The inheritance of C++; simple programs and the pre-defined data types; structured programming; derived types; functions; data files and library files; classes and derived classes; overloading and friends; dynamic data structures; templates; virtual functions and virtual base classes. Appendices: using Unix gnu C++ and Borland Turo C++; C++ escape sequences and the ASCII character set; C++ keywords; operator precedence and associativity; the Iostream libraries; other libraries.

Opening with a discussion of the inheritance of C++, derived from preceding structured programming languages and from Smalltalk, this book introduces the concepts of class inheritance and polymorphism. The author goes on to explain both structured and object-oriented programming methodologies.