- Copyright
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Letter from a Novice
- Introduction to Programming
- Hardware Fundamentals
- Basics of Programming
- Definitions
- Objectives of This Chapter
- Rapid and Accurate Calculation
- The Compiler
- How the CPU Stores and Manipulates Data in Memory
- The Layout of Data in Memory
- Exercises, First Set
- The char and string Types
- using, namespace, and std
- int main()
- Exercises, Second Set
- Input and Output
- Changing the Course of Execution
- The while Loop
- Exercises, Third Set
- Our First Slightly Realistic Program
- Exercises, Fourth Set
- Review
- Conclusion
- Answers to Exercises
- More Basics
- Functional Literacy
- Taking Inventory
- Definitions
- Objectives of This Chapter
- User-defined Data Types
- The StockItem class
- More Definitions
- Concrete Data Types
- The class Scope
- More about the StockItem class Interface
- Working around the Standard Library
- Reference Arguments
- Checking Inventory for a Misplaced Item
- Review
- Exercises
- Conclusion
- Answers to Exercises
- Creating a Homegrown string class
- Objectives of This Chapter
- C String Literals vs. strings
- Dynamic Memory Allocation via new and delete
- Constructing a string from a C String
- Assignment Operator Issues
- Solving the Assignment Operator Problem
- The const Modifier for Reference Arguments
- Calling operator=
- Review
- Exercises
- Conclusion
- Answers to Exercises
- Finishing Our homegrown string class
- Inheritance
- Polymorphism
- Definitions
- Objectives of This Chapter
- Introduction to Polymorphism
- Exercises, First Set
- Polymorphic Objects
- More Definitions
- Why We Need Polymorphic Objects
- Implementing Safe Polymorphism
- Reimplementing the Standard Member Functions for the New Version of StockItem
- Avoiding an Infinite Regress During Construction
- Reference Counting
- Sharing a Worker Object
- Why We Need m_Count in StockItem
- Review
- Exercises, Second Set
- Conclusion
- The Home Inventory Project
- Definitions
- Objectives of This Chapter
- Data Items for the Home Inventory Project
- The Manager/Worker Idiom Again
- Hiding Unnecessary Information from the class User
- Saving the Number of the Elements in the File
- Creating a Data File Programmatically
- Adding the Ability to Edit a Record
- The New Member Functions of HomeItemMusic
- Review
- Exercises
- Conclusion
- More on the Home Inventory Project
- Definitions
- Objectives of This Chapter
- Extending the Functionality of strings
- How to Implement Our New string Functionality
- The Include Guard
- Lessons of the xstring class Implementation
- Case-Insensitive Searching
- Searching for an Item by a Substring
- Putting It All Together
- How Software Development Really Works
- Review
- Conclusion
- Analyzing the Home Inventory Project
- Tying up Loose Ends
- Glossary
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- About the CD-ROM
- Index
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