Starting Out with C++ Brief

Tony Gaddis is the lead author of the Starting Out withseries including Starting Out with Alice, C++, Java™, Visual Basic® 2008, Programming Logic & Design, and Python. Visit the Gaddis Books website for more information on Gaddis’ titles. Gaddis teaches computer science courses at Haywood Community College in North Carolina. He previously taught programming for several corporations and government agencies, including NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Gaddis is a highly acclaimed instructor who was selected as the North Carolina Community College "Teacher of the Year" in 1994, and who received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development in 1997.

Ch 1: Introduction to Computers and Programming
Ch 2: Introduction to C++
Ch 3: Expressions and Interactivity
Ch 4: Making Decisions
Ch 5: Looping
Ch 6: Functions
Ch 7: Arrays
Ch 8: Searching and Sorting Arrays
Ch 9: Pointers
Ch 10: Characters, Strings, and the string class
Ch 11: Structured Data
Ch 12: Advanced File Operations
Ch 13: Introduction to Classes
Ch 14: More about Classes
Ch 15: Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Virtual Functions

Appendix A: The ASCII Character Set
Appendix B: Operator Precedence and Associativity

On CD:
Appendix C: Introduction to Flowcharting
Appendix D: Using UML in Class Design
Appendix E: Namespaces
Appendix F: Writing Managed C++ Code for the .NET Framework
Appendix G: Passing Command Line Arguments
Appendix H: Header File and Library Function Reference
Appendix I: Binary Numbers and Bitwise Operations
Appendix J: Multi-Source File Programs
Appendix K: Stream Member Functions for Formatting
Appendix L: Introduction to Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
Appendix M: Answers to Checkpoints
Appendix N: Answers to Odd Numbered Review Questions