C++ from the ground up

Title:

Personal Author:

Schildt, Herbert

Publication Information:

Berkeley : Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1994

ISBN:

9780078819698

Subject Term:

C++ (Computer program language)

Programming languages (Electronic computers)

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Author Notes

Herbert Schildt is the world's leading programming author. He is an authority on the C, C++, Java, and C# programming languages, and is a master Windows programmer. He was a member of the ANSI/ISO committee that standardized C++

Preface	p. xvii
1 The Story of C++	p. 1
The Origins of C++	p. 2
The Evolution of C++	p. 6
What Is Object-Oriented Programming?	p. 6
2 An Overview of C++	p. 11
Your First C++ Program	p. 12
Handling Syntax Errors	p. 16
A Second Simple Program	p. 17
A More Practical Example	p. 18
A New Data Type	p. 19
A Quick Review	p. 20
Functions	p. 20
Function Arguments	p. 22
Some Output Options	p. 26
Two Simple Commands	p. 27
Blocks of Code	p. 29
Semicolons and Positioning	p. 30
Indentation Practices	p. 31
C++ Keywords	p. 31
Identifiers in C++	p. 32
The Standard C++ Library	p. 32
3 The Basic Data Types	p. 33
Declaration of Variables	p. 35
Some Type Modifiers	p. 38
Literals	p. 41
Variable Initializations	p. 45
Operators	p. 46
Expressions	p. 53
4 Program Control Statements	p. 57
The if Statement	p. 58
The for Loop	p. 62
The switch Statement	p. 67
The while Loop	p. 71
The do-while Loop	p. 73
Using continue	p. 74
Using break to Exit Loops	p. 75
Nested Loops	p. 76
Using the goto Statement	p. 77
Putting Together the Pieces	p. 78
5 Arrays and Strings	p. 81
One-Dimensional Arrays	p. 82
Strings	p. 86
Some String Library Functions	p. 89
Two-Dimensional Arrays	p. 94
Multidimensional Arrays	p. 96
Array Initialization	p. 96
Arrays of Strings	p. 101
6 Pointers	p. 105
What Are Pointers?	p. 106
The Pointer Operators	p. 107
Pointer Expressions	p. 110
Pointers and Arrays	p. 112
Pointers and String Literals	p. 117
A Comparison Example	p. 117
Arrays of Pointers	p. 118
The Null Pointer Convention	p. 121
Multiple Indirection	p. 122
Problems with Pointers	p. 124
7 Functions, Part One: The Fundamentals	p. 127
Scope Rules of Functions	p. 128
Passing Pointers and Arrays	p. 136
Argc and argv: Arguments to main()	p. 141
The return Statement	p. 145
Function Prototypes	p. 151
Headers: A Closer Look	p. 152
Recursion	p. 153
8 Functions, Part Two: References, Overloading, and Default Arguments	p. 157
Two Approaches to Argument Passing	p. 158
Reference Parameters	p. 160
Function Overloading	p. 170
Default Function Arguments	p. 173
Function Overloading and Ambiguity	p. 177
9 More Data Types and Operators	p. 181
The const and volatile Qualifiers	p. 182
Storage Class Specifiers	p. 185
Enumerations	p. 193
Typedef	p. 197
More Operators	p. 197
Bitwise Operators	p. 197
The ? Operator	p. 203
Compound Assignment	p. 205
The Comma Operator	p. 205
Multiple Assignments	p. 206
Using sizeof	p. 206
Dynamic Allocation Using new and delete	p. 207
Precedence Summary	p. 213
10 Structures and Unions	p. 215
Structures	p. 216
Unions	p. 237
Using sizeof to Ensure Portability	p. 243
Moving On to Object-Oriented Programming	p. 243
11 Introducing the Class	p. 245
Class Fundamentals	p. 246
A Closer Look at Class Member Access	p. 250
Constructors and Destructors	p. 252
Classes and Structures Are Related	p. 260
Unions and Classes Are Related	p. 263
Inline Functions	p. 264
Arrays of Objects	p. 267
Pointers to Objects	p. 270
Object References	p. 272
12 A Closer Look at Classes	p. 273
Friend Functions	p. 274
Overloading Constructors	p. 278
Dynamic Initialization	p. 280
Assigning Objects	p. 282
Passing Objects to Functions	p. 283
Returning Objects	p. 288
Creating and Using a Copy Constructor	p. 291
The this Keyword	p. 297
13 Operator Overloading	p. 299
Operator Overloading Using Member Functions	p. 300
Nonmember Operator Functions	p. 309
A Closer Look at the Assignment Operator	p. 317
Overloading []	p. 320
Overloading ()	p. 324
Overloading Other Operators	p. 325
Another Example of Operator Overloading	p. 325
14 Inheritance	p. 331
Introducing Inheritance	p. 332
Base Class Access Control	p. 335
Using protected Members	p. 337
Inheriting Multiple Base Classes	p. 342
Constructors, Destructors, and Inheritance	p. 343
Granting Access	p. 350
Virtual Base Classes	p. 352
15 Virtual Functions and Polymorphism	p. 357
Pointers to Derived Types	p. 358
Virtual Functions	p. 360
Early versus Late Binding	p. 372
16 Templates	p. 375
Generic Functions	p. 376
Generic Classes	p. 384
17 Exception Handling	p. 395
Exception Handling Fundamentals	p. 396
Options for Exception Handling	p. 404
Handling Exceptions Thrown by new	p. 409
Overloading new and delete	p. 411
18 The C++ I/O System	p. 417
Old VS Modern C++ I/O	p. 418
C++ Streams	p. 418
The C++ Stream Classes	p. 419
Overloading the I/O Operators	p. 420
Formatted I/O	p. 426
File I/O	p. 435
More Binary I/O Functions	p. 444
Random Access	p. 446
Checking I/O Status	p. 448
Customized I/O and Files	p. 449
19 Run-Time Type ID and the Casting Operators	p. 451
Run-Time Type Identification (RTTI)	p. 452
The Casting Operators	p. 462
20 Namespaces and Other Advanced Topics	p. 471
Namespaces	p. 472
The std Namespace	p. 478
Pointers to Functions	p. 480
Static Class Members	p. 484
Const Member Functions and mutable	p. 486
Explicit Constructors	p. 488
The Member Initialization Syntax	p. 490
Using the asm Keyword	p. 493
Linkage Specification	p. 493
The .* and [characters not reproducible]* Pointer-to-Member Operators	p. 495
Creating Conversion Functions	p. 497
21 Introducing the Standard Template Library	p. 499
An Overview of the STL	p. 500
The Container Classes	p. 502
Vectors	p. 504
Lists	p. 514
Maps	p. 523
Algorithms	p. 529
The string Class	p. 537
Final Thoughts on the STL	p. 545
22 The C++ Preprocessor	p. 547
#define	p. 548
#error	p. 552
#include	p. 552
Conditional Compilation Directives	p. 553
#line	p. 558
#pragma	p. 559
The # and ## Preprocessor Operators	p. 559
Predefined Macro Names	p. 560
Final Thoughts	p. 561
A C-Based I/O	p. 563
C I/O Uses Streams	p. 564
Understanding printf() and scanf()	p. 565
The C File System	p. 572
fseek() and Random-Access I/O	p. 578
fprintf() and fscanf()	p. 579
Erasing Files	p. 580
B Working with an Older C++ Compiler	p. 581
C The .NET Managed Extensions to C++	p. 585
The .NET Keyword Extensions	p. 586
Preprocessor Extensions	p. 588
The attribute Attribute	p. 589
Compiling Managed C++	p. 589
Index	p. 591

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