The slides for Laboroatory 0 are here (or the pdf file) and some source code is linked to in the left-hand menu. Also available is a Introductory Project Manual.

In this lab, you will:

1. Meet the laboratory instructor and some of the laboratory teaching assistants.
2. Review the difference between pass-by-value and pass-by-reference.
3. Get you logged onto the Linux server ecelinux.uwaterloo.ca .
4. Give you a quick introduction to Unix shell commands.
5. Create a "Hello world!" program on ecelinux.
6. Create a project in Visual Studio.
7. Get started with a simple Array class with three member functions:
1. Array( int )
2. int size() const
3. void append( int )
8. Create an executable file in the project and compile it.
9. Discuss how to read compile-time error messages to fix your code.
10. We will correct a weakness in the append function.
11. We will implement three more functions:
1. int capacity() const
2. bool empty() const
3. bool full() const
4. void clear()
12. We will then implement four statistical functions:
1. int sum() const
2. double average() const
3. double variance() const
4. double std_dev() const
13. Deallocating memory with the destructor ~Array().
14. Access entries of the array with operator[].
15. Implement a swap function void swap( Array & ).
16. Implement the copy constructor Array( Array const & ).
17. Implement the assignment operator operator= for this Array class.
18. Discuss move constructors and move assignment operators.
19. Discuss why we need templates, how templates work, and update the class for templates.
20. A quick review as to why pass-by-constant-reference is useful in C++.
21. A discussion of testing your code and the testing environment we provide you.
22. Creating and running your own test scripts.
23. Copying everything back into ecelinux.uwaterloo.ca.
24. A discussion on project submissions.
25. A quick look at recursive functions in C++.