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IIT Bombay offers Free Online Course on Advanced C++ via Swayam and Spoken Tutorial Project

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IIT Bombay offers Free Online Course on Advanced C++ via Swayam and Spoken Tutorial Project

IIT Bombay invites applications for Free Online Course on Advanced C++ via Swayam. C Language helps design provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions. C is one of the most widely used programming language and there are very few computer architectures for which a C compiler does not exist. Thus, the course will help in learning the language extensively.

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Who can enrol in the course?

This is a UG-PG Computer Science level course. UG/PG CSE/CS/IT students and anyone who wishes to learning advanced programming can enrol in the course. The only prerequisite is you should have a working PC/Laptop and active internet. This Elective course has a duration of 4 weeks and is an ongoing course. This course comprises 10 audio-video spoken tutorials, using which you can self-learn Advanced C++ programming language with ease.

Who will teach this Advanced C++ course?

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Prof Kannan M Moudgalya has created and offered the course videos. Kannan M Moudgalya has an MTech and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Rice University. He has obtained a BTech from IIT Madras. He is currently working as a core professor at IIT Bombay in the Chemical Engineering Department. Further, he has been teaching this course via the Spoken Tutorial Project.

The Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

How to obtain a certificate from IIT Bombay?

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The course is free to enrol and learn. But it does not provide any credits or certificate. Alternatively, the Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops on C and C++ and other FLOSS using spoken tutorials. It also gives certificates to those who pass an online test.

How to enrol in the course?

You can enrol in the course here or follow these instructions.

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Step 1: First of all install the compilers by following the steps given in this sheet. This sheet gives the steps to install the gcc & g++ compilers on Linux and Windows OS. Open the sheet, read the instructions for your OS and install the compilers on your machine. Cross-verify to confirm successful installation. For Windows OS, please ensure Notepad ++ is also installed on the machine.

Step 2: Read this sheet. This sheet explains how to learn from spoken tutorials. This sheet also mentions some important information about the text editors while coding, how to use the command prompt (in Windows OS), how to use the Code Files, how to do the Assignments, etc. Read this sheet carefully and make a note of all the information, before you begin.

Step 3: Follow the side-by-side learning methodology while learning from spoken tutorials - watch the video, listen to the instructions, pause the video, try out the command on your system. You should get the exact same results as shown in the video. If successful, proceed with the video. Else, rewind and watch the video again and replicate the commands shown. Complete all the videos in the given sequence one by one.

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The Assignment for each tutorial is for your self-assessment only. Do not upload it anywhere for evaluation.

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