Ivor Horton's Beginning ANSI C++: The Complete LanguageWELCOME ro Beginning ANSI C++: The Complete Language, Third Edition. This is a tuto rial guide to Standard C++. During the course of the book you'll cover all the funda mentals of syntax, grammar, object-oriented capability, and the principal features of the standard library. You'll soon gain enough programming know-how to write your own C++ applications. Why C++? C++ is arguably the most widely used programming language in existence. It's used in professional application development because of its immense flexibility, power, and efficiency. For high-performance code across a vast range of programming contexts, C++ is unrivalled. It's also much more accessible than many people assume. With the right guidance, getting a grip on C++ is easier than you might imagine. By developing your C++ skills, you'll learn a language already used by millions, and you'll acquire a new tool in your programming toolbox that is likely to be more powerful than any of the others. The Standard for C++ In 1998, the International Standard for C++, ISO/IEC 14882, was finally approved and adopted by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS). This was the culmination of nine years of work by a joint ANSI/ISO committee whose objective was to establish a single definition of the C++ programming language that would be accepted worldwide. |
Contents
Basic Ideas | 1 |
Why Is C++ Such a Great Language? | 5 |
Keywords | 12 |
C++ Source Characters | 20 |
Documenting Your Programs | 27 |
Basic Data Types and Calculations | 35 |
Using Variables | 46 |
The Assignment Operator | 56 |
Defining Your Own Data Types | 515 |
Private Members of a Class | 537 |
The Pointer Named this | 550 |
Static Members of a Class | 565 |
Class Operations | 577 |
Controlling Access to a Class | 595 |
References in Classes | 611 |
Operator Overloading | 617 |
The const Keyword | 62 |
FloatingPoint Operations | 70 |
Working with Characters | 81 |
Functional Notation for Initial Values | 87 |
More on Handling Basic Data Types | 91 |
Finding Out About Types | 99 |
Enumerated Data Types | 119 |
Declaring External Variables | 134 |
Choices and Decisions in Your Programs | 139 |
The ifelse Statement | 153 |
The switch Statement | 167 |
Repeating One or More Statements | 177 |
The dowhile Loop | 182 |
Nested Loops | 199 |
Breaking Out of a Loop | 207 |
Summary | 213 |
Arrays and Strings | 215 |
Multidimensional Arrays | 231 |
A Better Class of String | 240 |
Arrays of Type string | 275 |
Pointers | 279 |
Initializing Pointer | 287 |
Constant Pointers and Pointers to Constants | 299 |
Dynamic Memory Allocation | 314 |
Summary | 327 |
Programming with Functions | 329 |
Passing Arguments to a Function | 340 |
Default Argument Values | 359 |
Static Variables | 370 |
More on Functions | 377 |
Pointers to Functions | 398 |
Recursion | 406 |
Summary | 416 |
Program Files and Preprocessing Directives | 419 |
Namespace | 431 |
Preprocessing Your Source Code | 449 |
Logical Preprocessing Directives | 461 |
Debugging Methods | 468 |
Summary | 478 |
Creating Your Own Data Types | 481 |
Understanding Unions | 500 |
Exercises | 513 |
Summary | 664 |
Inheritance | 667 |
The Access Level of Inherited Class Members | 681 |
Destructors Under Inheritance | 695 |
Converting Between Related Class Types | 711 |
Virtual Functions and Polymorphism | 715 |
The Cost of Polymorphism | 744 |
Identifying Types at Runtime | 757 |
Pointers to Class Members | 759 |
Summary | 769 |
Program Errors and Exception Handling | 771 |
Class Objects As Exceptions | 785 |
Functions That Throw Exceptions | 800 |
Summary | 809 |
Using Class Templates To Create Families of Classes | 811 |
Explicit Template Instantiation | 844 |
Special Cases | 846 |
More Advanced Class Templates | 859 |
Input and Output Operations | 863 |
Stream Classes | 866 |
File Streams | 874 |
Unformatted Stream Operations | 890 |
Using Binary Mode Stream Operations | 896 |
ReadWrite Operations on a Stream | 906 |
String Streams | 914 |
Summary | 936 |
Introducing the Standard Template Library | 939 |
Using the vector Container | 947 |
Creating Your Own Iterators | 969 |
The list Container | 984 |
The Associative Containers | 993 |
Performance and Specialization | 1004 |
Appendix A ASCII Codes | 1009 |
Appendix B C++ Keywords | 1013 |
Standard Library Headers | 1015 |
General Purpose Algorithms | 1020 |
Operator Precedence and Associativity | 1021 |
Appendix E Understanding Binary and Hexadecimal Numbers | 1025 |
Hexadecimal Numbers | 1027 |
Appendix F Example Project | 1033 |
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