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| Introduction | |
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| Who Should Read This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Sample Code for This Book | |
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| Week 1 At a Glance | |
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| A Note to C Programmers | |
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| Where You Are Going | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| A Brief History of C++ | |
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| The Need for Solving Problems | |
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| Procedural, Structured, and Object-Oriented Programming | |
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| Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) | |
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| C++ and Object-Oriented Programming | |
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| How C++ Evolved | |
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| Should I Learn C First? | |
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| C++, Java, and C# | |
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| Microsoft's Managed Extensions to C++ | |
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| The ANSI Standard | |
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| Preparing to Program | |
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| Your Development Environment | |
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| The Process of Creating the Program | |
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| Creating an Object File with the Compiler | |
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| Creating an Executable File with the Linker | |
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| The Development Cycle | |
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| HELLO.cpp-Your First C++ Program | |
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| Getting Started with Your Compiler | |
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| Building the Hello World Project | |
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| Compile Errors | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q &A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Anatomy of a C++ Program | |
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| A Simple Program | |
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| A Brief Look at cout | |
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| Using the Standard Namespace | |
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| Commenting Your Programs | |
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| Types of Comments | |
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| Using Comments | |
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| A Final Word of Caution About Comments | |
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| Functions | |
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| Using Functions | |
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| Methods Versus Functions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q &A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Working with Variables and Constants | |
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| What Is a Variable? | |
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| Storing Data in Memory | |
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| Setting Aside Memory | |
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| Size of Integers | |
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| signed and unsigned | |
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| Fundamental Variable Types | |
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| Defining a Variable | |
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| Case Sensitivity | |
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| Naming Conventions | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Creating More Than One Variable at a Time | |
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| Assigning Values to Your Variables | |
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| Creating Aliases with typedef | |
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| When to Use short and When to Use long | |
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| Wrapping Around an unsigned Integer | |
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| Wrapping Around a signed Integer | |
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| Working with Characters | |
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| Characters and Numbers | |
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| Special Printing Characters | |
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| Constants | |
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| Literal Constants | |
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| Symbolic Constants | |
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| Enumerated Constants | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q &A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Creating Expressions and Statements | |
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| Starting with Statements | |
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| Using Whitespace | |
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| Blocks and Compound Statements | |
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| Expressions | |
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| Working with Operators | |
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| Assignment Operators | |
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| Mathematical Operators | |
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| Combining the Assignment and Mathematical Operators | |
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| Incrementing and Decrementing | |
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| Prefixing Versus Postfixing | |
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| Understanding Operator Precedence | |
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| Nesting Parentheses | |
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| The Nature of Truth | |
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| Evaluating with the Relational Operators | |
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| The if Statement | |
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| Indentation Styles | |
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| The else Statement | |
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| Advanced if Statements | |
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| Using Braces in Nested if Statements | |
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| Using the Logical Operators | |
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| The Logical AND Operator | |
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| The Logical OR Operator | |
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| The Logical NOT Operator | |
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| Short Circuit Evaluation | |
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| Relational Precedence | |
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| More About Truth and Falsehood | |
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| The Conditional (Ternary) Operator | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q &A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Organizing into Functions | |
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| What Is a Function? | |
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| Return Values, Parameters, and Arguments | |
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| Declaring and Defining Functions | |
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| Function Prototypes | |
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| Defining the Function | |
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| Execution of Functions | |
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| Determining Variable Scope | |
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| Local Variables | |
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| Local Variables Within Blocks | |
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| Parameters Are Local Variables | |
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| Global Variables | |
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| Global Variabl | |