Make sure you have the hardware and software required for this course.
Designing Reusable Code in C++ is intended for students who

1. are comfortable working with C++ classes,
2. understand how to write constructor and destructor methods,

and

1. know how to implement dynamic data structures such as bounds-checking arrays and singly linked lists.
   

You can use either Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux machines to take this course.
The course is intended to be platform-independent. Please be sure you are aware of platform-dependent issues that may affect your compiler.