CD-ROM inside pocket in back cover.

Previous ed.: c1998

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1085]-1091) and index.

NOTE: Each chapter begins with Objectives, an Outline, and an Introduction and ends with a Summary, Terminology, Common Programming Errors, Good Programming Practices, Performance Tips, Portability Tips, Software Engineering Observations, Self-Review Exercises, Self-Review Exercise Answers, and Exercises.) 1. Introduction to Computers and C++ Programming. 2. Control Structures. 3. Functions. 4. Arrays. 5. Pointers and Strings. 6. Classes and Data Abstraction. 7. Classes: Part II. 8. Operator Overloading. 9. Inheritance. 10. Virtual Functions and Polymorphism. 11. C++ Stream Input/Output. 12. Templates. 13. Exception Handling. 14. File Processing. 15. Data Structures. 16. Bits, Characters, Strings and Structures. 17. The Preprocessor. 18. C Legacy Code Topics. 19. Class String and String Stream Processing. 20. Standard Template Library (STL). 21. Standard C++ Language Additions. Appendix A: Operator Precedence Chart. Appendix B: ASCII Character Set. Appendix C: Number Systems. Appendix D: C++ Internet and Web Resources. Bibliography. Index.

For Computer Science 1 and other courses covering programming in C++. Also appropriate as a supplement for upper-level courses where the instructor uses a book as a reference to the C++ language. This best-selling comprehensive text is aimed at readers with little or no programming experience. It teaches programming by emphasizing achieving program clarity through structured and object-oriented programming, software reuse and component-oriented software construction.