C++_Lecture_Note_01.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1.11 FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal and Ada Pascal Prof. Niklaus Wirth Academic use Ada Developed under the sponsorship of U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Multitasking Named after Lady Ada Lovelace 1.12 Basic Visual Basic, Visual C++, C# and .NET BASIC Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code Mid-1960s: Prof. John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz (Dartmouth College) Visual Basic 1991 Result of Microsoft Windows graphical user interface (GUI) Developed late 1980s, early 1990s Powerful features GUI, event handling, access to Win32 API, object-oriented programming, error handling Visual Basic .NET 1.12 Basic Visual Basic, Visual C++, C# and .NET Visual C++ Microsoft’s implementation of C++ Includes extensions Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) Common library GUI, graphics, networking, multithreading, … Shared among Visual Basic, Visual C++, C# .NET platform Web-based applications Distributed to great variety of devices Cell phones, desktop computers Applications in disparate languages can communicate 1.12 Basic Visual Basic, Visual C++, C# and .NET C# Anders Hejlsberg and Scott Wiltamuth (Microsoft) Designed specifically for .NET platform Roots in C, C++ and Java Easy migration to .NET Event-driven, fully object-oriented, visual programming language Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Create, run, test and debug C# programs Rapid Application Development (RAD) Language interoperability 1.13 Key Software Trend: Object Technology Objects Reusable software components that model real world items Meaningful software units Date objects, time objects, paycheck objects, invoice objects, audio objects, video objects, file objects, record objects, etc. Any noun can be represented as an object More understandable, better organized and easier to maintain than procedural programming Favor modularity Software reuse Libraries MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) Rogue Wave 1.13 Key