For undergraduate students in Computer Science and Computer Programming courses. Praised for providing an engaging balance of thoughtful examples and explanatory discussion, Absolute C++, Fourth Edition has been updated with numerous additional programming projects and an extensive set of VideoNotes. Best-selling author Walt Savitch and contributor Kenrick Mock explain concepts and techniques in a straightforward style using understandable language and code enhanced by a suite of pedagogical tools. Absolute C++ is appropriate for both introductory and intermediate programming courses introducing C++. SUPPLEMENTS * PowerPoint Slides* Source Code from the book* VideoNotes* MyCodeMate Online Tutorial Service* Instructors Solutions Manual* Test Bank* Text-specific Website: www.aw.com/savitch

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: C++ Basics Introduction to C++ Variables, Expressions, and Assignment Statements Console Input/Output Program Style Libraries and Namespaces Chapter 2: Flow of Control Boolean Expressions Branching Mechanisms Loops Chapter 3: Function Basics Predefined Functions Programmer-Defined Functions Scope Rules Chapter 4: Parameters and Overloading Parameters Overloading and Default Arguments Testing and Debugging Functions Chapter 5: Arrays Introduction to Arrays Arrays in Functions Programming with Arrays Multidimensional Arrays Chapter 6: Structures and Classes Structures Classes Chapter 7: Constructors and Other Tools Constructors More Tools Vectors--A Preview of the Standard Template Library Chapter 8: Operator Overloading, Friends, and References Basic Operator Overloading Friend Functions and Automatic Type Conversion References and More Overloaded Operators Chapter 9: Strings An Array Type for Strings Character Manipulation Tools The Standard Class string Chapter 10: Pointers and Dynamic Arrays Pointers Dynamic Arrays Classes, Pointers, and Dynamic Arrays Chapter 11: Separate Compilation and Namespaces Separate Compilation Namespaces Chapter 12: Streams and File I/O I/O Streams Tools for Stream I/O Stream Hierarchies: A Preview of Inheritance Random Access to Files Chapter 13: Recursion Recursive void Functions Recursive Functions that Return a Value Thinking Recursively Chapter 14: Inheritance Inheritance Basics Programming with Inheritance Chapter 15: Polymorphism and Virtual Functions Virtual Function Basics Pointers and Virtual Functions Chapter 16: Templates Function Templates Class Templates Templates and Inheritance Chapter 17: Linked Data Structures Nodes and Linked Lists Linked List Applications Iterators Trees Chapter 18: Exception Handling Exception Handling Basics Programming Techniques for Exception Handling Chapter 19: Standard Template Library Iterators Containers Generic Algorithms Chapter 20: Patterns and UML Patterns UML Appendix 1: C++ Keywords Appendix 2: Precedence of Operators Appendix 3: The ASCII Character Set Appendix 4: Some Library Functions Appendix 5: Old and New Header Files Further Reading Index

About the Author

Walter Savitch is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of California at San Diego. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. Since that time he has been on the faculty of the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). He served as director of the UCSD Interdisciplinary PhD program in Cognitive Science for over ten years. He has served as a visiting researcher at the Computer Science departments of the University of Washington in Seattle and and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and has been a visiting scholar at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica in Amsterdam.