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Practical C++ Programming is being used in a wide variety of classrooms, from the university campus to the industrial seminar. The slides are designed to support this wide usage. Instructors are encouraged to take the material and customize it for their own environment.
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Chapter 1, What Is C++?,
gives you an overview of C++, describes its
history and uses, and explains how the language is organized.
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Chapter 2, The Basics of Program Writing,
explains the basic programming
process and gives you enough information to write a very simple
program.
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Chapter 3, Style,
discusses programming style. How to comment a program
is covered, as well as how to write clear and simple code.
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Chapter 4, Basic Declarations and Expressions,
introduces simple C++
statements. Basic variables and the assignment statement are
covered in detail along with the arithmetic operators: +,
-, *,
/, and %.
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Chapter 5, Arrays, Qualifiers, and Reading Numbers,
covers arrays and
more complex variables. The shorthand operators ++,
--, *=,
=, +=,
-=, /=
and %= are
described.
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Chapter 6, Decision and Control Statements,
explains simple decision
statements including if, else
and for. The problem of ==
versus =
is discussed.
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Chapter 7, The Programming Process, takes you through the steps required
for creating a simple program, from specification through release.
Fast prototyping, and debugging are discussed.
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Chapter 8, More Control Statements, describes additional control
statements. Included are while,
break, and continue.
The switch statement is
discussed in detail.
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Chapter 9, Variable Scope and Functions, introduces local variables,
namespaces, functions, and parameters.
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Chapter 10, The C++ Preprocessor, describes the C++ preprocessor, which
gives you great flexibility in creating code. It also provides a
tremendous number of ways for you to screw up. Simple rules that help
keep the preprocessor from becoming a problem are described.
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Chapter 11, Bit Operations, discusses the logical C++ operators that work
on bits.
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Chapter 12, Advanced Types, explains structures and other advanced types.
The sizeof operator and the
enum type are included.
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Chapter 13, Simple Classes, introduces the concept of a class. This is one
of the more powerful features of C++. Classes allow you to group data
and the operations that can be performed on that data into one
object.
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Chapter 14, More on Classes, describes additional operations that can be
performed with classes.
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Chapter 15, Simple Pointers, introduces C++ pointer variables and shows
some of their uses.
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Chapter 16, File Input/Output, describes both buffered and unbuffered
input/output (I/O). ASCII and binary files are discussed and you are
shown how to construct a simple file. Old C-style I/O operations are
also included.
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Chapter 17, Debugging and Optimization, describes how to debug a program,
as well as how to use an interactive debugger. You are shown not only
how to debug a program, but also how to write a program so that it is
easy to debug. This chapter also describes many optimization
techniques to make your programs run faster and more efficiently.
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Chapter 18, Operator Overloading, explains that C++ allows you to extend
the language by defining additional meanings for the language’s
operators. In this chapter, you create a complex type and the
operators that work on it.
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Chapter 19, Floating Point, uses a simple decimal floating-point format to
introduce the problems inherent in using floating points, such
as roundoff errors, precision loss, overflow, and underflow.
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Chapter 20, Advanced Pointers, describes advanced use of pointers to
construct dynamic structures such as linked lists and trees.
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Chapter 21, Advanced Classes, shows how to build complex, derived classes out of simple, base ones.
Finally a number
of miscellaneous features are described in V: Other Language
Features.
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Chapter 22, Exceptions, explains how to handle unexpected conditions
within a program.
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Chapter 23, Modular Programming, shows how to split a program into several
files and use modular programming techniques. The make
utility is explained in more detail.
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Chapter 24, Templates, allows you to define a generic function or class
that generates a family of functions.
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Chapter 25, Standard Template Library describes the template library that
comes with C++. This library consists of a number of “container
templates” and related data structures which let you create
very complex and robust data structures with very little work.
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Chapter 25-extra, Portability Problems, describes the problems that can occur
when porting a program (moving a program from one machine to
another).
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Chapter 26, Program Design, discusses some of the methodologies used to
design programs, such as structured programming and object oriented
design. Not only are the design methods discussed, but also the
reasoning that went into the design of the design.
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Chapter 27, Putting It All Together, details the steps necessary to take a
complex program from conception to completion. Information hiding and
modular programming techniques, as well as object-oriented
programming, are stressed.
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Chapter 28, From C to C++, describes how to turn C code into C++ code, and
addresses many of the traps lurking in C code that bite the C++
programmer.
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Chapter 29, C++’s Dustier Corners, describes the do/while
statement, the comma operator, and the ?:
operators.
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Chapter 30, Programming Adages, lists programming adages that will help
you construct good C++ programs.
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Supplement: From C to C++. This section contains material for teaching
C++ to C programmers. It highlights the differences between C and C++. It quickly covers
the new C++ stuff presented in Chapter 1 through 12.
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