One Minute Evaluations for 4-6 November

CS 509 - Advanced Programming II

• Topic: We learned that although cool programmers use maps, the coolest programmers use functors, fun_ptrs really are fun, and stylish programmers check for NULL before deallocation.

  Question: Why is object-oriented programming soooooo bad and how is a good way to program with it if it's what you're used to?

  One minute response: Object-oriented programming techniques have their place, but their place is grossly overextended. For an alternative approach, first read Structured Programming by Dahl, Dijkstra, and Hoare, then read the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Ableson and Sussman, then read Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design by Liskov and Guttag, and finally read Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides.

• Topic: This week w talked about function pointers, function objects and classes and dynamic memory.

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• Topic: We studied about function pointers, adapters, functors.

• Topic: We talked about functors, classes, STL.

• Topic: Generic algorithms, classes, dynamic and static memory allocation.

• Topic: We talked about pointers, functions, assignment operators, copy constructors.

• Topic: Function pointers, Function objects, and a part of dynamic memory and classes.

• Topic: Discussed maps last week, this week, function pointers, function objects. Completed discussion of STL. Started with classes.

  Question: Using a function pointers, is it possible to change the behavior of a function?

  One minute response: Not in C-C++; that would require creating new functions or modifying existing functions. There are extensions to C that allow it.

• Topic: Function pointers, function objects, dynamic memory.

• Topic: We discussed extensions of the STL, functions, (how to avoid loops), avoiding dynamic memory.

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