COMP 238 - Object-Oriented Programming

3 Credits: (3 lecture)

Course Description
This second-level course emphasizes the concepts of object-oriented design & programming and includes a thorough conceptual study of encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism in a primary object-oriented programming language. Various implementations of the object-oriented paradigm in other programming languages are also examined along with operator overloading, templates/generics, exception handling and unit testing.  

Note Spring semester only.

Prerequisite COMP 230 or COMP 237 or permission of the instructor.

A. Develop (design, implement, and test) classes that demonstrate encapsulation and information hiding.  

B. Implement “is-a” relationships in a class hierarchy by using inheritance. 

C. Describe the differences between static and dynamic polymorphism. 

D. Extend the applicability of functions and classes by using templates / generics. 

E. Overload operators when implementing a class. 

F. Improve the reliability of programs through appropriate exception handling.  

G. Apply unit testing to ensure the reliability of class implementations. 

H. Contrast the mechanisms used to implement object-oriented programming in two different object-oriented programming languages. 

Content
A. Object-oriented design 

B. Encapsulation and information-hiding 

C. Inheritance and class hierarchies 

D. Polymorphism and abstract classes 

E. Templates / generics 

F. Operator overloading 

G. Exception handling 

H. Unit testing 

I. Object-oriented programming in various languages 

Student Evaluation
The student’s final grade in the course will be based on a minimum of two exams and a minimum of six projects.