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

An Introduction to Programming by the Inventor of C++

Preparation for Programming in the Real World

The book assumes that you aim eventually to write non-trivial programs, whether for work in software development or in some other technical field.

Focus on Fundamental Concepts and Techniques

The book explains fundamental concepts and techniques in greater depth than traditional introductions. This approach will give you a solid foundation for writing useful, correct, maintainable, and efficient code.

Programming with Today’s C++ (C++11 and C++14)

The book is an introduction to programming in general, including object-oriented programming and generic programming. It is also a solid introduction to the C++ programming language, one of the most widely used languages for real-world software. The book presents modern C++ programming techniques from the start,

introducing the C++ standard library and C++11 and C++14 features to simplify programming tasks.

For Beginners—And Anyone Who Wants to Learn Something New

The book is primarily designed for people who have never programmed before, and it has been tested with many thousands of first-year university students. It has also been extensively used for self-study. Also, practitioners and advanced students have gained new insight and guidance by seeing how a master approaches the elements of his art.

Provides a Broad View

The first half of the book covers a wide range of essential concepts, design and programming techniques, language features, and libraries. Those will enable you to write programs involving input, output, computation, and simple graphics. The second half explores more specialized topics (such as text processing, testing, and the C programming language) and provides abundant reference material. Source code and support supplements are available from the author’s website.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Computers, People, and Programming

Part I The Basics
Chapter 2 Hello, World!
Chapter 3 Objects, Types, and Values
Chapter 4 Computation
Chapter 5 Errors
Chapter 6 Writing a Program
Chapter 7 Completing a Program
Chapter 8 Technicalities: Functions, etc.
Chapter 9 Technicalities: Classes, etc.

Part II Input and Output
Chapter 10 Input and Output Streams
Chapter 11 Customizing Input and Output
Chapter 12 A Display Model
Chapter 13 Graphics Classes
Chapter 14 Graphics Class Design
Chapter 15 Graphing Functions and Data
Chapter 16 Graphical User Interfaces

Part III Data and Algorithms
Chapter 17 Vector and Free Store
Chapter 18 Vectors and Arrays
Chapter 19 Vector, Templates, and Exceptions
Chapter 20 Containers and Iterators
Chapter 21 Algorithms and Maps

Part IV Broadening the View
Chapter 22 Ideals and History
Chapter 23 Text Manipulation
Chapter 24 Numerics
Chapter 25 Embedded Systems Programming
Chapter 26 Testing
Chapter 27 The C Programming Language

Part V Appendices
Appendix A Language Summary
Appendix B Standard Library Summary
Appendix C Getting Started with Visual Studio
Appendix D Installing FLTK
Appendix E GUI Implementation