Discover the philosophy of object-oriented programming through C++ with this unique guide.

- No prior programming knowledge is required

- Intended for both beginner and experienced programmers

- Contains illustrative examples, explanatory comments, and exercises

- Includes a free CD-ROM.

The book covers, among other topics, the following:

• Data types, expressions, control statements, and loops
• Functions
• Pointers and arrays
• Classes and objects
• Operator and function overloading
• Inheritance - derived and base classes
• Input/output streams - file handling
• Recursion and recursive functions
• Search and sorting algorithms
• Dynamic memory management
• Extensive reference on dynamic data structures - linked lists, binary trees, and their implementation in C++
• Class and function templates
• Exceptions and error handling
• Namespaces.

The accompanying CD contains the complete development environment DEV C++, the code for most of the programs presented in the book, and the answers to all exercises.