Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What will we do in this course?

• Are we ready?

Objectives

• Provide an overview of the course.

• Ensure everyone has their environments setup.

Overview/Motivation

A great deal of high-performance software is written in C, C++, and Fortran. Running programs written in these languages as more than “black boxes” will require some knowledge of the languages they are written in.

In this workshop we will write a C++ program starting from an empty text file which incorporates many of the main concepts of C++. In doing so we will gain a foundation to allow us to start understanding other people’s C++ programs.

We will cover concepts such as object oriented programming, polymorphism, interfaces, and templates. Interfaces being a common, but certainly not the only, way to extend functionality in C++ programs and libraries. The idea of interfaces will be introduced during the ‘Abstract classes’ episode towards the end of the workshop.

Are we all setup?

Before we begin make sure you have completed the steps in the setup page. If you have had difficulty with any part of them, now is the time to let us know and we will help you solve them.

Key Points