Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Edition

Glossary

“Often, a few well-chosen words are worth a thousand pictures.”

—Anonymous

A glossary is a brief explanation of words used in a text. This is a rather short glossary of the terms we thought most essential, especially in the earlier stages of learning programming. The index and the “Terms” sections of the chapters might also help. A more extensive glossary, relating specifically to C++, can be found at www.stroustrup.com/glossary.html, and there is an incredible variety of specialized glossaries (of greatly varying quality) available on the web. Please note that a term can have several related meanings (so we occasionally list some) and that most terms we list have (often weakly) related meanings in other contexts; for example, we don’t ...