Moving from C to C++: Discussing Programming Problems, Why They Exist, and How C++ Solves Them

✍ Scribed by Arunesh Goyal (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 655
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The author says it best, «I hope to move you, a little at a time,from understanding C to the point where C++ becomes your mindset». This remarkable book is designed to streamline the process of learning C++ in a way that discusses programming problems, why they exist, and the approach C++ has taken to solve such problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiv
Introduction to Objects....Pages 1-26
Making and Using Objects....Pages 27-46
The C in C++....Pages 47-114
Data Abstraction....Pages 115-136
Hiding the Implementation....Pages 137-152
Initialization and Cleanup....Pages 153-168
Function Overloading and Default Arguments....Pages 169-184
Constants....Pages 185-208
Inline Functions....Pages 209-230
Name Control....Pages 231-258
References and the Copy Constructor....Pages 259-280
Operator Overloading....Pages 281-324
Dynamic Object Creation....Pages 325-348
Inheritance and Composition....Pages 349-378
Polymorphism and Virtual Functions....Pages 379-414
Introduction to Templates....Pages 415-454
Exception Handling....Pages 455-486
Strings in Depth....Pages 487-518
iostreams....Pages 519-574
Runtime Type Identification (RTTI)....Pages 575-592
Multiple Inheritance (MI)....Pages 593-620
Back Matter....Pages 621-634

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general