Book description
Start here if you want to master C++. No experience necessary. Honestly.
Learn C++ from a master: how to think like a programmer!
A remarkable personal dialogue between a C++ expert and a novice
From the absolute basics to advanced topics: inheritance, polymorphism, pointers, and more.
Even if you have absolutely no programming experience, this book will help you truly master C++.
You won't merely learn the basics. You'll master sophisticated, professional techniques—up to and including the effective use of encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and pointers.
You'll never find yourself copying syntax without understanding it. You'll learn to think like a programmer, engineer code that delivers great reliability and performance, and avoid the pitfalls that await every new C++ developer.
These are powerful promises. But Learning to Program in C++ is a remarkable book.
It's a book-length dialogue between renowned C++ developer Steve Heller and a real-life programming novice-a novice with an uncanny ability to ask the questions you'd ask-and get crystal-clear, on-target answers.
It starts from absolute scratch, making only one assumption: you're ready to learn. And it's more like reading a novel—or participating in an intelligent discussion—than any computer book you've ever seen.
Steve Heller's Learning to Program in C++. It's a pleasure to read. And if you pay attention, you'll walk away with a superb understanding of C++: what to do, how to do it, and above all, why.
Previously published as Who's Afraid of C++? and Who's Afraid of More C++?: Both classic books, integrated and updated, together for the first time, at a great price!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Letter from a Novice
- About the Author
- Introduction to Programming
- Hardware Fundamentals
-
Basics of Programming
- Definitions
- Objectives of This Chapter
- Speed Demon
- Lost in Translation
- What's Going on Underneath?
- Who's on First?
- Exercises, First Set
- A Cast of Characters
- A Byte by Any Other Name…
- Some Strings Attached
- Exercises, Second Set
- In and Out
- If Only You Knew
- While We're on the Subject
- Exercises, Third Set
- Just up the Block
- At the Fair
- Exercises, Fourth Set
- Review
- Conclusion
- Answers to Exercises
- More Basics
- Functional Literacy
- Taking Inventory
- Stringing Along
- Down the Garden Path
- Stocking Up
- Pretty Poly
- The Home Inventory Project
- Homeward Bound
- Stealing Home
- Tying up Loose Ends
- Glossary
Product information
- Title: Learning to Program in C++
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2000
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780130324108
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