Chapter 1, An Introduction to Inheritance and Polymorphism, provides a brief overview of the object-oriented features of C++. This chapter is not intended as a reference for object-oriented programming in C++, but, rather, highlights the aspects of it that are important for the subsequent chapters.
Chapter 2, Class and Function Templates, provides an overview of the generic programming facilities of C++—class templates, function templates, and lambda expressions. This chapter covers template instantiations and specializations, along with template function argument deduction and overload resolution, and prepares you for more complex uses of templates in later chapters.
Chapter 3, Memory Ownership, describes modern idiomatic ...
