C++ Syllabus/Topics/Roadmap for Beginners
C++ is a compiled language so you must also learn about the compiler you are using because not all compilers will give the same result. C++ codes run from top to bottom serially. Also, check the version of your compiler and C++ version. You cannot use all C++ features if the C++ version/compiler version you have don’t support them.
Whatever programming language you learn there are certain things you must know. I have included a few terms you must look into and understand because these terms are used in almost all programming languages. For example, identifiers. Identifiers are can refer to anything like variables, function names, class names, etc. Because these names are used to identify.
Essential concepts/terms you need to know before learning any new programming language:
1. Keywords
2. Identifiers
3. Literals
4. Operators
5. Declarations
6. Initializations
7. Assignment
8. Expressions
9. Statements
10. Conditional statements/control flow
11. Iterating statements/loops
12. Exceptions
13. Comments
14. Punctuations
Basic topics for C++
Now here are the topics that you need to know if you are planning to learn C++.
1. Keywords
2. Comments
3. Punctuations
4. Data types and sizes
5. Variables / Identifiers
6. Literals
7. Declarations and Definitions
8. Ways to Declare identifiers
9. Initializing types
10. Operators
a) Assignment operator
b) Arithmetics operator
c) Increment and decrement operator
d) Comparison operator
e) Logical operator
f) Member access operator
g) More operators on the www.cppreference.com site
h) Special operators like — delete, sizeof, typeid, new, etc.
i) Operator precedence
j) Operator overloading
11. Basic I/O — std::cout(), std::cin(), std::getline(std::cin, varname);
12. Type conversion ( int to float)
13. Kinds of expressions (a =b+c)
14. References and pointers
15. Control flow statements
a) If statements
b) If-else statements
c) If-elseif statements
d) Switch statements
e) Ternary statements
f) Nested conditional statements
16. Iteration statement
a) For loop
b) Range for loop
c) while
d) Do-while
e) Break, continue, goto, return
f) Nested loop
17. Function
a) Function Define
b) Function definition/initialization
c) Functions declaration and definition rules
d) Functions argument
e) Function parameter
f) Function default arguments
g) Function return type
h) Function calling ways
i) Recurrison
j) Function overloading
k) Lambda expressions
18. The “main()” function
19. Scope and lifetime of variables, functions, etc.
20. #include
21. Array
22. Class and objects
a) Class types
b) Class access modifiers
c) Class declaration
d) Class members
e) Member access
f) Class constructor
g) Class destructor
h) Nested class
i) Method/function override
j) Method/function overloading
k) Class function definition outside class
l) Class friend declaration
m) Object creation
n) Using objects
23. String and string library
24. Enum
25. Union
26. Struct
27. Templates
a) declaration and initialization
b) Template parameters and arguments
c) Class Template
d) Function Template
e) Variable Template
28. Exceptions
a) Throw-expression
b) Try-catch block
29. Preprocessors
30. Standard libraries
There is more to these topics. I will soon add more in-depth posts regarding these topics individually. Hope this helps.
