Exploring C++ 11

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. Honing Your Tools

   • Ray Lischner

   Pages 1-8

3. Reading C Code

   • Ray Lischner

   Pages 9-14

4. Integer Expressions

   • Ray Lischner

   Pages 15-20

5. Strings

   • Ray Lischner

   Pages 21-25

6. Simple Input

   • Ray Lischner

   Pages 27-31

7. Error Messages

   • Ray Lischner

   Pages 33-37

8. For Loops

   • Ray Lischner

   Pages 39-42

9. Formatted Output

   • Ray Lischner

   Pages 43-50

10. Arrays and Vectors

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 51-54

11. Algorithms and Iterators

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 55-60

12. Increment and Decrement

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 61-65

13. Conditions and Logic

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 67-73

14. Compound Statements

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 75-83

15. Introduction to File I/O

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 85-88

16. The Map Data Structure

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 89-94

17. Type Synonyms

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 95-97

18. Characters

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 99-103

19. Character Categories

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 105-110

20. Case-Folding

    • Ray Lischner

    Pages 111-113

Exploring C++ divides C++ up into bite-sized chunks that will help you learn the language one step at a time. Assuming no familiarity with C++, or any other C-based language, you’ll be taught everything you need to know in a logical progression of small lessons that you can work through as quickly or as slowly as you need.

C++ can be a complicated language. Writing even the most straight-forward of programs requires you to understand many disparate aspects of the language and how they interact with one another. C++ doesn't lend itself to neat compartmentalization the way other languages do. Rather than baffle you with complex chapters explaining functions, classes and statements in isolation we’ll focus on teaching you how to achieve results. By learning a little bit of this and a little of that you’ll soon have amassed enough knowledge to be writing non-trivial programs and will have built a solid foundation of experience that puts those previously baffling concepts into context.

In this fully-revised second edition of Exploring C++, you’ll learn how to use the standard library early in the book. Next, you’ll learn to work with operators, objects and data-sources in increasingly realistic situations. Finally, you’ll start putting the pieces together to create sophisticated programs of your own design confident that you’ve built a firm base of experience from which to grow.

Ray Lischner has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Caltech and a master's in computer science from Oregon State University. He worked as a software developer for a dozen years, at big and small companies across the U.S., using PL/I, C, C++, Delphi, Smalltalk, and various assembly languages on both large and small systems. He has been self-employed as a consultant, trainer, and author for the last 10 years. Ray taught computer science at Oregon State University for several years and specialized in teaching introductory computer programming. He taught courses in C and C++ and software engineering.

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