Beginning C++

by Ivor Horton

Overview

Beginning C++ is a tutorial for beginners in C++ and discusses a subset of C++ that is suitable for beginners. The language syntax corresponds to the C++14 standard. This book is environment neutral and does not presume any specific operating system or program development system. There is no assumption of prior programming knowledge.

All language concepts that are explained in the book are illustrated with working program examples. Most chapters include exercises for you to test your knowledge. Code downloads are provided for examples from the text and solutions to the exercises and there is an additional download for a more substantial project for you to try when you have finished the book.

This book introduces the elements of the C++ standard library that provide essential support for the language syntax that is discussed. While the Standard Template Library (STL) is not discussed to a significant extent, a few elements from the STL that are important to the notion of modern C++ are introduced and applied.

Beginning C++ is based on and supersedes Ivor Horton’s previous book, Beginning ANSI C++.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484200070
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	11/12/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	594
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Ivor Horton is self-employed in consultancy and writes programming tutorials. He worked for IBM for many years and holds a bachelor's degree, with honors, in mathematics. Horton's experience at IBM includes programming in most languages (like assembler and high-level languages on a variety of machines), real-time programming, and designing and implementing real-time closed loop industrial control systems. He has extensive experience teaching programming to engineers and scientists (Fortran, PL/1, APL, etc.). Horton is an expert in mechanical, process, and electronic CAD systems; mechanical CAM systems; and DNC/CNC systems.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Basic Ideas

Chapter 2: Introducing Fundamental Types of Data

Chapter 3: Working Fundamental Types

Chapter 4: Making Decisions

Chapter 5: Arrays and Loops

Chapter 6: Pointers and References

Chapter 7: Working with Strings

Chapter 8: Defining Functions

Chapter 9: Lambda Expressions

Chapter 10: Preprocessor directives

Chapter 11: Defining your own Data Types

Chapter 12: Operator Overloading

Chapter 13: Inheritance

Chapter 14: Virtual Functions and Polymorphism

Chapter 15: Runtime Errors and Exceptions

Chapter 16: Class Templates

Chapter 17: File Input and Output