An Internet Course In Software Development With C++ For Engineering Students

This paper discuss an experimental course in software development in C++ for graduate and undergraduate students in engineering, that was completely delivered through the Internet during the 1997-1998 time period. The course assumed no previous knowledge or background in C or C++ programming. Topics covered included: fundamental types in C++, basic operations, control structures, programming style and software craftmanship, functions, classes, constructors and destructors, object oriented analysis, object oriented design, operator overloading, inheritance, polymorphism memory management exception handling, function and class templates, and template libraries.