Publisher's Synopsis
"We present a friendly, contemporary, code-intensive, case-study-oriented introduction to C++, the world's third most popular programming language according to the TIOBE Index.2 C++ is popular for building high-performance business-critical and mission-critical computing systems-operating systems, real-time systems, embedded systems, game systems, banking systems, air-traffic-control systems, communications systems and more. This book is an introductory- through intermediate-level college textbook presentation of the C++20 version of C++ and its associated standard libraries, with a look toward C++23 and C++26. In this Preface, we present the "soul of the book""--.