Mike and Phani's Essential C++ Techniques

Michael Hyman works on Internet technology at a major software company in the Northwest U.S. and was formerly a business unit manager at Borland Software Corporation. Among his 10 other books are the bestselling Visual C++ For Dummies, Visual J++ For Dummies, and Dynamic HTML For Dummies. He is co-author of Mike and Phani's Essential C++ Techniques, published by Apress.

I The Techniques.- 1 Start with a Good Design.- 2 Darn Reasonable Practices.- 3 Dealing with Compiler-Generated Code.- 4 Pointers and Memory.- 5 Arrays.- 6 Classes.- 7 Abstract Base Classes.- 8 Constructors.- 9 Inheritance.- 10 Operator Overloading.- 11 Templates.- 12 Miscellaneous Goop.- 13 Performance.- 14 Using Assembly.- 15 General Debugging Stuff.- 16 Specific Debugging Stuff.- II Sample Code.- 17 Smart Pointers.- 18 Reference Counting.- 19 Dynamic Arrays.- 20 Strings.- 21 Bit Manipulation.- 22 Sorting.- 23 Regular Expression Matching.- Appendix About the CD-ROM.