C & C++ Code Capsules

Foreword, Bruce Eckel.


Preface.


C++: The Making of a Standard. An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup.
I. Preliminaries.

1. A Better C.


A Tale Of Two Languages. Incremental Journey. The Type System. Function Prototypes. Type-safe Linkage. References. Type-safe I/O. Standard Streams. Formatting. Manipulators. Function Overloading and Function Templates. Operator Overloading. Inline Functions. Default Arguments. new and delete. Statement Declarations. Standard Library Features. C Compatibility. Summary.

2. Pointers.


Programming on the Edge. The Basics. Pointer Arithmetic. Pass-By-Reference Semantics. Generic Pointers. const Pointers. Pointers and One-Dimensional Arrays. Arrays as Parameters. Arrays of Strings. Pointers and Multidimensional Arrays. Higher and Deeper. Pointers to Functions. Pointers to Member Functions. Encapsulation and Incomplete Types. Summary.

3. The Preprocessor.


The #include Directive. Other Preprocessor Directives. Predefined Macros. Conditional Compilation. Preprocessing Operators. Implementing assert. Macro Magic. Character Sets, Trigraphs, and Digraphs. Phases of Translation. Summary.

4. The Standard C Library, Part I.


For the Adequate Programmer. . . . .

5. The Standard C Library, Part II.


For the Polished Programmer. . . . . Appendix 5.1: Character Sets. Code Pages. Character Set Standards. ISO 10646. Unicode.

6. The Standard C Library, Part III.


For the Complete Programmer. . . . . . . . va_list's As Arguments. An Application. Conclusion. Appendix 6.1: Floating-point Number Systems.

II. Key Concepts.

7. Abstraction.


Data Abstraction. Operator Overloading. Concrete Data Types. Type Abstraction. Function Abstraction. Summary.

8. Templates.


Generic Programming. Function Templates. Class Templates. Template Parameters. Template Specialization. Summary.

9. Bit Manipulation.


Bitwise Operators. Accessing Individual Bits. Large Bitsets. Bit Strings. Wish List. The bitset Template. The vector Template Specialization. Summary.

10. Conversions and Casts.


Integral Promotion. Demotions. Arithmetic Conversions. Function Prototypes. Explicit Conversions. Function-style Casts. Const Correctness. User-Defined Conversions. Beefing up operator[]. New-Style Casts. Summary.

11. Visibility.


What's In a Name? Scope. Minimal Scoping. Class Scope. Nested Classes. Local Classes. Classic Namespaces. Namespace Scope. Lifetime. Lifetime of Temporaries. Linkage. Type-safe Linkage. "Language" Linkage. Summary.

12. Control Structures.


Structured Programming. Branching. Nonlocal Branching. Signals. Summary. References.

13. Exceptions.


Error Handling Alternatives. Stack Unwinding. Catching Exceptions. Standard Exceptions. Resource Management. Constructors and Exceptions. Memory Management. Exception Specifications. An Error-Handling Strategy. Summary.

14. Object-oriented Programming.


Inheritance. Heterogeneous Collections. Virtual Functions and Polymorphism. Abstract Base Classes. Case Study: A Framework for Object Persistence. Database Access. Mapping Objects to Relational Schema. PFX Architecture. A Code Walkthrough. Summary.

III. Leveraging the Standard Library.

15. Algorithms.


Complexity. Generic Algorithms. Function Objects. Function Taxonomy. Function Object Adapters. Algorithm Taxonomy. Summary. References.

16. Containers and Iterators.


Standard Containers. Iterators. Iterator Taxonomy. Special-Purpose Iterators. Container Adapters. Associative Containers. Applications. Non-STL Containers. Summary.

17. Text Processing.


scanf. printf. Substrings. The Standard C++ String Class. String Streams. Wide Strings. Summary.

18. File Processing.


Filters. Binary Files. Record Processing. Temporary Files. Portability. POSIX. File Descriptors. Copying Files via Descriptors. Reading Directory Entries. Redirecting Standard Error. Encapsulating Directory Operations. Summary.

19. Time and Date Processing.


Julian Day Encoding. Date Classes for Real Work. Calculating the Week of the Year. Summary. Reference.

20. Dynamic Memory Management.


Ragged Arrays. Using the Heap in Standard C. The C++ Free Store. Deep versus Shallow Copy. Handling Memory Allocation Failure. Overriding new and delete. Placement new. Managing the Heap. Avoiding Memory Management. Summary.

Appendices.

A. C/C++ Compatibility.
B. Standard C++ Algorithms.
C. Function Objects and Adapters.


Function Objects. Function Object Adapters.

D Annotated Bibliography.


The C Practitioner's Booklist. The C++ Practitioner's Booklist.

Index.