Table of Contents

The Basics.- Honing Your Tools.- Reading C++ Code.- Integer Expressions.- Strings.- Simple Input.- Error Messages.- For Loops.- Formatted Output.- Arrays and Vectors.- Increment and Decrement.- Conditions and Logic.- Compound Statements.- to File I/O.- The Map Data Structure.- Type Synonyms.- Characters.- Character Categories.- Case-Folding.- Writing Functions.- Function Arguments.- Using Algorithms.- Overloading Function Names.- Big and Little Numbers.- Very Big and Very Little Numbers.- Documentation.- Project 1 : Body-Mass Index.- Custom Types.- Custom Types.- Overloading Operators.- Custom I/O Operators.- Assignment and Initialization.- Writing Classes.- More About Member Functions.- Access Levels.- to Object-Oriented Programming.- Inheritance.- Virtual Functions.- Classes and types.- Declarations and Definitions.- Using Multiple Source Files.- Function objects.- Useful algorithms.- Iterators.- Exceptions.- More operators.- Project 2: Fixed-point numbers.- Generic Programing.- Function templates.- Class templates.- Template Specialization.- Partial Specialization.- Names and Namespaces.- Containers.- International Characters.- Locales and Facets.- Text I/O.- Project 3: Currency type.- Real Programing.- Pointers.- Dynamic Memory.- Exception-Safety.- Old-Fashioned arrays.- Smart Pointers.- Working with Bits.- Enumerations.- Multiple inheritance.- Traits and Policies.- Names and Templates.- Overloaded Functions.- Metaprogramming.- Project 4: Calculator.

About the Author

Ray Lischner has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Caltech and a master's in computer science from Oregon State University. He worked as a software developer for a dozen years, at big and small companies across the U.S., using PL/I, C, C++, Delphi, Smalltalk, and various assembly languages on both large and small systems. He has been self-employed as a consultant, trainer, and author for the last 10 years. Ray taught computer science at Oregon State University for several years and specialized in teaching introductory computer programming. He taught courses in C and C++ and software engineering.