COS3711
Advanced Programming

COS3711 Study Guide

1.3. Libraries and frameworks (and platforms)

1.4. Design patterns and anti-patterns

1.5. Serializer Pattern

2. Meta-Objects, Properties and Reflective Programming

2.1. Qt object system

2.2. Using QVariant, QMetaType, and Q_ENUM

2.3. Static variables

2.4. Debugging in Qt Creator

2.5. Practical work

3. Models and Views

3.1. Qt model/view programming

3.2. Smart pointers

3.3. Practical work

4. Validation and Regular Expressions

4.1. Input masks, validators, and subclassing QValidator

4.2. Regular expressions

4.3. Practical work

5.1. What is XML?

5.3. Using Qt's XML streaming

5.4. Practical work

5.5. Working with XML

6. More Design Patterns

6.1. Abstract Factory (Creational pattern)

6.2. Façade (Structural pattern)

6.3. Factory Method (Creational pattern)

6.4. Memento (Behavioural pattern)

6.5. Singleton (Creational pattern)

6.6. Strategy (Behavioural pattern)

8. Networking and Cloud Computing

8.1. Networking

8.2. Cloud computing