Publisher's Synopsis
Learn C++ programming from a Dr. Dobb’s Journal expert, right at home
Here’s your class schedule for learning the powerful, robust C++ language directly from an expert programmer and instructor. In this fully–updated volume, you’ll learn through a tutorial approach that provides a complete working program, not fragments, to teach each lesson. All code and examples are up to date and fully compliant with the latest updates to the C++ compilers, and every lesson is completely integrated with the Windows–hosted IDE on the CD–ROM. You learn at your own pace, from a leader in the field.
- Compile, run, and experiment with sample programs using the complete IDE and C++ compiler suite on the CD–ROM
- Gain a basic understanding of C++ history, the core C++ language, the standard C++ library, and the standard template library
- Start writing simple C++ programs quickly and progress at your own speed to advanced programming
- Understand functions, program flow control, structures and unions, and data type organization
- Explore pointers, addresses, and dynamic memory allocation
- Comprehend preprocessing directives and compile–time conditional directives
- Work with classes, constructors and destructors, conversion, class objects, and class members
- Learn from platform–independent examples that work with any platform
All this on CD–ROM
- Quincy 2002: Freeware Windows–hosted programmer’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE), created by the author.
- MinGW 3.2: Open Source GCC C/C++ compiler system.
- Example programs: All the source code for the program listings in the book.
- Wedit: Freeware resource editor.
- Artistic Style: GPL formatter that automatically reindents and reformats C/C++/C#/Java source code.
