CS- 403 – Object Oriented Technology

Unit I

Abstract data types, Objects and classes, Attributes and Methods, Objects as software units,

Encapsulation and Information hiding, Objects instantiations and interactions, Object lifetime, Static

and dynamic objects, global and local objects, Metaclass, Modeling the real world objects.

Unit II

Relationships between classes, Association of objects, Types of Association, Recursive

Association, Multiplicities, Navigability, Named association, Aggregation of objects. Types of

Aggregation, Delegation, Modeling Association and Aggregation.

Unit III

Inheritance and Polymorphism, Types of polymorphism, Static and dynamic polymorphism,

Operator and Method overloading, Inherited methods, Redefined methods, the protected interface,

Abstract methods and classes, Public and protected properties, Private operations, Disinheritance,

Multiple inheritance.

Unit IV

Container Classes, Container types, typical functions and iterator methods, Heterogeneous

containers, Persistent objects, stream, and files, Object oriented programming languages,

Unit V

Study of C++/Java as Object-oriented programming language.

References:

1. David Parsons; Object oriented programming with C++; BPB publication

2. Object oriented programming in C++ by Robert Lafore: Galgotia

3. Balagurusamy; Object oriented programming with C++; TMH

4. Java Complete Reference: Herbert Schildt, Mc Graw Hill

5. Hubbard; Programming in C++ (Schaum); TMH

6. Mastering C++ by Venugopal, TMH

List of experiments (Expandable):

Programming assignments may be given to students so that they can better understand the

concepts of object oriented programming such as objects, classes, class-relationships, association,

aggregation, inheritance, polymorphism etc.