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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days By Jesse Liberty

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days by Jesse Liberty


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Updated to the ANSI/ISO C++ Standard, this book acts as a guide for the beginning programmer in C++. Filled with examples of syntax and analysis of code, it covers fundamentals such as managing I/O, loops, arrays and creating C++ applications, in 21 lessons.

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days Summary

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days by Jesse Liberty

A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0672329417 ISBN-13: 9780672329418

Join the leagues of thousands of programmers and learn C++ from some of the best. The fifth edition of the best seller Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, written by Jesse Liberty, a well-known C++ and C# programming manual author and Bradley L. Jones, manager for a number of high profiler developer websites, has been updated to the new ANSI/ISO C++ Standard. This is an excellent hands-on guide for the beginning programmer. Packed with examples of syntax and detailed analysis of code, fundamentals such as managing I/O, loops, arrays and creating C++ applications are all covered in the 21 easy-to-follow lessons. You will also be given access to a website that will provide you will all the source code examples developed in the book as a practice tool. C++ is the preferred language for millions of developers-make Sams Teach Yourself the preferred way to learn it!

About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty is the author of numerous books on software development, including best-selling titles in C++ and .NET. He is the president of Liberty Associates, Inc. (http://www.LibertyAssociates.com) where he provides custom programming, consulting, and training.

Bradley Jones, Microsoft MVP, Visual C++, can be referred to as a webmaster, manager, coding grunt, executive editor, and various other things. His time and focus are on a number of software development sites and channels, including Developer.com, CodeGuru.com, DevX, VBForums, Gamelan, and other Jupitermedia-owned sites. This influence expands over sites delivering content to over 2.5 million unique developers a month.

His expertise is in the area of the big "C"s-C, C++, and C#-however, his experience includes development in PowerBuilder, VB, some Java, ASP, COBOL I/II, and various other technologies too old to even mention now. He has also been a consultant, analyst, project lead, associate publisher for major technical publishers, and author. His recent authoring credits include Sams Teach Yourself the C# Language in 21 Days, a 6th edition of Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, and now this edition of Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days. He is also the cofounder and president of the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association, which is a charter INETA group with membership of over 700. You can often hear his ramblings on the CodeGuru.com or VBForums.com discussion forums, and he also does the weekly CodeGuru newsletter that goes out to tens of thousands of developers.


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Table of Contents

Introduction.

Who Should Read This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Sample Code for This Book

Week 1 At a Glance

A Note to C Programmers

Where You Are Going

1. Getting Started.

A Brief History of C++

The Need for Solving Problems

Procedural, Structured, and Object-Oriented Programming

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

C++ and Object-Oriented Programming

How C++ Evolved

Should I Learn C First?

C++, Java, and C#

Microsoft's Managed Extensions to C++

The ANSI Standard

Preparing to Program

Your Development Environment

The Process of Creating the Program

Creating an Object File with the Compiler

Creating an Executable File with the Linker

The Development Cycle

HELLO.cpp-Your First C++ Program

Getting Started with Your Compiler

Building the Hello World Project

Compile Errors

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

2. The Anatomy of a C++ Program.

A Simple Program

A Brief Look at cout

Using the Standard Namespace

Commenting Your Programs

Types of Comments

Using Comments

A Final Word of Caution About Comments

Functions

Using Functions

Methods Versus Functions

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

3. Working with Variables and Constants.

What Is a Variable?

Storing Data in Memory

Setting Aside Memory

Size of Integers

signed and unsigned

Fundamental Variable Types

Defining a Variable

Case Sensitivity

Naming Conventions

Keywords

Creating More Than One Variable at a Time

Assigning Values to Your Variables

Creating Aliases with typedef

When to Use short and When to Use long

Wrapping Around an unsigned Integer

Wrapping Around a signed Integer

Working with Characters

Characters and Numbers

Special Printing Characters

Constants

Literal Constants

Symbolic Constants

Enumerated Constants

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

4. Creating Expressions and Statements.

Starting with Statements

Using Whitespace

Blocks and Compound Statements

Expressions

Working with Operators

Assignment Operators

Mathematical Operators

Combining the Assignment and Mathematical Operators

Incrementing and Decrementing

Prefixing Versus Postfixing

Understanding Operator Precedence

Nesting Parentheses

The Nature of Truth

Evaluating with the Relational Operators

The if Statement

Indentation Styles

The else Statement

Advanced if Statements

Using Braces in Nested if Statements

Using the Logical Operators

The Logical AND Operator

The Logical OR Operator

The Logical NOT Operator

Short Circuit Evaluation

Relational Precedence

More About Truth and Falsehood

The Conditional (Ternary) Operator

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

5. Organizing into Functions.

What Is a Function?

Return Values, Parameters, and Arguments

Declaring and Defining Functions

Function Prototypes

Defining the Function

Execution of Functions

Determining Variable Scope

Local Variables

Local Variables Within Blocks

Parameters Are Local Variables

Global Variables

Global Variables: A Word of Caution

Considerations for Creating Function Statements

More About Function Arguments

More About Return Values

Default Parameters

Overloading Functions

Special Topics About Functions

Inline Functions

Recursion

How Functions Work-A Peek Under the Hood

Levels of Abstraction

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

6. Understanding Object-Oriented Programming.

Is C++ Object-Oriented?

Creating New Types

Introducing Classes and Members

Declaring a Class

A Word on Naming Conventions

Defining an Object

Classes Versus Objects

Accessing Class Members

Assigning to Objects, Not to Classes

If You Don't Declare It, Your Class Won't Have It

Private Versus Public Access

Making Member Data Private

Implementing Class Methods

Adding Constructors and Destructors

Getting a Default Constructor and Destructor

Using the Default Constructor

Including const Member Functions

Interface Versus Implementation

Where to Put Class Declarations and Method Definitions

Inline Implementation

Classes with Other Classes as Member Data

Exploring Structures

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

7. More on Program Flow.

Looping

The Roots of Looping: goto

Why goto Is Shunned

Using while Loops

Exploring More Complicated while Statements

Introducing continue and break

Examining while (true) Loops

Implementing do...while Loops

Using do...while

Looping with the for Statement

Advanced for Loops

Empty for Loops

Nesting Loops

Scoping in for Loops

Summing Up Loops

Controlling Flow with switch Statements

Using a switch Statement with a Menu

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

Week 1 In Review

Week 2 At a Glance

Where You Are Going

8. Understanding Pointers.

What Is a Pointer?

A Bit About Memory

Getting a Variable's Memory Address

Storing a Variable's Address in a Pointer

Pointer Names

Getting the Value from a Variable

Dereferencing with the Indirection Operator

Pointers, Addresses, and Variables

Manipulating Data by Using Pointers

Examining the Address

Why Would You Use Pointers?

The Stack and the Free Store (Heap)

Allocating Space with the new Keyword

Putting Memory Back: The delete Keyword

Another Look at Memory Leaks

Creating Objects on the Free Store

Deleting Objects from the Free Store

Accessing Data Members

Creating Member Data on the Free Store

The this Pointer

Stray, Wild, or Dangling Pointers

Using const Pointers

const Pointers and const Member Functions

Using a const this Pointers

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

9. Exploiting References.

What Is a Reference?

Using the Address-Of Operator (&) on References

Attempting to Reassign References (Not!)

Referencing Objects

Null Pointers and Null References

Passing Function Arguments by Reference

Making swap() Work with Pointers

Implementing swap() with References

Understanding Function Headers and Prototypes

Returning Multiple Values

Returning Values by Reference

Passing by Reference for Efficiency

Passing a const Pointer

References as an Alternative

Knowing When to Use References Versus Pointers

Mixing References and Pointers

Returning Out-of-Scope Object References

Returning a Reference to an Object on the Heap

Pointer, Pointer, Who Has the Pointer?

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

10. Working with Advanced Functions.

Overloaded Member Functions

Using Default Values

Choosing Between Default Values and Overloaded Functions

The Default Constructor

Overloading Constructors

Initializing Objects

The Copy Constructor

Operator Overloading

Writing an Increment Function

Overloading the Prefix Operator

Returning Types in Overloaded Operator Functions

Returning Nameless Temporaries

Using the this Pointer

Overloading the Postfix Operator

Difference Between Prefix and Postfix

Overloading Binary Mathematical Operators

Issues in Operator Overloading

Limitations on Operator Overloading

What to Overload

The Assignment Operator

Handling Data Type Conversion

Conversion Operators

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

11. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design.

Building Models

Software Design: The Modeling Language

Software Design: The Process

Waterfall Versus Iterative Development

The Process of Iterative Development

Step 1: The Conceptualization Phase: Starting with The Vision

Step 2: The Analysis Phase: Gathering Requirements

Use Cases

Application Analysis

Systems Analysis

Planning Documents

Visualizations

Artifacts

Step 3: The Design Phase

What Are the Classes?

Transformations

Other Transformations

Building the Static Model

Dynamic Model

Steps 4-6: Implementation, Testing, and Rollout?

Iterations

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

12. Implementing Inheritance.

What Is Inheritance?

Inheritance and Derivation

The Animal Kingdom

The Syntax of Derivation

Private Versus Protected

Inheritance with Constructors and Destructors

Passing Arguments to Base Constructors

Overriding Base Class Functions

Hiding the Base Class Method

Calling the Base Method

Virtual Methods

How Virtual Functions Work

Trying to Access Methods from a Base Class

Slicing

Creating Virtual Destructors

Virtual Copy Constructors

The Cost of Virtual Methods

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

13. Managing Arrays and Strings.

What Is an Array?

Accessing Array Elements

Writing Past the End of an Array

Fence Post Errors

Initializing Arrays

Declaring Arrays

Using Arrays of Objects

Declaring Multidimensional Arrays

Initializing Multidimensional Arrays

Building Arrays of Pointers

A Look at Pointer Arithmetic-An Advanced Topic

Declaring Arrays on the Free Store

A Pointer to an Array Versus an Array of Pointers

Pointers and Array Names

Deleting Arrays on the Free Store

Resizing Arrays at Runtime

char Arrays and Strings

Using the strcpy() and strncpy() Methods

String Classes

Linked Lists and Other Structures

Creating Array Classes

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

14. Polymorphism.

Problems with Single Inheritance

Percolating Upward

Casting Down

Adding to Two Lists

Multiple Inheritance

The Parts of a Multiply Inherited Object

Constructors in Multiply Inherited Objects

Ambiguity Resolution

Inheriting from Shared Base Class

Virtual Inheritance

Problems with Multiple Inheritance

Mixins and Capabilities Classes

Abstract Data Types

Pure Virtual Functions

Implementing Pure Virtual Functions

Complex Hierarchies of Abstraction

Which Classes Are Abstract?

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

Week 2 In Review

Week 3 At a Glance

Where You Are Going

15. Special Classes and Functions.

Sharing Data Among Objects of the Same Type: Static Member Data

Using Static Member Functions

Pointers to Functions

Why Use Function Pointers?

Arrays of Pointers to Functions

Passing Pointers to Functions to Other Functions

Using typedef with Pointers to Functions

Pointers to Member Functions

Arrays of Pointers to Member Functions

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

16. Advanced Inheritance.

Aggregation

Accessing Members of the Aggregated Class

Controlling Access to Aggregated Members

Cost of Aggregation

Copying by Value

Implementation in Terms of Inheritance Versus Aggregation/Delegation

Using Delegation

Private Inheritance

Adding Friend Classes

Friend Functions

Friend Functions and Operator Overloading

Overloading the Insertion Operator

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

17. Working with Streams.

Overview of Streams

Encapsulation of Data Flow

Understanding Buffering

Streams and Buffers

Standard I/O Objects

Redirection of the Standard Streams

Input Using cin

Inputting Strings

String Problems

The cin Return Value

Other Member Functions of cin

Single Character Input

Getting Strings from Standard Input

Using cin.ignore()

Peeking at and Returning Characters: peek() and putback()

Outputting with cout

Flushing the Output

Functions for Doing Output

Manipulators, Flags, and Formatting Instructions

Streams Versus the printf() Function

File Input and Output

Using the ofstream

Condition States

Opening Files for Input and Output

Changing the Default Behavior of ofstream on Open

Binary Versus Text Files

Command-line Processing

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

18. Creating and Using Namespaces.

Getting Started

Resolving Functions and Classes by Name

Visibility of Variables

Linkage

Static Global Variables

Creating a Namespace

Declaring and Defining Types

Defining Functions Outside a Namespace

Adding New Members

Nesting Namespaces

Using a Namespace

The using Keyword

The using Directive

The using Declaration

The Namespace Alias

The Unnamed Namespace

The Standard Namespace std

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

19. Templates.

What Are Templates?

Building a Template Definition

Using the Name

Implementing the Template

Passing Instantiated Template Objects to Functions

Templates and Friends

Nontemplate Friend Classes and Functions

General Template Friend Class or Function

Using Template Items

Using Specialized Functions

Static Members and Templates

The Standard Template Library

Using Containers

Understanding Sequence Containers

Understanding Associative Containers

Working with the Algorithm Classes

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

20. Handling Errors and Exceptions.

Bugs, Errors, Mistakes, and Code Rot

Exceptional Circumstances

The Idea Behind Exceptions

The Parts of Exception Handling

Causing Your Own Exceptions

Creating an Exception Class

Placing try Blocks and catch Blocks

How Catching Exceptions Work

Using More Than One catch Specification

Exception Hierarchies

Data in Exceptions and Naming Exception Objects

Exceptions and Templates

Exceptions Without Errors

A Word About Code Rot

Bugs and Debugging

Breakpoints

Watch Points

Examining Memory

Assembler

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

21. What's Next.

The Preprocessor and the Compiler

The #define Preprocessor Directive

Using #define for Constants

Using #define for Tests

The #else Precompiler Command

Inclusion and Inclusion Guards

Macro Functions

Why All the Parentheses?

String Manipulation

Stringizing

Concatenation

Predefined Macros

The assert() Macro

Debugging with assert()

Using assert() Versus Exceptions

Side Effects

Class Invariants

Printing Interim Values

Inline Functions

Bit Twiddling

Operator AND

Operator OR

Operator Exclusive OR

The Complement Operator

Setting Bits

Clearing Bits

Flipping Bits

Bit Fields

Programming Style

Indenting

Braces

Long Lines and Function Length

Structuring switch Statements

Program Text

Naming Identifiers

Spelling and Capitalization of Names

Comments

Setting Up Access

Class Definitions

include Files

Using assert()

Making Items Constant with const

Next Steps in Your C++ Development

Where to Get Help and Advice

Related C++ Topics: Managed C++, C#, and Microsoft's .NET

Staying in Touch

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Quiz

Exercises

Week 3 In Review

A. Working with Numbers: Binary and Hexadecimal.

Using Other Bases

Converting to Different Bases

Binary

Why Base 2?

Bits, Bytes, and Nybbles

What's a KB?

Binary Numbers

Hexadecimal

B. C++ Keywords.

C. Operator Precedence.

D. Answers.

Day 1

Quiz

Exercises

Day 2

Quiz

Exercises

Day 3

Quiz

Exercises

Day 4

Quiz

Exercises

Day 5

Quiz

Exercises

Day 6

Quiz

Exercises

Day 7

Quiz

Exercises

Day 8

Quiz

Exercises

Day 9

Quiz

Exercises

Day 10

Quiz

Exercises

Day 11

Quiz

Exercises

Day 12

Quiz

Exercises

Day 13

Quiz

Exercises

Day 14

Quiz

Exercises

Day 15

Quiz

Exercises

Day 16

Quiz

Exercises

Day 17

Quiz

Exercises

Day 18

Quiz

Exercises

Day 19

Quiz

Exercises

Day 20

Quiz

Exercises

Day 21

Quiz

Exercises

E. A Look at Linked Lists.

The Component Parts of Your Linked List

Index.

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GOR001708425
9780672327117
0672327112
Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days by Jesse Liberty
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Pearson Education (US)
2004-12-14
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