Fundamentals of C++ Programming

This book does not attempt to cover all the facets of the C++ programming language. Experienced programmers should look elsewhere for books that cover C++ in much more detail. The focus here is on introducing programming techniques and developing good habits.

To that end, our approach avoids some of the more esoteric features of C++ and concentrates on the programming basics that transfer directly to other imperative programming languages such as Java, C#, and Python. We stick with the basics and explore more advanced features of C++ only when necessary to handle the problem at hand.
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Contents

• The Context of Software Development
• Software
• Development Tools
• Learning Programming with C++
• Summary
• Exercises
• Writing a C++ Program
• General Structure of a Simple C++ Program
• Compiling the source code
• Variations of our simple program
• Template for simple C++ programs
• Summary
• Exercises
• Values and Variables
• Integer Values
• Variables and Assignment
• Identifiers
• Floating-point Types
• Constants
• Other Numeric Types
• Characters
• Enumerated Types
• Type Inference with auto
• Exercises
• Expressions and Arithmetic
• Expressions
• Mixed Type Expressions
• Operator Precedence and Associativity
• Comments
• Formatting
• Errors and Warnings
• Compile-time Errors
• Run-time Errors
• Logic Errors
• Compiler Warnings
• Arithmetic Examples
• More Arithmetic Operators
• Algorithms
• Summary
• Exercises
• Conditional Execution
• Type bool
• Boolean Expressions
• The Simple if Statement
• Compound Statements
• The if/else Statement
• Compound Boolean Expressions
• Nested Conditionals
• Multi-way if/else Statements
• Errors in Conditional Statements
• Summary
• Exercises
• Iteration
• The while Statement
• Nested Loops
• Abnormal Loop Termination
• The break statement
• The goto Statement
• The continue Statement
• Infinite Loops
• Iteration Examples
• Drawing a Tree
• Printing Prime Numbers
• Summary
• Exercises
• Other Conditional and Iterative Statements
• The switch Statement
• The Conditional Operator
• The do/while Statement
• The for Statement
• Summary
• Exercises
• Using Functions
• Introduction to Using Functions
• Standard Math Functions
• Maximum and Minimum
• clock Function
• Character Functions
• Random Numbers
• Summary
• Exercises
• Writing Functions
• Function Basics
• Using Functions
• Call by Value
• Function Examples
• Better Organized Prime Generator