Object Oriented Programming syllabus

Introduction to OOP: Limitations of Procedural Programming, Need for Object-Oriented Programming, Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming: Objects, Classes, Data Members, Methods, Messages, Data Encapsulation, Data Abstraction and Information Hiding, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Static and Dynamic Binding, Message Passing. Class: Creating a Class, Visibility/Access Modifiers, Encapsulation.

Methods: Adding a Method to a Class, Returning a Value, Adding a Method That Takes Parameters, The this Keyword, Method Overloading, Object Creation, Using Object as a Parameter, Returning Objects, Array of Objects. Memory Allocation: new, Static Data Members, Static Methods. Constructors: Introduction, Use of Constructors, Characteristics of Constructors, Types of Constructors, Constructor Overloading. Garbage Collection: Destructors and Finalizers. Represent a vector using class and include appropriate methods to

Inheritance: Introduction, Need of Inheritance, Types of Inheritance, Benefits of Inheritance, Cost of Inheritance, Constructors in Derived Classes, Method Overriding, Abstract Classes and Interfaces. Polymorphism and Software Reuse: Introduction, Types of Polymorphism, Compile-Time and Run-Time Polymorphism, Mechanisms for Software Reuse, Efficiency and Polymorphism.

Exception Handling: Errors, Types of Errors, Exceptions and Their Types, Exception-Handling Fundamentals, Uncaught Exceptions, Using try and catch, Multiple catch Clauses, Nested try Statements, User- Defined Exceptions using throw. Generics: Introduction, Introduction to Language-Specific Collection Interfaces: List Interface and Set Interface, Collection Classes: ArrayList Class and LinkedList Class.

File Handling: Introduction; Concepts of Streams, Stream Classes, Byte Stream Classes, Character Stream Classes, Using Streams and Other Useful I/O Classes, Using the File Class, Input/output Exceptions, Creation of Files, Reading/Writing Characters, Reading/Writing Bytes, Handling Primitive Data Types, Concatenating and Buffering Files, Random Access Files. Design Patterns: Introduction, Types of Design Patterns, Adapter, Singleton, Iterator.