Absolute C++

Walter Savitch is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of California at San Diego. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. Since that time he has been on the faculty of the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). He served as director of the UCSD Interdisciplinary PhD program in Cognitive Science for over ten years. He has served as a visiting researcher at the Computer Science departments of the University of Washington in Seattle and and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and has been a visiting scholar at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica in Amsterdam.

Chapter 1: C++ Basics
Introduction to C++
Variables, Expressions, and Assignment Statements
Console Input/Output
Program Style
Libraries and Namespaces
 
Chapter 2: Flow of Control
Boolean Expressions
Branching Mechanisms
Loops
 
Chapter 3: Function Basics
Predefined Functions
Programmer-Defined Functions
Scope Rules
 
Chapter 4: Parameters and Overloading
Parameters
Overloading and Default Arguments
Testing and Debugging Functions

Chapter 5: Arrays
Introduction to Arrays
Arrays in Functions
Programming with Arrays
Multidimensional Arrays
 
Chapter 6: Structures and Classes
Structures
Classes
 
Chapter 7: Constructors and Other Tools
Constructors
More Tools
Vectors—A Preview of the Standard Template Library
 
Chapter 8: Operator Overloading, Friends, and References
Basic Operator Overloading
Friend Functions and Automatic Type Conversion
References and More Overloaded Operators
 
Chapter 9: Strings
An Array Type for Strings
Character Manipulation Tools
The Standard Class string
 
Chapter 10: Pointers and Dynamic Arrays
Pointers
Dynamic Arrays
Classes, Pointers, and Dynamic Arrays
 
Chapter 11: Separate Compilation and Namespaces
Separate Compilation
Namespaces
 
Chapter 12: Streams and File I/O
I/O Streams
Tools for Stream I/O
Stream Hierarchies: A Preview of Inheritance
Random Access to Files
 
Chapter 13: Recursion
Recursive void Functions
Recursive Functions that Return a Value
Thinking Recursively
 
Chapter 14: Inheritance
Inheritance Basics
Programming with Inheritance
 
Chapter 15: Polymorphism and Virtual Functions
Virtual Function Basics
Pointers and Virtual Functions
 
Chapter 16: Templates
Function Templates
Class Templates
Templates and Inheritance
 
Chapter 17: Linked Data Structures
Nodes and Linked Lists
Linked List Applications
Iterators
Trees
 
Chapter 18: Exception Handling
Exception Handling Basics
Programming Techniques for Exception Handling
 
Chapter 19: Standard Template Library
Iterators
Containers
Generic Algorithms
 
Chapter 20: Patterns and UML
Patterns
UML
 
Appendix 1: C++ Keywords
Appendix 2: Precedence of Operators
Appendix 3: The ASCII Character Set
Appendix 4: Some Library Functions
Appendix 5: Old and New Header Files
Further Reading
Index