ECE 2036 - Engineering Software Design

ECE 2036 is a 3 credit ECE lecture class. It is an elective for electrical engineering majors and a requirement computer engineering majors. It is best summarized as an introduction to C++ and embedded systems programming.

Topic List

• Review of C basic syntax, compilation, linking, libraries, etc.
• Defining and implementing classes, constructors, deconstructors, etc.
• Member functions, virtual functions, pure virtual functions
• Argument passing variations (by value, by pointer, by reference)
• Managing dynamic memory (new, delete)
• Inheritance and subclassing
• Using common tools, gdb, make, gprof, valgrind, emacs, etc.
• Floating point precision and numerical analysis
• Introduction to templates, including data structures and algorithms in the Standard Template Library
• Parallel processing and concurrency
• Exceptions
• Smart pointers

Workload

Typical of other lecture classes, weekly homework assignments and occasional exams. A number of new topics, i.e. GNU/Linux systems, are shown in the course.

Registration

ECE 2036 is not a linked course.