Ivor Horton's Beginning ANSI C++

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.

1 Basic Ideas.- 2 Basic Data Types and Calculations.- 3 More on Handling Basic Data Types.- 4 Choices and Decisions in Your Programs.- 5 Loops: Repeating One or More Statements.- 6 Arrays and Strings.- 7 Pointers.- 8 Programming with Functions.- 9 More on Functions.- 10 Program Files and Preprocessing Directives.- 11 Creating Your Own Data Types.- 12 Classes: Defining Your Own Data Types.- 13 Class Operations.- 14 Operator Overloading.- 15 Inheritance.- 16 Virtual Functions and Polymorphism.- 17 Program Errors and Exception Handling.- 18 Using Class Templates To Create Families of Classes.- 19 Input and Output Operations.- 20 Introducing the Standard Template Library.- Appendix A ASCII Codes.- Appendix B C++ Keywords.- Appendix C Standard Library Headers.- Appendix D Operator Precedence and Associativity.- Appendix E Understanding Binary and Hexadecimal Numbers.- Appendix F Example Project.