8. Default Parameters
1.9. Parameters passing
1.9.1. Call by value
1.9.2. Call by reference
1.10. Function Overloading
1.11. Recursive function
1.12. Inline function
Chapter 2: Structures
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Overview of Structure
2.2.1. Declaring structure
2.2.2. Defining structure in structure
2.2.3. Initializing structure
2.2.4. Manipulating structure
2.3. Array of structure
2.4. Nested structure
2.5. Structure, Reference and Pointer
2.6. Passing structure to function
2.6.1. Passing value of structure to a function
2.6.2. Passing address of a structure to a function
Chapter 3 : File Management
1.1. Streams and Files
1.2. Text and Binary Files
1.3. Text File processing
1.4. Binary File processing
1.5. Random Access Files
1.6. Buffers and Synchronization
Template
Text books & References:
Walter Savitch, “Problem solving with C++ - The Object of programming”, Menlo Park:
Addison-Wesley, 1996.
Dietel&Dietel, “C++ How To Program”, Third Edition, Prentice – Hall, 2003
