• Candidates with Computer Science or Electrical Engineering degree or equivalent experience and pursuing a career in Robotics.

• Must have degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent ex
• One or more years technical experience
• Must have some basic understanding of software development

Course Outline:

Linux Fundamentals

• Set Up and Overview
• Install virtual machine running Ubuntu Linux
• Linux Fundamentals
• System Administration Basics
• Shell Scripting Overview
• Networking Services

Using Git

Introduction to Git

• What is a version control system (VCS)?
• What is Git?
• Choosing a default git editor
• Understanding repositories
• Cloning a remote repository

Using Git

• git add and git commit
• Commit messages
• Understanding markdown

Git Status

• git push and git pull
• git log

Creating Branches

• Branches
• Feature branch development
• Feature branch workflow
• Comparing branches
• Merge requests
• Stashing
• Fixing merge conflicts
• Rebasing
• Code review and merges

C++ Programming Fundamentals

Structure of C++ Program

• Preprocessor directive
• Comments in C++ code
• Function: main()
• Using cin and cout
• First C++ program

Variables and Constants

• Declaring and Initializing variables
• Built-in C++ primitive types
• Size of variables
• Defining constants

Arrays and Vectors

• Declaring and initializing Arrays
• Accessing and modifying array elements
• Multi-dimensional arrays
• Declaring and initializing Vectors
• Accessing and modifying vector elements

Statement and Operators

• Expression and statements
• Assignment operators
• Arithmetic operators
• Relational operators
• Logical operators
• Operator precedence

Controlling Program Flow

• If statement
• If else statements
• Nested if statements
• Switch-case statement
• Conditional operator
• For loop
• Range-based for loop
• While loop
• Do while loop
• Continue and break
• Nested loops

Characters and Strings

• Character functions
• C-style strings
• Working with C-style strings
• C++ strings
• Working with C++ strings

Functions

• What is a function?
• Function definition
• Function prototype
• Function parameters and return statement
• Default argument values
• Overloading functions
• Passing arrays to functions
• Pass by reference
• Scope rules
• How do function calls work?
• Inline functions
• Recursive functions

Pointers and References

• What is a pointer?
• Declaring pointers
• Accessing the pointer address and storing address in a pointer
• Dereferencing a pointer
• Dynamic memory allocation
• Arrays and pointers relationship
• Pointer arithmetic
• Const and pointers
• Passing pointers to functions
• Potential pointer pitfalls
• What is a reference?
• L-values and R-values

OOP – Classes and Objects

• What is Object Oriented Programming?
• What are classes and objects?
• Declaring a class and creating objects
• Access class members
• Public and private members
• Implementing member methods
• Constructors and Destructors
• Overloading constructors
• Constructor initialization lists
• Delegating Constructors
• Constructor parameters and default values
• Copy Constructor
• Shallow copying with copy constructor
• Deep copying with copy constructor
• Move Constructors
• The ‘this’ pointer
• Using const with classes
• Static class members
• Structs v/s classes
• Friends of a class

Operator Overloading

• What is operator overloading?
• Overloading the assignment operator (copy)
• Overloading the assignment operator (move)
• Overloading operators as member functions
• Overloading operators as global functions
• Overloading the stream insertion and extraction operators

Inheritance

• What is inheritance?
• Terminology and notation
• Inheritance v/s Composition
• Deriving classes from existing classes
• Protected members and class access
• Constructors and Destructors
• Passing arguments to base class constructors
• Copy/move constructors and operator = with derived classes
• Redefining base class methods
• Multiple inheritance

Polymorphism

• What is polymorphism?
• Using a base class pointer
• Virtual functions
• Virtual destructors
• Using the override specifier
• Using the final specifier
• Using base class references
• Pure virtual functions and abstract classes

Smart Pointers

• Some issues with raw pointers
• What is a smart pointer? Ownership and RAll
• Unique pointers
• Shared pointers
• Weak pointers
• Custom deletes

Exception Handling in C++

• Basic concepts and simple example: Divide by zero
• Throwing an exception from a function
• Handling multiple exceptions
• Stack unwinding and how it works
• Creating user-defined exception classes
• Class level exceptions
• The C++ std::exception class hierarchy

I/O and Streams

• Files, streams and I/O
• Stream manipulators
• Stream manipulators: boolean
• Stream manipulators: integers
• Stream manipulators: floats
• Stream manipulators: align and fill
• Reading from a text file

Standard Template Library (STL)

• What is STL?
• Generic programming with macros
• Generic programming with function templates
• Generic programming with class templates
• Creating a generic array template class
• Introduction to STL containers
• Introduction to STL iterators
• Introduction to STL algorithms
• Sequence container: Array
• Sequence container: Vector
• Sequence container: Deque

Lambda Expressions

• Motivation
• Structure of a lambda expression
• Stateless lambda expressions
• Stateful lambda expressions
• Lambdas and STL
• All these sections will include code samples, exercises and quizzes

Google Test

• What is unit testing?
• Why unit test?
• Writing useful unit tests
• Understanding gconv/lconv coverage reports
• Basics of GTest (basic test with basic EXPECTs)
• EXPECT vs ASSERT
• Testing floating point numbers
• Testing for exceptions
• Testing classes with “friend tests”
• Using gtest test fixtures
• All these sections will include code samples, exercises and quizzes

DevOps Toolkit

• DevOps Overview
• Containers with Docker
• Understanding Continuous Integration
• Understanding Continuous Delivery and Deployment

 Cloud Computing Foundations (Azure)

• Cloud Computing Overview
• Introduction to Azure
• Azure compute
• Azure networking
• Data in Azure
• Security in Azure
• Azure AD, Roles
• Messaging in Azure

Project & Use Case

• Project Overview
• Complete projects to get experience and practice
• Industry Use Case Studies

Training material provided: Yes (Digital format)