C++ Programming Visual QuickStart Guide

by Ullman, Larry; Signer, Andreas

• ISBN13: 9780321356567
• ISBN10: 032135656X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-16
• Publisher: Peachpit Press

Summary

Easy, task - based guide takes the pain out of programming with C++!

Author Biography

Larry Ullman is the director of digital media technology at DMC Insights, an IT consulting firm, as well as the author of numerous best-selling books on PHP, MySQL, and C (including several other Visual QuickStart Guides). Andreas Signer is the CEO of AdNovum Software, a California company that develops secure e-banking and e-government solutions.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
What Is C++?	p. x
How C++ Works	p. xi
What You'll Need	p. xii
About This Book	p. xiii
Getting Help	p. xv
Creating a Basic Program	p. 1
Basic C++ Syntax	p. 2
Compiling a C++ Program	p. 6
Printing Text	p. 10
Running a Compiled Program	p. 14
Pausing Execution	p. 16
Understanding White Space	p. 18
Adding Comments to Your Source Code	p. 20
Using an IDE	p. 23
Simple Variables and Data Types	p. 29
Declaring Variables	p. 30
Assigning Values to Variables	p. 36
Printing Variables	p. 38
Formatting Numbers	p. 41
Understanding Type Conversion	p. 44
Introduction to Characters	p. 48
Introduction to Strings	p. 51
Introduction to Constants	p. 54
Operators and Control Structures	p. 57
Arithmetic Operators	p. 58
If Conditionals	p. 64
Using else and else if	p. 68
The Ternary Operator	p. 72
Logical and Comparison Operators	p. 76
Switch Conditionals	p. 82
Increment and Decrement Operators	p. 88
While Loop	p. 92
For Loop	p. 96
Input, Output, and Files	p. 99
Taking Character Input	p. 100
Discarding Input	p. 105
Taking Numeric Input	p. 108
Taking String Input	p. 111
Taking Multiple Inputs	p. 114
Reading In a Whole Line	p. 118
Validating Input	p. 121
Creating File Output	p. 127
Using File Input	p. 132
Defining Your Own Functions	p. 137
Creating Simple Functions	p. 138
Creating Functions That Take Arguments	p. 143
Setting Default Argument Values	p. 149
Creating Functions That Return a Value	p. 154
Overloading Functions	p. 160
Understanding Variable Scope	p. 164
Complex Data Types	p. 169
Working with Arrays	p. 170
Working with Pointers	p. 176
Structures	p. 194
Revisiting User-Defined Functions	p. 199
Introducing Objects	p. 207
Creating a Simple Class	p. 208
Adding Methods to a Class	p. 212
Creating and Using Objects	p. 217
Defining Constructors	p. 221
Defining Destructors	p. 226
The this Pointer	p. 232
Class Inheritance	p. 237
Basic Inheritance	p. 238
Inheriting Constructors and Destructors	p. 244
Access Control	p. 249
Overriding Methods	p. 254
Overloading Methods	p. 258
Making Friends	p. 261
Advanced OOP	p. 267
Static Attributes and Methods	p. 268
Virtual Methods	p. 275
Abstract Methods	p. 283
Operator Overloading	p. 288
The [double less-than sign] Operator	p. 296
Multiple Inheritance	p. 301
Virtual Inheritance	p. 308
Error Handling and Debugging	p. 313
Debugging Techniques	p. 314
Returning Error Codes	p. 320
Using assert()	p. 326
Catching Exceptions	p. 332
Dynamic Memory Management	p. 339
Static and Dynamic Memory	p. 340
Allocating Objects	p. 344
Allocating Arrays of Dynamic Size	p. 349
Returning Memory from a Function or Method	p. 354
The Copy Constructor and the Assignment Operator	p. 359
Static Object Type Casts	p. 368
Performing Dynamic Object Type Casts	p. 372
Avoiding Memory Leaks	p. 376
Namespaces & Modularization	p. 379
Working with Included Files	p. 380
The C Preprocessor	p. 394
Understanding Namespaces	p. 398
Linkage and Scope	p. 406
Working with Templates	p. 415
Basic Template Syntax	p. 416
Creating Inline Templates	p. 428
Containers and Algorithms	p. 432
Extended Topics	p. 443
Strings Revisited	p. 444
Working with Binary Files	p. 458
Taking Command-Line Arguments	p. 473
C++ Tools	p. 479
Dev-C++ for Windows	p. 480
Xcode on Mac OS X	p. 485
Unix Tools	p. 486
Debugging with GDB	p. 487
Resources	p. 489
Web Sites	p. 490
Tables	p. 492
Index	p. 495
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