Ivor Horton's Beginning ANSI C++ The Complete Language

Written in the same style that has made Ivor Horton a best-selling author, this third edition of his popular title is a comprehensive, ground-up tutorial! The third edition has been completely revised and updated, and is ideal for self-taught students and scholars enrolled in structured courses. The text and examples are progressive; each topic builds and expands upon the previous topic. Further, the book provides in-depth coverage of class templates, including an introduction to the Standard Template Library.

No prior knowledge of any particular programming language is assumed; the only requirement is a basic appreciation of elementary programming concepts. If you understand the basic notions of how programs worklike branching and loopingthis book is for you! Horton demonstrates all language elements with complete working code examples, and includes practice exercises at the end of each chapter.

1 Basic Ideas.- 2 Basic Data Types and Calculations.- 3 More on Handling Basic Data Types.- 4 Choices and Decisions in Your Programs.- 5 Loops: Repeating One or More Statements.- 6 Arrays and Strings.- 7 Pointers.- 8 Programming with Functions.- 9 More on Functions.- 10 Program Files and Preprocessing Directives.- 11 Creating Your Own Data Types.- 12 Classes: Defining Your Own Data Types.- 13 Class Operations.- 14 Operator Overloading.- 15 Inheritance.- 16 Virtual Functions and Polymorphism.- 17 Program Errors and Exception Handling.- 18 Using Class Templates To Create Families of Classes.- 19 Input and Output Operations.- 20 Introducing the Standard Template Library.- Appendix A ASCII Codes.- Appendix B C++ Keywords.- Appendix C Standard Library Headers.- Appendix D Operator Precedence and Associativity.- Appendix E Understanding Binary and Hexadecimal Numbers.- Appendix F Example Project.

Ivor Horton is self-employed in consultancy and writes programming tutorials. He worked for IBM for many years and holds a bachelor's degree, with honors, in mathematics. Horton's experience at IBM includes programming in most languages (like assembler and high-level languages on a variety of machines), real-time programming, and designing and implementing real-time closed loop industrial control systems. He has extensive experience teaching programming to engineers and scientists (Fortran, PL/1, APL, etc.). Horton is an expert in mechanical, process, and electronic CAD systems; mechanical CAM systems; and DNC/CNC systems.