Building on the hugely successful Program Design and Problem Solving with C++, this more comprehensive text is for the serious C++ student! Written for the modern programmer, this innovative text focuses on the nature and obvious advantages of C++ as a language. Featuring problem solving throughout the text, examples are relevant to C++ and match and highlight the specific qualities of C++ rather than basic, generic programming examples. This book will provide excellent, comprehensive instruction and theory regarding this language.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. An overview of computers and programming languages 2. Basic elements of C++ 3. Input/Output 4. Control structures I (Selection) 5. Control structures II (Repetition) 6. User-defined simple data types, namespaces, and the string type 7. Arrays and strings 8. Records (structs) 9. Classes and data abstraction 10. Inheritance and composition 11. Pointers, classes, virtual functions, and abstract classes 12. Overloading and templates 13. Exception handling 14. Recursion 15. Searching, sorting, and the vector type 16. Linked lists 17. Stacks and queues.