INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL.

Notes to the Reader.
A Tour of C++.
A Tour of the Standard Library.

I. BASIC FACILITIES.

Types and Declarations.
Pointers, Arrays, and Structures.
Expressions and Statements.
Functions.
Namespaces and Exceptions.
Source Files and Programs.

II. ABSTRACTION MECHANISMS.

Classes.
Operator Overloading.
Derived Classes.
Templates.
Exception Handling.
Class Hierarchies.

III. THE STANDARD LIBRARY.

Library Organization and Containers.
Standard Containers.
Algorithms and Function Objects.
Iterators and Allocators.
Strings.
Streams.
Numerics.

IV. DESIGN USING C++.

Development and Design.
Design and Programming.
Roles of Classes.

APPENDICES.

The C++ Grammar.
Compatibility.
Technicalities. 0201889544T04062001

About the Author

Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++, the author of The C++ Programming Language, The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, and The Design and Evolution of C++, and the consulting editor of Addison-Wesley's C++ In-Depth Series. Having previously worked at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs-Research, he currently is the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science Professor at Texas A&M University. The recipient of numerous honors, including the Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award (2008), Dr. Stroustrup is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an AT&T Fellow, an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow. His research interests include distributed systems, simulation, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages, and he remains actively involved in the ANSI/ISO standardization of C++. Dr. Stroustrup holds an advanced degree from the University of Aarhus in his native Denmark and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University, England.

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