Starting Out with C++: International Version: Early Objects

Tony Gaddis’s accessible, step-by-step presentation helps beginning students understand the important details necessary to become skilled programmers at an introductory level. Gaddis motivates the study of both programming skills and the C++ programming language by presenting all the details needed to understand the “how” and the “why”—but never losing sight of the fact that most beginners struggle with this material. His approach is both gradual and highly accessible, ensuring that students understand the logic behind developing high-quality programs.In Starting Out with C++: Early Objects, Gaddis covers objects and classes early after functions and before arrays and pointers. As with all Gaddis texts, clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises appear in every chapter. This text is intended for either a one-semester accelerated introductory course or a traditional two-semester sequence covering C++ programming.

Ch1:Introduction to Computers and Programming

Ch2:Introduction to C++

Ch3:Expressions and Interactivity

Ch4:Making Decisions

Ch5:Looping

Ch6:Functions

Ch7:Introduction to Classes and Objects

Ch8:Arrays

Ch9:Searching, Sorting, and Algorithm Analysis

Ch10:Pointers

Ch11:More About Classes and Object-Oriented Programming

Ch12:More About Characters, Strings, and the string Class

Ch13:Advanced File and I/O Operations

Ch14:Recursion

Ch15:Polymorphism and Virtual Functions

Ch16:Exceptions, Templates, and the Standard Template Library (STL)

Ch17:Linked Lists

Ch18:Stacks and Queues

Ch19:Binary Trees

Appendix A: The ASCII Character Set

Appendix B: Operator Precedence and Associativity

Index

Student CD

The following appendices are on the accompanying Student CD.

Appendix C: A Brief Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (revised)

Appendix D: Using UML in Class Design

Appendix E: Namespaces

Appendix F: Passing Command Line Arguments

Appendix G: Header File and Library Function Reference

Appendix H: Binary Numbers and Bitwise Operations

Appendix I: C++ Casts and Run-Time Type Identification

Appendix J: Multi-Source File Programs

Appendix K: Multiple and Virtual Inheritance (new)

Appendix L: Introduction to the MinGW C++ Compiler and the wxDev-C++ IDE (new)

Appendix M: Introduction to Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition (new)

Appendix N: .NET and Managed C++

Appendix O: Introduction to Flowcharting

Appendix P: Answers to Checkpoints

Appendix Q: Answers to Odd-Numbered Review Questions