21 Days to Master C++: Fifth Edition

Author: (USA) Liberty J.
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Master all the skills needed to start programming with C++ in just 21 days. By reading this comprehensive tutorial, readers can quickly grasp the basics and learn more advanced features and concepts. Learn the basics of C++ and object-oriented programming; Master all the new and advanced features provided by C++; Learn how to write efficient programs using C++ by completing practical examples; Learn expert techniques from C++ authorities. Readers can read this book according to their needs: read it chapter by chapter or choose chapters that interest them. No programming experience is required; Learn C++ and object-oriented design, programming, and analysis; Write fast, powerful C++ programs, compile source code, and create executable files; Understand the new ANSI standard and how to benefit from standard revisions; Use functions, arrays, variables, and pointers to complete complex programming tasks; Learn to use inheritance and polymorphism to extend program functionality; Master C++ features through learning programming; Suitable for any compiler that follows the ANSI C++ standard. This book is based on the 2003 ISO/ANSI C++ standard. It elaborates on the basic concepts and techniques of C++ in detail and comprehensively through numerous concise and effective example programs, including control input/output, loops and arrays, object-oriented programming, templates, and creating C++ applications. This content is organized into well-structured and closely linked chapters; each chapter provides a list of example programs, supplemented by example output and code analysis to demonstrate the topic introduced in the chapter. To deepen readers' understanding of the learned content, each chapter provides common questions and answers, as well as quizzes and exercises. Readers can check the quiz and exercise answers provided in Appendix D to understand the extent of their mastery of the learned content. This book is written for beginners in C++, and does not require readers to have a background in C. It can be used as a teaching material for C++ courses in universities and colleges, or for beginners to self-study C++.