You Can Program in C++ (eBook)

Francis Glassborow was chairman of the ACCU (Association of C & C++ Users) and edited the groups' principle publication throughout the 90's. He has published reviews of most C++ books on the market but doesn't confine his wisdom nor interest just to this language. He was a regular columnist for .EXE. Until this year he chaired an annual Programmers conference that regularly attracts the heavy-weights in C++ as well as other languages. He heads the UK delegation to the ISO working group committees for C and C++ and is therefore considered to be one of the world's leading authorities. He is the originator of much of the material aimed at making C++ easier to learn in the next Standard. His first book, "You Can Do It" is a motivational book teaching basic programming constructs to people with no background. It published with Wiley in 2003.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

C++ Overview.

1. Getting Started.

2. Fundamental Types, Operators and Simple Variables.

3. Looping and Making Decisions.

4. Namespaces & the C++ Standard Library.

5. Writing Functions in C++.

6. Behaviour, Sequence Points & Order of Evaluation.

7. Generic Functions.

8. User Defined Types, Part 1: typedef and enum.

9. User Defined Types, Part 2: Simple classes (value types).

10. User Defined Types, Part 3: Simple classes (homogeneous entity types).

11. Pointers, Smart Pointers, Iterators & Dynamic Instances.

12. User Defined Types, Part 4: Class Hierarchies, Polymorphism, Inheritance and Subtypes.

13. Dynamic Object Creation and Polymorphic Objects.

14. Streams, Files & Persistence.

15. Exceptions.

16. Overloading Operators & Conversion Operators.

17. Containers, Iterators and Algorithms.

18. Something Old, Something New.

Appendix A: Those Who Went Before.

References.

Index.

"the book is a
self-contained course, and as such, good value." (Visual Systems
Journal, September 2006)